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Division 1 Commitments 2014-15

Re: Women's College Recuiting Article

Re: Women's College Recuiting Article

RPI
Marisa Raspa....................F .............................(NAHA) ....................................Downingtown, PA
 
Re: Team first

Re: Team first

ARM said:
No matter what a coach tells a recruit, the young lady would do well to remember throughout that hockey is a team sport. Coaches want to win, and their first obligation will always be to the team, not the individual. Any assurance made to a pre-college player is an estimate, no matter what coach delivered that estimate. If others work harder and improve more, the player in question can be passed on the depth chart. Should a young player be unable to grasp and execute a system, it will be tough to give her minutes. As Trillium said, a school should be picked in large part by factors outside of hockey. So once at that school and on that team, the more important question to the coach may be, "What do I have to do or improve to get more playing time?" Don't expect life to always be fair, because I will promise you that you will find yourself in situations where it is not. Focusing too much on those times only serves to make one unhappy. Look in the mirror, focus on what you can do, because your actions are the only ones that you control. If you are not playing, then look for every opportunity to be the best teammate that you can be, and take your joy out of the success of the team. That is the role of anyone on a team. If that sounds unbearable, then there are many individual sports in which one can compete.

This link was posted in another thread, but the message is something that is good to always keep in mind. Hockey is not about the individual.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinio...olympians_play_team_first_not_me_first_hockey
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The article has been archived FYI. But your post is spot on. I've interviewed players and their families as part of my alumni volunteer candidate assessments for Harvard and a lot of what you posted comes up during the interview. It's amazing how some kids just feel like the school owes them some huge favor and that they expect to play first line and PP duty. Before they have even gone to their first practice. Some parents act like their agents which is downright laughable when you consider that there is no women's NHL (not yet at least). I've yet to encounter a kid who thinks they need to improve on something. They just feel they are ready right now. Of course in some cases, that's true (Sarah Vaillancourt comes to mind). But even blue chip recruits can learn and become even better players and grow as individuals.
 
Skate79 said:
The article has been archived FYI. But your post is spot on. I've interviewed players and their families as part of my alumni volunteer candidate assessments for Harvard and a lot of what you posted comes up during the interview. It's amazing how some kids just feel like the school owes them some huge favor and that they expect to play first line and PP duty. Before they have even gone to their first practice. Some parents act like their agents which is downright laughable when you consider that there is no women's NHL (not yet at least). I've yet to encounter a kid who thinks they need to improve on something. They just feel they are ready right now. Of course in some cases, that's true (Sarah Vaillancourt comes to mind). But even blue chip recruits can learn and become even better players and grow as individuals.
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These two outstanding posts will be integrated, permanently, into the commitments threads when I arise later this am and can work off the PC.
 
Re: Division 1 Commitments 2014-15

From the MA Spitfires website:

Northeastern University
Halle Silva ........................ F ..................... Spitfires/Tabor ................ MA

Quinnipiac University
Raquel Pennoyer ................ F ..................... Spitfires/Tabor ............... MA
 
Re: Division 1 Commitments 2014-15

Mercyhurst
Jessica Convery................G...................Honeybaked.................Commerce, MI
 
Re: Division 1 Commitments 2014-15

Connecticut
Theresa Knutson.....................F.............(Team Wisconsin)................................Onalaska, WI
 
Re: Team first

Re: Team first

Boston University
Victoria Bach.....................F.............(Mississauga Chiefs)................................Milton, Ont.
 
Re: Division 1 Commitments 2014-15

Union College -Hannah Erickson, Pequot Lakes, Forward
 
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Re: Division 1 Commitments 2014-15

Hannah might be going to Union and hail from Peqout Lakes, but she didn't play high school hockey there. Maybe NAHA like her sister? Or cousin.
 
Re: Division 1 Commitments 2014-15

Harvard
Chelsea Ziadie.............D............(Hotchkiss)............... Pointe-Claire, Que./Qc
 
Re: Division 1 Commitments 2014-15

THEWIZARD said:
Harvard
Chelsea Ziadie.............D............(Hotchkiss)............... Pointe-Claire, Que./Qc
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They replaced the player that dropped them and went to Cornell. Very surprising given the large number of players for next season already identified.
 
HockeyEast33 said:
What goalie - the 3 all appear to be forwards?

Providence continues their unstated policy of ignoring all New England players.... really hard to understand since they are actually a sought after school these days admissions wise amongst many prep school kids.
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I'm sure they are not ignoring the top tier New England kids.
 
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