The women's college hockey season concluded Sunday with Ohio State's victory over Wisconsin in the Frozen Four championship game.
Some of the players who were active in Durham, New Hampshire over the weekend will travel to upstate New York this week to join the team that will represent the United States at the International Ice Hockey Federation's Women's World Championship at the Adirondack Bank Center. They are competing for a spot. in Utica next month.
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Sixteen players from Ohio State, Wisconsin and semifinalists Clarkson and Colgate are among 39 players on Team USA's evaluation camp roster in Lake Placid. The four-day camp opens Wednesday, with the final lineup expected to be announced by head coach John Roblewski on Sunday.
The four 16 Frozen players include Colgate defenseman Allie Simpson, All-American Sydney Morrow and New Hartford's Sydney Byrd. Byrd and Simpson, both fifth-graders, and Morrow, a sophomore, led No. 3 Colgate to a 32-7-1 season that ended with a 3-1 loss to Wisconsin in the semifinals on Saturday. The Raiders defeated No. 6 Cornell and No. 4 Clarkson in the ECAC semifinals and finals, and defeated Cornell again in NCAA regional play.
Among the other players attending camp this week are Aerin Frankel, the top goalie on last year's gold medal team, Wisconsin defenseman Caroline Harvey, last year's tournament's leading scorer, and 34-year-old four-time Olympian Hilary Knight is the oldest player in the league. Participated in 13 world championship tournaments. Knight led Team USA last year with eight goals in seven games.
Six other teams are in Utica this week preparing for the tournament. Switzerland, along with China, Japan and Denmark, trained at the Adirondack Bank Center and Nexus Center on Wednesday, while Sweden and Germany were scheduled to train later in the week. Teams from Canada, Finland, and the Czech Republic joined the United States, completing 10 teams' participation.
The five-man round-robin pool competition is scheduled for April 3-9, with the United States joining a pool that also includes Canada, Finland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. The U.S. team defeated Canada 6-3 in last year's title game in Brampton, Ont., and the U.S. has played in every gold medal match at the tournament since 1990. Canada has reached the finals 21 times and holds a record of 12 wins and 9 losses. In that game. Team USA defeated Finland in a shootout in the 2019 finals, their last gold medal before last year.
The 2024 championships and medals will be awarded on April 14th.
