Category Archives: College
Former Lady Duck Reyes named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week
March 3rd, 2016St. Lawrence University freshman forward Justine Reyes has been named the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week. A Chino Hills native and former Anaheim Lady Duck, Reyes scored a highlight reel game-winning goal in overtime in the third game of the quarterfinal series with No. 8 Princeton on Saturday to send St. Lawrence to the…
Lady Ducks grad Pankowski a finalist for 2016 Patty Kazmaier Award
February 25th, 2016The USA Hockey Foundation announced Thursday the 10 finalists for the 2016 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. Wisconsin sophomore forward Annie Pankowski made the cut. She is a Laguna Hills native and former member of the Anaheim Lady Ducks. The honor is awarded annually upon the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey and this…
Laguna Hills’ Pankowski named to U.S. Women’s National Team
February 25th, 2016Laguna Hills native and former Anaheim Lady Ducks forward Annie Pankowski has been named to the roster for the U.S. Women’s National Team that will compete in the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship. The tournament runs March 28-April 4 at the Sandman Centre in Kamloops, British, Columbia. Pankowski is wrapping up her sophomore season at…
Santa Clara’s Vallis wins weekly WCHA award
February 9th, 2016Max Vallis tied for the NCAA lead with three goals and led all Division I players with two game-winning markers, leading No. 14 Michigan Tech University to a sweep of Lake Superior State University and its 45th Winter Carnival championship last weekend. The senior from Santa Clara scored the Huskies’ first two goals in a…
San Diego State sets sights on regionals berth
January 14th, 2016There are times in life that are referred to as transition periods. One chapter of life’s journey comes to a close, and another soon opens. As a senior business management major at San Diego State University, Travis Sevilla isn’t quite ready to see college come to a conclusion; rather, he’s trying to extend his competitive…
Escondido’s Ortega wins weekly NCHC award
January 5th, 2016Escondido’s Austin Ortega was named the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) Offensive Player of the Week on Jan. 4 – his second such award this season. The junior forward at the University of Nebraska-Omaha earned the nod on the basis of his work against Arizona State University on Dec. 19-20. He tied for the team-scoring…
Marhoff twins help elevate Fullerton’s program
December 31st, 2015For those who grew up in cooler climates, there’s a good chance their hockey careers began with a time-honored tradition. That, of course, is skating on frozen ponds. Kurt and Nancy Marhoff were well acquainted with the traditions of a hockey mecca; Kurt is from Detroit, and Nancy originally from Toronto. With backgrounds like that,…
McCrea, Pankowski cop weekly NCAA awards
December 9th, 2015Two California natives – El Cajon’s Alec McCrea and Laguna Hills’ Annie Pankowski – picked up weekly awards in their respective NCAA Division I conferences for the week ending Dec. 7. McCrea, a freshman defenseman with Cornell University, was named the ECAC Rookie of the Week after leading all league freshmen in scoring while also…
Cal another worthy college hockey alternative
November 18th, 2015When people think of the University of California, Berkeley, the first thing that usually comes to mind is its exceptional academic standards. It’s certainly not hockey. But when Nic Kawasaki started applying to colleges across the country, he took notice that one of the institutions he was thinking about spending the next four years at…
No sophomore slump for UMass’ Kravchenko
November 17th, 2015Dennis Kravchenko is fluent in Russian, English and passing, and he’s picking up French, Spanish and goal-scoring quite nicely as well. Multi-lingual and multi-dimensional, the University of Massachusetts sophomore from Laguna Niguel got off to a blazing start this year, scoring 12 points in the Minutemen’s first six games, including seven goals. That comes on…