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RPI 2010-11 season

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Beyond the Dashers lists

D Kathryn Schilter Toronto Aeros. (All three recruits play on the same team.)
 
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Kathryn Schilter's PWHL page http://pwhl3.stats.pointstreak.com/playerpage.html?playerid=3542183&seasonid=5807

From the media guide http://www.torontoaeros.com/JuniorAeros/Resources/AerosWebGuide1011.pdf (not formatted)
Kathryn
Schilter
Defence
21
Graduation Year: 2011 Shoots Right
Birth Year: 1993 Height: 5’ 6”
Home Town: Previous Team:
Aurora on Midget Aeros
School: Aurora HS, Grade 12
Academic Interest: Business
Hobbies: Training, Sports, Traveling, Music, Time with
friends and family, Trying new things
Key Achievements: Honour Roll student; Midget Aeros
LLFHL Playoff Silver medal and 4 Tournament Gold
medals 09-10; Varsity Hockey Captain, YRAA Champions
09-10 & 08-09 with back-to-back undefeated seasons;
YRAA Hockey All-Star 08-09; Midget Aeros LLFHL
League Champions and 3 Tournament Gold medals 08-
09; Community Leadership Award 07
Favourite Quotation:
Your attitude, not your aptitude,
will determine your altitude.
 
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Good game tonight. Pretty even on the puck possession and shots throughout the night. Once again we gave up a 5 on 3 chance late in the 3rd period, but we were able to kill it off. I think we need a little bit of work on our passing in the transition game, but the power play looked really good, we were working the puck around the points very well, and although no goals came out of it, I liked what we saw, and eventually we will get a good tip-in or one-timer.
 
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Just realize I didn't give my take on Saturday's game. SU pretty much dominated play until taking a penalty in the 1st, and then RPI began to capitalize, twice. Unfortunately, after that, RPI was having tough luck getting some goals as SU was able to adjust the defense effectively (RPI had a number of chances in the 2nd half of the game), and came back to get a tie. One thing we really have to work on is not taking penalties in the 3rd, especially 5-on-3 situations, as it happened again. We may get away with it now, but we probably won't be so lucky in the heart of league play.

The entire extended family of Sierra Vadner was at the game, and a real pleasure to hang out with.
 
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Not much activity on this thread but I thought I'd point out that RPI @ Colgate is on Time Warner channel 1 for those of us in the coverage area.
 
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Beyond the Dashers shows another commitment, Ali Svoboda of Chicago Mission.

It's good to see more recruits than players graduating. The team can use some depth.
 
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I happened to notice that Courtney Burke of Albany is currently the leading scorer Shattuck St. Mary's girl's prep team http://hockey.s-sm.org/teams/2010-2011/girls/prep/girls-prep-stats despite being both a junior and a defenseman. Her name was brought up last summer on the RPI men's off-season thread by Wicked Slappaahs. Ben Barr (SSM '00, RPI '04), who coached her on a CD Selects boys team, recommended her to the SSM staff. She has also played in the national program http://www.usahockey.com/Template_Usahockey.aspx?NAV=TU_02_07_01&id=296934.

Does anyone know if the 'Tute is interested in her and if so does she have any interest?
 
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From the online RPI directory:

Name: Brianna Leah Piper
Class: First-Year Student
Curriculum: Biomedical Engineering

Name: Alexandra Kristen Svoboda
Class: First-Year Student
Curriculum: Undeclared Engineering

The other three are not yet listed unless Taylor Mahoney's real name is Chloe.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
A nice article about the three Alaskans playing for the 'Tute http://www.rpiathletics.com/news/2011/2/20/WICE_0220112946.aspx.
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That is a nice article, Ralph. Once the season is over I want to come back on here and talk about recruiting. It is a challenge and an opportunity for RPI, as reflected by a couple of the quotes in the article. The opportunity is that RPI is a top rated university in engineering and scientific areas at a time when many high achieving and ambitious women are chosing those areas for study. It is a challenge in that the school is not a household name outside of the region. As mentioned in the article, RPI is not, and never has been a team of superstars. They have done a great job of recruiting and developing strong teams (the coaching staff has a good rep with potential recruits that I have talked with) but it is getting increasingly difficult to be competitive without having at least one or two of the "superstars": young women who have played for Canadian or U.S. national teams, U-22 teams or U-18 teams. Which brings me back to the present challenge: this weekend they will face the team that has had the most success of any in recruiting superstars over the last 3 years. Hopefully they will pull the biggest upside in ECAC history, and I will stop talking about the need for superstars :D.
 
