RIT Tigers women's ice hockey

The RIT Tigers women's ice hockey team is one of two hockey teams representing Rochester Institute of Technology in suburban Rochester, New York. The team moved to NCAA Division I women's ice hockey as a member of College Hockey America after many years at Division III as part of the ECAC West conference. The Bruce B. Bates Women's Hockey Coach is former RIT player and captain Celeste Brown.

RIT Tigers
Current season
UniversityRochester Institute of Technology
ConferenceCHA
Head coachCeleste Brown
1st season, 0–0–0
ArenaGene Polisseni Center
Capacity: 4,300
LocationHenrietta, New York
Student sectionRIT Corner Crew
ColorsOrange, White, and Black[1]
              
NCAA Tournament championships
Division III: 2012
NCAA Tournament Frozen Four
Division III: 2011, 2012
NCAA Tournament appearances
Division III: 2007, 2011, 2012
Division I: 2015
Conference Tournament championships
ECAC West: 2011, 2012
CHA: 2014, 2015
Conference regular season championships
ECAC West: 2011, 2012

History

RIT added women's varsity hockey for the 1975–1976 season. After many years in the ECAC East, RIT moved to the ECAC West league for the 2007–08 season. The team made three NCAA tournament appearances at the Division III level, in 2007, 2011, and 2012, with a record of 5–2 in tournament games. They lost their lone game in the 2007 campaign to Amherst College. In their 2011 campaign, the lady Tigers lost at home, in the Frozen Four final, to Norwich University.

In 2012, the Tigers won their first national championship, on home ice, against Norwich University. It was the third-ever national championship for RIT's athletic program and first in women's sports.[2][3]

On March 20, 2012, RIT announced that the women's team would move up to Division I for the 2012–13 season, as the men's team did six years prior. The Tigers joined the College Hockey America conference.[4][5]

After a successful first season at the division I level going 16–16–5, even after losing their first DI game 6–2 to the Mercyhurst Lakers, the Tigers advanced to the CHA semifinals where they fell to the Syracuse Orange 2–1 in overtime. The next season was yet another season to remember. The Tigers participated in the Frozen Frontier. A 10-day hockey festival at Rochester's Frontier Field. The Tigers fell to Clarkson University 6–2. The Tigers went on to win 11 out of their last 18 to win the CHA championship 2–1 in double overtime against the team that defeated them in their first ever division I game, the Mercyhurst Lakers.

In 2014–15, their first season at the 4,300-seat Gene Polisseni Center, the Tigers went 15–19–5 and finished in last place in the CHA. But they won every game in the 2015 CHA Tournament, beating Robert Morris, Mercyhurst, and then Syracuse, 2–1 in double overtime, to capture their second straight CHA championship. The trophy this year came with the CHA's first-ever automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, where the Tigers fell 2–6 to the eventual champions, #2 Minnesota.

In 2015, Bruce Bates, an MIT trustee emeritus ad women's ice hockey season ticket holder, donated RIT's first athletic endowment to the women's ice hockey team, to support the head coach position.[6]

On July 10, 2018, it was announced that long-time head coach Scott McDonald would be stepping down as head coach of the women's hockey team. He left as the all-time victory leader for the women's team, compiling a 205-154-29 record in 12 seasons.[7] Chad Davis was announced as his replacement on August 22, 2018[8] with former Buffalo Beauts player Hannah McGowan being hired as assistant coach.[9] On April 30, 2020, it was reported that RIT parted ways with Davis and McGowan as coaches. Davis compiled a 24-37-9 record in two seasons as head coach.[10]

On July 17, 2020, former RIT women's hockey player and captain Celeste Brown was named the next head coach of the program.[11][12]


