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    Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2026-27

    With a ninth championship (!) in the books, and seniors graduating next week, it's time to start looking forward to the 2026-27 season. The extraordinarily successful graduating class includes Patty Kaz winner KK Harvey, Laila Edwards, Kirsten Simms, Vivian Jungels, Marianne Picard, Chloe...
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    Ohio State Women's Hockey 2026-27: "The future ARE the Buckeyes ... you can write that down."

    (The title comes from something Coach Muzerall said in the press conference after this past year's national championship game. She was asked about her 2025-26 freshmen class and the impact they had had, and how she felt about the team's future. Instead of giving the standard answer of "Well...
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    Transfer Portal 2026

    I happened to check on the portal web sites tonight, saw a half-dozen St Anselm players entering the last couple days. So I went to their web site to see what's up. St Anselm as a school has decided to drop from being a D-II to D-III school. Maybe someone here can confirm or correct this, but...
  4. robertearle

    Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2025-2026

    Eden and Picard would not have qualified, even if "5 years" would be starting next year. Their "five year clocks" ran out at the end of this season.
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    2026 Coaching Changes

    All sorts of things regarding a number of teams and schools. "Hard to believe" doesn't begin to cover it.
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    Here comes the 5th year !!

    (There is also a proposal to shift the "burden of proof" in cases of alleged transfer portal tampering. That is, if a school is accused of impermissible contact with an athlete at another school, that alleged contact is presumed to have occurred, with penalties forthcoming, unless and until the...
  7. robertearle

    Here comes the 5th year !!

    And medical hardship years. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if medical hardship years came back after a few years of sob stories, turning the proposed "5 in 5" to a more limited "5 in 6" somewhere down the road.)
  8. robertearle

    Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2025-2026

    I found out this past hockey season that Lacey Eden was a very good middle distance runner in high school, and saw on Instagram that she ran Crazylegs yesterday, an annual Madison 8K road run; more than 6700 runners yesterday. (8K is just a small fraction under 5 miles.) So I looked to see how...
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    Here comes the 5th year !!

    I wonder if they would open any sort of special portal window for current four-years-used seniors who get told "there's no room on our fall roster for you".
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    Transfer Portal 2026

    No longer a problem at Wisconsin: No Badgers taken in this year's NFL draft; the first time that's happened since 1978.
  11. robertearle

    Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2025-2026

    Grace Bickett's instagram announcement. Scroll through the comments, and there's one (or more) from pretty much every UW player there https://www.instagram.com/p/DXeyY0IDtj1/
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    Minnesota Women's Hockey 2025-26

    Enrolling a semester early makes a lot of sense to me for volleyball, so long as the player can handle it academically. Wisconsin has five doing so this spring (an unusually large incoming freshmen class for VB). They get extra practice time developing the connection and timing with the setter...
  13. robertearle

    Minnesota Women's Hockey 2025-26

    So generally, they are 17 year olds playing against 21 and 22 year olds. That doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. Certainly not an advantage. You mentioned Primerano. Can you point to anyone else who has done this? And what does it have to do with "decommits" and the portal?
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    Minnesota Women's Hockey 2025-26

    Their "five year clock" starts when they enroll. But because football (and volleyball) are fall sports only, their clock starting to run early doesn't matter. But for an ice hockey player, it could well matter.
  15. robertearle

    Minnesota Women's Hockey 2025-26

    So, what do they do during the spring? What is the advantage? How does not being in either school for the spring gain them anything? (Not to mention they miss out playing the spring half of their senior year in high school.) Entering in the fall isn't "early".
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