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hab said:
That is a nice article, Ralph. Once the season is over I want to come back on here and talk about recruiting. It is a challenge and an opportunity for RPI, as reflected by a couple of the quotes in the article. The opportunity is that RPI is a top rated university in engineering and scientific areas at a time when many high achieving and ambitious women are chosing those areas for study. It is a challenge in that the school is not a household name outside of the region. As mentioned in the article, RPI is not, and never has been a team of superstars. They have done a great job of recruiting and developing strong teams (the coaching staff has a good rep with potential recruits that I have talked with) but it is getting increasingly difficult to be competitive without having at least one or two of the "superstars": young women who have played for Canadian or U.S. national teams, U-22 teams or U-18 teams. Which brings me back to the present challenge: this weekend they will face the team that has had the most success of any in recruiting superstars over the last 3 years. Hopefully they will pull the biggest upside in ECAC history, and I will stop talking about the need for superstars :D.
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Well the season is over. I agree that RPI has a lot of problems to overcome when it comes to recruiting for women's hockey, and making the playoffs is an accomplishment. Although the fact that RPI isn't a household name is a problem, I don't think that it is the major one.

Being a tech school is even a bigger hurdle to overcome for recruiting women than men. Although the choice of majors is much greater than it was when I was there, I think that everything still has a technical tinge to it. I am happy that it is that way, but it is a problem for recruiting. Although more and more women seem interested in a technical education, it probably still is a significantly lower percentage than for men.

I remember talking to my cousin over a year ago about her daughter who plays hockey at a NE prep school. She didn't consider RPI for this reason. I am pretty sure that RPI wouldn't have been interested either, but just my cousin's knowledge of RPI from when I was there formed an opinion. Anyway, she is going to a D-III NESCAC school next year.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Well the season is over. I agree that RPI has a lot of problems to overcome when it comes to recruiting for women's hockey, and making the playoffs is an accomplishment. Although the fact that RPI isn't a household name is a problem, I don't think that it is the major one.

Being a tech school is even a bigger hurdle to overcome for recruiting women than men. Although the choice of majors is much greater than it was when I was there, I think that everything still has a technical tinge to it. I am happy that it is that way, but it is a problem for recruiting. Although more and more women seem interested in a technical education, it probably still is a significantly lower percentage than for men.

I remember talking to my cousin over a year ago about her daughter who plays hockey at a NE prep school. She didn't consider RPI for this reason. I am pretty sure that RPI wouldn't have been interested either, but just my cousin's knowledge of RPI from when I was there formed an opinion. Anyway, she is going to a D-III NESCAC school next year.
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It is certainly true that the proportion of women interested in science and engineering careers is comparatively low. On the other hand, for those with an interest in that area, RPI would actually be a particular draw...and the competition with other schools for those recruits would be far less intense than is the case for recruits with more typical interests in social sciences or humanities too.

Clarkson seems to have been quite successful in recruiting blue chip prospects in recent years, despite similar academic strengths as RPI and probably even less of a household name, so it does not seem to be a barrier. I would think that RPI's recent hockey successes, especially in the absence of high profile recruits, can only help further in future recruiting efforts. I know of the couple of recruits who chose RPI specifically because of its combination of high academic reputation and curricular focus. For them it was an easy choice.
 
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Trillium said:
It is certainly true that the proportion of women interested in science and engineering careers is comparatively low. On the other hand, for those with an interest in that area, RPI would actually be a particular draw...and the competition with other schools for those recruits would be far less intense than is the case for recruits with more typical interests in social sciences or humanities too.

Clarkson seems to have been quite successful in recruiting blue chip prospects in recent years, despite similar academic strengths as RPI and probably even less of a household name, so it does not seem to be a barrier. I would think that RPI's recent hockey successes, especially in the absence of high profile recruits, can only help further in future recruiting efforts. I know of the couple of recruits who chose RPI specifically because of its combination of high academic reputation and curricular focus. For them it was an easy choice.
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There certainly are some who chose RPI because of its academic strengths. Indeed a larger percentage of the women hockey players major in science and engineering than the men hockey players.

I won't discuss the relative merits of RPI and Clarkson, but I think that one thing that Clarkson has going for it is its proximity to Canada.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
There certainly are some who chose RPI because of its academic strengths. Indeed a larger percentage of the women hockey players major in science and engineering than the men hockey players.

I won't discuss the relative merits of RPI and Clarkson, but I think that one thing that Clarkson has going for it is its proximity to Canada.
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Given the biology/bio-med majors becoming very big, not to mention the ratio is getting better (at least from a guy's perspective), it may be a good draw.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I won't discuss the relative merits of RPI and Clarkson, but I think that one thing that Clarkson has going for it is its proximity to Canada.
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OK ;)

Very true. Some kids want to be close to home, and Clarkson's location is a draw for quite a few on that basis. However, I think there are probably more kids who don't like the idea of living in the middle of nowhere either, nor feel most comfortable at a college similar in size to their high school. The good news is that there are different options to fit different priorities, and the good news is that RPI does have a distinct package which differentiates itself.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
From the online RPI directory:

Name: Brianna Leah Piper
Class: First-Year Student
Curriculum: Biomedical Engineering

Name: Alexandra Kristen Svoboda
Class: First-Year Student
Curriculum: Undeclared Engineering

The other three are not yet listed unless Taylor Mahoney's real name is Chloe.
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Name: Eleeza R. Cox
Class: First-Year Student
Curriculum: Business and Management

Name: Taylor Mackinzie Mahoney
Class: First-Year Student
Curriculum: Business and Management

Name: Kathryn E. Schilter
Class: First-Year Student
Curriculum: Business and Management
 
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