The Two-Minute Minor - An Edition of the Penalty Box Post
Friday, February 25
Seven Gophers named to 2021-2022 All-WCHA teams;
10 honored as WCHA Scholar-Athletes, 15 on All-Academic Team
It's been a busy week with multiple announcements from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The league yesterday named its 2021-2022 All-WCHA Teams for their on-ice performance. We congratulate the seven (7) Gopher players named to the teams (and pictured above, left-to-right):
First Team – Taylor Heise
Second Team – Abigail Boreen
Third Team – Emily Brown & Madeline Wethington
Rookie Team – Peyton Hemp, Ella Huber & Emily Zumwinkle
Those on-ice honors follow two academic-based announcements. Ten (10) members of the Gopher Women's Hockey team were named among 83 players honored as WCHA Scholar-Athlete Award winners on Tuesday.
Emily Brown was named a Scholar-Athlete for the fourth time while Gracie Ostertag (pictured right) earned her third award. Olivia King, Emily Oden, Catie Skaja, and Madeline Wethington each became two-time honorees, while Lauren Bench, Josey Dunne, Maggie Nicholson, and Audrey Wethington earned their first scholar-athlete awards.
Those ten plus Abigail Boreen, Taylor Heise, Crystalyn Hengler, Olivia Knowles, and Makayla Pahl were honored as WCHA All-Academic Team members on Wednesday. Brown & Knowles (pictured left) earned their fourth All-Academic team selections, while Heise, Oden, Ostertag, and Skaja became three-time selections. Boreen, Hengler, King, Pahl, and Madeline Wethington each earned their second honors, while Bench, Dunne, Nicholson, and Audrey Wethington are first-time members.
Per the press releases from the league: To earn recognition as a WCHA Scholar-Athlete, league-member student-athletes must have completed at least one year of residency at their present institution prior to the current academic year and must also have a grade-point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.0 scale for the previous two semesters or three quarters or may qualify if their overall GPA is at least 3.50 for all terms at his or her present institution. The WCHA All-Academic Team includes student-athletes who have completed one year of eligibility at their present institution, prior to the academic year, and have a GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in the previous two semesters or three quarters.
Congratulations and good job, ladies!!
PWHPA teams to compete in showcases this & next weekend
The Professional Women's Hockey Players Association's Secret® Dream Gap Tour is scheduled to continue this weekend (February 26 & 27) with a four-team showcase at the Nepean Sportsplex in Ottawa, Ontario. The organization then heads from one national capital to another, as the Washington, DC, region hosts a second showcase at the MedStar Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Va., on March 4-6.
The Sonnet Showcase will feature Team Sonnet (Toronto region), Team adidas (Minnesota), Team Bauer (Boston), and Team Harvey's (Montreal), with Team Sonnet & Team adidas playing the first semifinal tomorrow (Feb. 26) at Noon ET / 11 a.m. CT, followed by Team Bauer vs. Team Harvey's at 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. CT. Those games will be webcast on cbcsports.ca. The championship game will be played Sunday (Feb. 27) at 11 a.m. ET / 10 a.m. CT, with video on Sportsnet's Tiktok channel. A consolation game will follow on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 p.m. CT.
The Capitals PWHPA Showcase will feature Team Sonnet, Team adidas, Team Bauer, and Team Scotiabank (Calgary), with Team Bauer vs. Team Sonnet on Friday, March 4, at 5:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. CT, and Team adidas vs. Team Scotiabank on Saturday, March 5 at 1:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 p.m. CT. On Sunday, March 6, a consolation game will be played at 10:30 a.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. CT, with the championship contest at 1:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 p.m. CT. All games will be available for streaming on the Washington Capitals' Facebook and Twitter.
No official rosters for the two showcases have been announced at this time, but the training rosters include Gopher Women's Hockey alumnae Gigi Marvin & Sydney Scobee as Team adidas members and Sarah Potomak on Team Scotiabank. We wish them all good luck in these events.
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