2023-24 Worcester State University Women's Ice Hockey News
Westfield, MA — A total of 1,005 student-athletes have been honored by the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference with selection to the league’s Winter/Spring 2024 All-Academic team that was released earlier today by Commissioner Angela Baumann.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team had one selected to the 2024 Academic All-District At-Large Team. Senior Ellen Cook (Becket, MA) was selected to the team by the College Sports Communicators.
Today, the New England Division II-III honorees are being announced for both men and women.
While February is the shortest month of the calendar year, many significant events are celebrated within its days. This year the Chinese Lunar New Year has landed in February while the entire month is focused on celebrating Black History Month; celebrating Black achievement and giving visibility to the people and organizations creating change. For those who love and support one of America's most popular sports, the Super Bowl takes place in February along with National Girls and Women in Sports Day. The month of February wraps up the winter sports season and brings in the Spring. March sees the infamous March Madness Tournament and all the iconic memories that have come from that, but even more vital is March is Women’s History Month, which is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history. This pivotal month actually just started as an annual weekly celebration, but with the continued support and recognition of the importance of Women in Society, the Week quickly grew to encompass the entire month.
Worcester, MA- Worcester State University graduate-student forward, Katie Puumala (Framingham, MA) earned Player of the Year honors after amassing a league best, twenty-one points on eleven goals and ten assists in ECHA play. Puumala led the ECHA in both goals and points on the 2023-24 season, including the game tying goal in Sunday’s Championship victory over Rivier University.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (12-13-1, 9-2-1) looks to complete the three peat sweep of the ECHA tournament in the conference’s final season of action before the teams move to the MASCAC for the 2024-25 season. The Lancers have won the previous two championships, defeating the Anna Maria AMCATs 2-1 in the inaugural season and 3-2 last year. This championship will see the Lancers square up with a new contender after Rivier (12-10-3, 6-4-2) defeated the AMCATs in overtime on Friday night in a 1-0 battle.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (11-13-1, 9-2-1) begin their bid for their third straight ECHA title, this year opening up tournament play by taking on 4th seeded MCLA (5-18-1, 1-10-1), who are the new additions to the conference this year. In the final year of the ECHA conference, the Lancers look to claim the bragging rights as the lone champions of the conference, before all the teams move to the newly created MASCAC Women’s Ice Hockey conference next year.
Worcester, MA- In the final ECHA Players of the Week, Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey’s Kelsey Czerniawski (Chicopee, MA) claims the ECHA Goalie of the Week honor.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Lancers (10-13-1, 8-2-1) headed across town to Buffone rink tonight to take on the Anna Maria AMCATS (8-12-4, 5-4-2) in the final game of the ECHA regular season. Worcester State clinched the first seed in the tournament with their 2-0 victory over Anna Maria last night, and look to put the exclamation on the season with a sweep in the final weekend of the regular season.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Lancers (9-13-1, 7-2-1 MASCAC) faced off against the Anna Maria AMCATS (8-11-4, 5-3-2 MASCAC) for the teams Senior Night. The night honored seniors Layna Pereiro (Chicago, IL), Ellen Cook (Beckett, MA), Amy MacGlashing (Marlborough, MA), Sydney Vautour (Hamilton, MA) and Anya Laxton (Holbrook, NY) for their impressive contribution to the program.
Worcester, MA- After a dominant week by the Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team, two players were selected as ECHA Players of the Week. Graduate student Cassidhe Wozniak (Turner Falls, MA) was named Player of the Week and first year Fiona Hatton (Homer, AK) was tabbed as the Rookie of the Week in the Lancers 2-0 week that saw them scoring 16 goals.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester Women’s Ice Hockey team (8-13-1, 6-2-1) returned home to face off again against MCLA (4-16-1, 0-8-1), after defeating the Trailblazers 7-0 in North Adams last night. Worcester is looking to seal up the ECHA top seed in the final three games of action, and a win against MCLA is pivotal to their success.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (7-13-1, 5-2-1) heads out to North Adams tonight to play the first of an away-home series with the MCLA Trailblazers (4-15-1, 0-7-1). Worcester claimed the first two victories of the season over the Trailblazers in their inaugural season in the ECHA conference, and look to grab win number three to help solidify their conference standings.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team placed two on this week’s ECHA weekly honors. Sophomore Lea Gaspar (Chelmsford, MA) and graduate student Katie Puumala (Framingham, MA) were tabbed as co-players of the week for the ECHA after a dominating 7-0 performance against conference opponent Rivier University.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey (6-13-1, 4-2-1) returned to action this evening to face off against the Rivier Raiders (8-8-3, 3-2-2) after a heartbreaking last second loss in their ECHA matchup game with the Raiders last night, who stole a win off the Lancers. Worcester looks to even the score tonight in the fourth and final regular season matchup with the Raiders as each team looks to snag the top spot in the ECHA tournament set to begin in a few weeks.
Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (6-12-1, 4-1-1) returns to ECHA action tonight at the Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center as they host the Rivier Raiders (7-8-3, 2-2-2) in a Friday night showdown. As the Lancers move into the final six game, all conference slates, they are working to snag their third consecutive top seed into the ECHA tournament. In their previous match ups this season the teams walked away with a 2-2 tie and a 7-0 victory for Worcester State.
