Jack Skille
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Jack Skille, born May 19, 1987, is an American collegiate ice hockey player. He is a member of the University of Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team. The highly-regarded forward was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks with the seventh overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Skille was the third in the group of eight U.S.-born players that were selected in the first round, surpassing the previous record of seven Americans selected in the first round in 1986 and 2003.
Skille, a Madison, Wisconsin native, is the son of Lee and Carrie. Father Lee skated at Wisconsin in the mid-1970s. Skille has two sisters, Maggie (20) and Claire (12). He attended Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Verona Area High School in Verona, Wis.
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Although Skille is only in his freshman campaign as a Badger, he has made an immediate impact. He leads all Badger freshmen in scoring with 12 goals and 7 assists for a total 19 points. He is the eighth-leading point getter for the whole team. Skille’s goal 11:13 into the third overtime propelled the No. 1 seed Wisconsin men’s hockey team past Cornell 1-0 Sunday in the NCAA Midwest Regional Final at the Resch Center and into the team’s first Frozen Four since 1992.
Prior to joining the Badgers was a member of the USA Hockey-sponsored National Development Team. He won gold medal at the 2005 World U-18 Championship in the Czech Republic collecting a goals and three assists in six games at the championship. Skille collected 24 goals, 31 assists and 55 points in 54 games for the U.S. Under-18 Team during 2004–05 and was whistled for 76 penalty minutes during the season. In international play as a NDTP player, Skille had tournament-best seven points to lead Team USA to first place at Four Nations Cup in Ann Arbor, Mich. and led tournament with eight points as U.S. team placed first at Five Nations Tournament in Tjorn, Sweden. He split the 2003–04 season with the U.S. Under-17 Team and U.S. Under-18 Team, playing in 61 games total, posted 25 goals, 19 assists and 44 points to go along with 61 penalty minutes. He also had a goal and an assist to help U.S. Under-18 Team to silver at 2004 World U-18 Championship in Minsk, Belarus.