Year by year
Won Championship Lost Championship Conference Champions League Leader
YearCoachWLTConferenceConf.
W		Conf.
L		Conf.
T		FinishConference PlayoffsNCAA Tournament
2019–20Chad Davis12194CHA51325th CHALost First Round vs. Penn State (1–4)Did Not Qualify
2018–19Chad Davis12185CHA81115th CHALost First Round vs. Penn State (1–4)Did Not Qualify
2017–18Scott McDonald4283CHA11906th CHALost First Round vs. Syracuse (1–5)Did Not Qualify
2016–17Scott McDonald7272CHA41426th CHAWon First Round vs. Penn State (2–1)
Lost Semifinals vs. Syracuse (0-4)		Did Not Qualify
2015–16Scott McDonald8271CHA41516th CHALost First Round vs. Penn State (0-2, 2–3)Did Not Qualify
2014–15Scott McDonald15195CHA51236th CHAWon First Round vs. Robert Morris (3–1, 1–0)
Won Semifinals vs. Mercyhurst (4–1)
Won Championship vs. Syracuse (2–1 2OT)		Lost in First Round vs. Minnesota (2–6)
2013–14Scott McDonald20153CHA11723rd CHAWon First Round vs. Penn State (3–2 OT, 2–0)
Won Semifinals vs. Robert Morris (4–1)
Won Championship vs. Mercyhurst (2–1 2OT)		Ineligible (transition year)
2012–13Scott McDonald16165CHA7853rd CHAWon First Round vs. Penn State (1–0, 3–2 OT)
Lost Semifinals vs. Syracuse (1–2 OT)		Ineligible (transition year)
2011–12Scott McDonald2811D-III ECAC West16111st ECAC WestWon in Semifinal vs. Potsdam (6–1)
Won Championship vs. Plattsburgh (5–1)		Won in First Round vs. Concordia (Minn.) (5–2)
Won in Frozen Four vs. Plattsburgh (2–1 OT)
Won Championship vs. Norwich (4–1)
2010–11Scott McDonald2622D-III ECAC West15121st ECAC WestWon in Semifinal vs. Utica (2–0)
Won Championship vs. Plattsburgh (2–1)		Won in First Round vs. Adrian (10–1)
Won in Frozen Four vs. Middlebury (5–2)
Lost in Championship vs. Norwich (2–5)
2009–10Scott McDonald1953D-III ECAC West13323rd ECAC WestWon in First Round vs. Potsdam (5–0)
Lost in Semifinals vs. Elmira (1–2 OT)		Did not qualify

Award winners

Laura Hurd Award winners
  • 2011: Sarah Dagg '11

ECAC West

Tournament MVP
  • 2011: Kourtney Kunichika '14
  • 2012: Kim Schlattman '13

College Hockey America
  • Mackenzie Stone – RIT, 2016–17 CHA Best Defensive Forward[13]
  • Caitlin Wallace – RIT, 2016–17 CHA Individual Sportsmanship[14]
  • Lindsay Grigg – RIT, 2014–15 CHA Best Defensive Forward[15]
  • Taylor Thurston – RIT, 2014–15 CHA Individual Sportsmanship[16]

Weekly Honors
  • Cassie Clayton, CHA Player of the Week (Week of March 9, 2015)[17]
  • Ali Binnington, CHA Goaltender of the Week (Week of March 9, 2015)

All-Star Honors
  • Terra Lanteigne – RIT, 2016–17 CHA All-Rookie Team[18]
  • Reagan Rust: 2015–16 CHA CHA All-Rookie Team[19]
  • Christa Vulglar: 2014–15 CHA CHA All-Rookie Team[20]

Tournament All-Stars
  • Ali Binnington, 2015 CHA Tournament MVP
  • Cassie Clayton, 2015 CHA All-Tournament Team
  • Lindsay Grigg, 2015 CHA All-Tournament Team
  • Morgan Scoyne, 2015 CHA All-Tournament Team

Player histories

Sarah Dagg was recognized as the 2011 ECAC West Player of the Year after contributing to the Tigers program-record 26 wins. In addition, she helped the Tigers to their first conference regular season and post-season championships. Her points total for the season was 18 goals and 24 assists in 30 games.

In her senior season, Dagg advanced to the 2011 NCAA Division III Championship game. In her four seasons at RIT, the Tigers accumulated a won-loss record of 85–17–7, while finishing as the Tigers all-time leading scorer. Her career totals stand at 63 goals and 91 assists, while competing in 109 games. She is the Tigers all-time assists leader while recording three consecutive forty point seasons. In addition, she is second all-time at RIT with 20 power-play goals, while she stands tied at first place in shorthanded goals with nine.

CWHL Draft picks
PlayerDraft yearSelectionTeam
Sarah Dagg2011 CWHL Draft16Burlington Barracudas
Katie Stack2011 CWHL Draft23Toronto Furies
Erin Zach2016 CWHL Draft32Toronto Furies
Jetta Rackleff2016 CWHL Draft52Brampton Thunder

Professional signings

See also

References
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