Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey

Yale University women's ice hockey (YWIH) is an NCAA Division I varsity ice hockey program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey
Current season
UniversityYale University
ConferenceECAC
Head coachMark Bolding
2 season, 17–15–0
ArenaIngalls Rink
Capacity: 3,500
LocationNew Haven, Connecticut
ColorsYale Blue and White
   

One of the oldest varsity women's ice hockey programs in the country, Yale women's ice hockey dates back to 1975. Beginning as a club sport, the program gained varsity team status in 1977–78.[1]

Yale competes in the ECAC Hockey League (ECACHL), along with Ivy League foes Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown. Both the Yale men's and women's ice-hockey teams play at Ingalls Rink, also known as "The Whale".

Coaches

The current head coach is Mark Bolding, who took over the helm in April 2019. He is the 11th head coach for Yale. In his first season with the team, the Bulldogs set a program record with 17 wins, including 13 conference wins, also a school record, beating the previous record set in 2004-2005. The season included a six-game winning streak, the longest in program history. Bolding came to the Bulldogs after serving as the head coach for the Norwich University women's ice hockey team.[2]

Joakim Flygh coached the Bulldogs from 2010 until 2019. In 2014-2015, the team tied the school's record for conference wins with 12, and finished with the second highest number of goals scored (93). Prior to taking on head coaching responsibilities at Yale, Flygh was an assistant coach at Harvard and University of Minnesota-Duluth. Flygh resigned as head coach in February 2019. [3]

Hilary Witt was the head coach from 2002 to 2010. Witt was named ECAC Women's Coach of the Year in 2002–03, and became Yale's all-time leader in wins in 2005. The 2004–05 squad set the school record for overall wins (16) and conference wins (12), earning a trip to the ECAC semifinals for the first time. The 2007–08 team broke the school record for goals in a season with 96 and finished with the second-most wins in school history, 15.[4]

History

Yale University debuted its women’s ice hockey program on December 9, 1975. Its first match was versus Choate-Rosemary Hall. The Bulldogs prevailed by a 5–3 tally. Two years later, the Bulldogs hockey program would attain varsity status.[5]

Laurie Belliveau played for Yale from 1994–1998. In four years, she participated in 98 games. Statistically, she logged 5,809 minutes, recorded 4,262 saves, and registered a .911 save percentage while posting a 4.32 goals against average. She has averaged more than 43 saves per game. In 1994–95, Belliveau became the first freshman in any sport to earn Ivy League Player of the Year honors. During the season, she made an ECAC record 78 saves in a game. The opponent was the Providence Friars women's ice hockey program.[6]

In 1998, Laurie Belliveau was one of two Ivy League players named first team All-Americans.[6] This was the first time that Ivy League women's hockey players were bestowed such an honor.

Hillary Witt was hired as head coach for the 2002-2003 season, after working as the assistant coach for one season. The Bulldogs had a stand-out year in 2004-2005, with a program high 16 wins overall and 12 conference wins. The following year, they set the all time record for goals scored. Witt left at the end of the 2009-2010 season.

On April 3, 2011, Yale player Mandi Schwartz succumbed to recurrent acute myeloid leukemia at age 23.[7] She was a forward on Yale's women's hockey team and had a string of 73 consecutive games played.[7] In her honor, the Yale Bulldogs introduced the Mandi Schwartz Award in April 2011. The annual award is given in acknowledgement of a Yale Bulldog player’s courage, grit and determination. Aleca Hughes was named as the first winner.[8] On what would have been her 24th birthday, the ECAC renamed its Student-Athlete of the Year Award in honor of Schwartz.[9]

YWIH participates in Bulldog PAWS, a program at Yale New Haven Hospital that teams children with brain tumors with one of the Yale Athletic Teams. In 2011, they adopted a nine-year-old girl, Giana, with a brain tumor; she went to all of their home games. Alyssa Zupon was instrumental in developing the partnership.[10]

The Bulldogs broke the previous program record of wins and conference wins in the 2019-2020 season. They finished 17-15-0 over all, and 13-9-0 in conference play. They played perennial rival Harvard in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament. After an opening game loss, they won the second game in overtime. In the tie-breaker, they lost in triple overtime by a score of 3-2.

In July 2020, the Ivy League announced that league play would be suspended in Fall 2020 due to the 20202 coronavirus pandemic.[11]


