St. Lawrence Skating Saints women's ice hockey

The St. Lawrence Saints represent St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. The Saints play at Appleton Arena and are part of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. In 2001, St. Lawrence all participated in the inaugural NCAA Championship tournament. Their current head coach is St. Lawrence alumna Chris Wells, who is in his second season, and has an record of 39 wins, 23 losses and 10 ties.

History

Beginning as a club team, the women's program has seen great success since entering Division-I in 1997. Currently, the team has made five Frozen Four appearances in the eight years since the creation of a Women's NCAA Division-I tournament. With the women's appearance in inaugural Frozen Four (2001), St. Lawrence became the first school to have both their men and women's programs in the NCAA Division-I ice hockey tournament in the same year.^[1] The women's team also recorded the first ever win in the history of the NCAA Women's Frozen Four.^[2]

The first women's hockey game was played in 1974, as a club program. The women's team transitioned to a Division-III program in 1979, and won three consecutive ECAC Division-III tournaments in 1990, 1991, and 1992.^[3]

Following the 2007-08 season, Head Coach Paul Flanagan left St. Lawrence to a position with Syracuse University. Flanagan was the women's program's all-time winningest coach with a nine-season record of 230-83-24. Then Men's Associate Head Coach, Chris Wells was appointed to replace him^[4] and in his first season coached the team to a berth in the national championship tournament with a record of 24-11-3.

Year by year

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Coaches

Olympians

• Isabelle Chartrand
• Gina Kingsbury, 2006 and 2010 Olympics^[6]
• Former St. Lawrence University assistant women's hockey coach Jodi McKenna was an assistant for Team USA at the 2010 Olympics, which won the silver medal.

• When Gina Kingsbury won her first gold medal with Canada in 2006, she became the third St. Lawrence alumnus-athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. Her jersey number for Canada is 27, the same number that she had while skating for St. Lawrence. Fellow hockey player, Isabelle Chartrand was the second St. Lawrence alumnus who won an Olympic gold medal (doing so with Canada’s women in 2002). The first St. Lawrence alum was Ed Rimkus, who won gold in 1932.^[7]

Notable players

• Isabelle Chartrand
• Sabrina Harbec
• Gina Kingsbury, (remains in the University's top-5 in career points (152) and goals (74)) and holds the school record with nine points in a game (4 goals, 5 assists)

Scoring leaders

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Awards and honors

• Rachel Barrie, Goalie, 2002 ECAC North First Team
• Rachel Barrie, 2002 ECAC-North Goalie of the Year^[9]
• Rachel Barrie, 2003 Sarah Devens Award ^[10]
• Brittony Chartier, 2010 Frozen Four Skills Competition participant^[11]
• Alison Domenico, 2009 ECAC Best Defensive Forward ^[12]
• Alison Domenico, Forward, 2009 Second Team All-ECAC
• Jamie Goldsmith, ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of October 12, 2009)^[13]
• Sabrina Harbec, 2007 ECAC All-Tournament team^[14]
• Gina Kingsbury, Forward, 2002 ECAC North First Team
• Gina Kingsbury, two-time ECAC All-Conference
• Marianna Locke, 2009 Sarah Devens Award ^[15]
• Meghan Maguire, Defense, 2002 ECAC North Second Team
• Kelly Sabatine, ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of October 19, 2009)^[16]
• Britni Smith, Defense, 2009 Second Team All-ECAC ^[17]
• Britni Smith, Pre-Season 2009-10 All-ECAC Team^[18]
• Britni Smith, 2010 Frozen Four Skills Competition participant
• Kayla Sullivan, ^[19], ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of October 26, 2009)

All-America honors

• Gina Kingsbury, All-America honors (2004)
• Rebecca Russell, All-America honors (2005)^[20]
• Sabrina Harbec, First Team All-America selection (2006)^[21]
• Annie Guay, Second Team All-America selection (2006)
• Sabrina Harbec, All-America honors (2007)
• Annie Guay, All-America honors (2007)
• Sabrina Harbec, All-America honors (2008)
• Annie Guay, All-America honors (2008)^[22]

Patty Kazmaier Award finalists

In 2006, Harbec was a top three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. She was the first St. Lawrence player to be a finalist for the award.^[23]

See also

• List of college women's ice hockey coaches with 250 wins (Paul Flanagan ranks ninth on all-time list)

References