Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2022-2023

[BadgerPete]

I am pumped about it too. The Team Canada or USA players have a higher probability of a higher ceiling, so it's fantastic. Watts year will she be in Madison?

I believe she is the first 2024-2025 commit. (The window had just opened on August 1st for those players.)

[Timothy A]

I read Rigsby has announced she is pregnant. That's going to be quite the hockey pedigree in that child. We've got out first 2041 commit, just don't know the gender yet.

I also read in that same article that she tore an MCL on 1/14 and played in the Olympics with the injury. I'm not a Dr or an athlete, can anyone shed some light on how that injury would affect the quality of play of a goalie?

[robertearle]

I read Rigsby has announced she is pregnant. That's going to be quite the hockey pedigree in that child. We've got out first 2041 commit, just don't know the gender yet.

I also read in that same article that she tore an MCL on 1/14 and played in the Olympics with the injury. I'm not a Dr or an athlete, can anyone shed some light on how that injury would affect the quality of play of a goalie?

It would depend on the degree of the "tear". MCL injury will be referred to as a sprain, strain, tear, and all mean the same thing to one degree or another. During his consecutive games play streak, Brett Favre had a grade 1 (mild) or grade 2 (moderate) tear and played the next week with a brace, etc. I very much doubt she was playing with a complete grade 3 tear.

(Of course Wisconsin volleyballer Gio Civita played the final third of last year - including the NCAA tournament - with no ACL at all in one knee. So who knows.)

[Gargoyle]

Lineups for worlds: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2022wwcroster

[Gargoyle]

Collegiate series line-up: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2022co...teseriesroster
U-18 roster: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2022u18seriesroster

[Timothy A]

Collegiate series line-up: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2022co...teseriesroster
U-18 roster: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2022u18seriesroster

This college series is something I have never come across. Interesting. Seems like a National AAA team minor league set-up.

[Timothy A]

Lineups for worlds: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2022wwcroster

2 tiny goalies.

[Lindsay]

This college series is something I have never come across. Interesting. Seems like a National AAA team minor league set-up.

I feel like they’ve done it for a very long time.... but maybe it’s tweaked a bit this year? They used to have the two development teams or U22 teams play each other in August. Seems to have a new name this year, but I’m not sure how it impacts who is eligible for the team.

[PSUfan]

I feel like they’ve done it for a very long time.... but maybe it’s tweaked a bit this year? They used to have the two development teams or U22 teams play each other in August. Seems to have a new name this year, but I’m not sure how it impacts who is eligible for the team.

I believe they changed U22 --> Collegiate Series and expanded eligibility to anyone who still has collegiate eligibility even if over 22 (due to players taking their 5th year of eligibility due to COVID.)

[Bonzo]

Collegiate series line-up: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2022co...teseriesroster
U-18 roster: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2022u18seriesroster

Any word on why goalie and Badger commit Ava McNaughton isn’t on the U18 team? She was on the worlds roster and has an October 2004 birthdate so I would think she would be eligible

[BadgerPete]

Any word on why goalie and Badger commit Ava McNaughton isn’t on the U18 team? She was on the worlds roster and has an October 2004 birthdate so I would think she would be eligible

There's NO 2004 birthdates on the roster. (The first one is 1/3/05) UW commit Laney Potter is a 12/5/04 birthday and isn't on the roster, and Jenessa Gazdik also lands in that boat and is not on the roster. So U18 may have a rule that it's 2005 birthdays or later rather than a strict 18 at the time of tournament cutoff.

[ARM]

So U18 may have a rule that it's 2005 birthdays or later rather than a strict 18 at the time of tournament cutoff.

I remember like this has been discussed in the past and that this is a prep series for players who will be eligible for next year's U-18 Worlds.

[Gargoyle]

Nicole LaMantia and Sophie Shirley both had pretty goals in last night's U22 series (or whatever it's being called). I appreciated Hockey Canada streaming all the games.

[Timothy A]

I got such a nice gift for the 50 bucks I "donated" to UW for the opportunity to park in lot 91.....a sticker. Thanks Chris. Wink.

[Gargoyle]

Finlay McCarthy committed per SBNation, so that's excellent news!