Year by year
Won Championship Lost Championship Conference Champions League Leader
YearCoachWLTConferenceConf.
W		Conf.
L		Conf.
T		FinishConference TournamentNCAA Tournament
2019-20Mark Bolding17150ECAC13905th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard (1-4,4-3 (OT), 3-4 (3OT))Cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus pandemic
2018–19Joakim Flygh8183ECAC71239th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2017–18Joakim Flygh10174ECAC81228th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Clarkson (1-10, 1-4)Did not qualify
2016–17Joakim Flygh10174ECAC81227th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. St. Lawrence (1-4, 0-4)Did not qualify
2015–16Joakim Flygh10172ECAC91129th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2014–15Joakim Flygh15151ECAC121007th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard (1–2, 0–3)Did not qualify
2013–14Joakim Flygh9167ECAC6977th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard (3–2 2OT, 2–3 2OT, 0–4)Did not qualify
2012–13Joakim Flygh5213ECAC415310th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2011–12Joakim Flygh1271ECAC120112th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2010–11Joakim Flygh9173ECAC812210th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2009–10Hilary Witt10163ECAC813110th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2008–09Hilary Witt12161ECAC81319th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2007–08Hilary Witt11146ECAC81047th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. St. Lawrence (1–2 OT, 2–3 OT)Did not qualify
2006–07Hilary Witt15142ECAC101027th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard (1–3, 1–2)Did not qualify
2005–06Hilary Witt11155ECAC8848th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. St. Lawrence (3–6, 2–6)Did not qualify
2004–05Hilary Witt16151ECAC12714th ECACWon Quarterfinals vs. Princeton (4–3 OT, 4–2)
Lost Semifinals vs. Harvard (1–2)		Did not qualify
2003–04Hilary Witt12163ECAC81006th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Dartmouth (0–4, 3–4)Did not qualify
2002–03Hilary Witt9202ECAC51106th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Princeton (2–6, 0–8)Did not qualify
2001–02John Marchetti9193ECAC31217th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Brown (0–5, 0–7)Did not qualify
2000–01John Marchetti3232ECAC221112th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
1999–2000John Marchetti6221ECAC221112th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
1998–99John Marchetti5213ECAC221313th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
1997–98John Marchetti7192
1996–97Joe Snecinski4230
1995–96Joe Snecinski2203
1994–95Joe Snecinski3210
1993–94Joe Snecinski4161
1992–93Joe Snecinski4141
1991–92Barry Curseaden6131
1990–91Barry Curseaden5130
1989–90Barry Curseaden4121
1988–89Vic Russo5111
1987–88Vic Russo7110
1986–87Dave Beecher5140
1985–86Kathy Lenahan1280
1984–85Kathy Lenahan1091
1983–84Peter Downey891
1982–83Peter Downey3151
1981–82Tyler Benson4100
1980–81Tyler Benson670
1979–80Tyler Benson850
1978–79Tyler Benson861
1977–78Tyler Benson751

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International
  • Hilary Witt was a member of the U.S. Women's National Team in 2001
  • Hilary Witt also earned a pair of silver medals as an assistant coach for the U.S. at the 2006 Four Nations Cup and the 2007 IIHF World Championships.
  • Helen Resor played at the 2006 Four Nations Cup and the 2005, 2007 and 2008 IIHF World Championships.
  • Helen Resor, Crysti Howser and Sheila Zingler were at the 2007 USA Hockey Women's National Festival, meaning that the 2006–07 Yale team tied for the most representatives at the camp among all ECAC schools.


Olympians
  • Helen Resor was selected to play for Team USA in the 2006 Olympics.[13] Resor was the first Bulldog to achieve that status, and when she won a bronze medal she became the first Yale hockey player of either gender to earn a medal since five Bulldog men won silver with Team USA in 1932.
  • Denise Soesilo was the second Yale women’s hockey player to compete in the Olympics. She played for Team Germany.[14]
  • Phoebe Stanz played for Switzerland's national team, winning a bronze medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Awards and honors
  • Laurie Belliveau, three-time Ivy League Player of the Year
  • Laurie Belliveau, Goaltender, 1996 All-ECAC Team[15]
  • Laurie Belliveau, Nellie Pratt Elliott Award[6]
  • Laurie Belliveau, Finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, 1998[16]
  • Jenna Ciotti, Hockey East Player of the Week (Week of February 8, 2011)[17]
  • Jenna Ciotti, Hockey East Rookie of the Week (Week of February 8, 2011)
  • Alyssa Clarke, Honorable Mention All-Ivy League, 2007–08, Defenseman, Yale (Sophomore)
  • Erika Hockinson, Yale's Thomas W. Ford '42 Community Outreach Award
  • Aleca Hughes, 2012 Sarah Devens Award
  • Crysti Howser, Honorable Mention All-Ivy League, 2007–08, Forward, Yale (Junior)
  • Kelsey Johnson, finalist for the inaugural ECAC Student-Athlete of the Year Award (2007)
  • Bray Ketchum, nominee for the 2010 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award [18]
  • Helen Resor, Defense, 2009 Third Team All-ECAC [19]
  • Helen Resor, finalist for the 2009 Patty Kazmaier Award [20]
  • Kristin Savard, Hockey Humanitarian Award (2007)
  • Kristin Savard, Yale's Thomas W. Ford '42 Community Outreach Award
  • Jackee Snikeris, Honorable Mention All-Ivy League, 2007–08, Goaltender, (Freshman) [21]
  • Jackee Snikeris, nominee for the 2010 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award[22]
  • Jackee Snikeris, MLX Skates Goaltender of the Week (Week of November 30, 2010)[23]
  • Jackee Snikeris, 2010–11 ECAC Goaltender of the Year[24]
  • Jackee Snikeris, 2010–11 ECAC Women's Student-Athlete of the Year[25]
  • Jackee Snikeris, 2011 Sarah Devens Award[25]
  • Rebecca Vanstone ECAC All Rookie Team

ECAC All-Academic

Hockey Humanitarian award finalists
  • Julianna Schantz-Dunn, 2000
  • Deanna McDevitt 2003
  • Kristin Savard 2007 (who won the award)
  • Crysti Howser 2009
  • Aleca Hughes, 2011[28] and 2012 (winner)[29]

Ivy League honors
  • Alyssa Clarke, Defense, Senior, 2010 Honorable Mention
  • Bray Ketchum, Forward, Junior, 2010 Second Team All-Ivy
  • Jackee Snikeris, Goaltender, Junior, 2010 First Team All-Ivy[30]
  • Rebecca Vanstone, Forward, First year, 2020 Second Team All-Ivy
  • Emma Seitz, Defense, First Year, 2020 Second Team All-Ivy

New England hockey writers All-Star Team
  • 2003–04 G Sarah Love
  • 2004–05 D Erin Duggan
  • 2006–07 D Helen Resor
  • 2010–11 G Jackee Snikeris[31]

USCHO honors
  • Erin Duggan, 2004–05 All USCHO.com First Team
  • Helen Resor, 2004–05 All USCHO.com Rookie Team[32]

See also

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