robertearle
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With the 2024-25 year wrapping up, and graduation happening this weekend (and the PWHL draft deadline past), it's time to look forward (Forever Forward) to the coming season. An Olympic year, but without the roster disruptions that has meant in the past; game scheduling will be "interesting".
With great and heartfelt thanks, we bid farewell to all-everything, award winner, record holder and one of the latest three-time NCAA champions, Casey O'Brien. And to three-time winner Katie Kotlowski, two-time winner Sarah Wozniewicz, and three-time winner (one with UW) Quinn Kuntz.
But they leave behind a very talented and deep roster to try for the ninth NCAA Badger championship; they have to be the favorite to repeat, don't they?
To-be seniors: Caroline Harvey (2x NCAA champ), Lacey Eden (3x), Kirsten Simms (2x), Laila Edwards (2x), Marianne Picard (2x), Vivian Jungels (2x), and McKayla Zilisch (1x).
To-Be juniors: Claire Enright (2x), Chloe Baker (2x), Kelly Gorbatenko (1x), Ava Murphy (1x), Cassie Hall (1x), Laney Potter (1x), and Ava McNaughton (1x)
To-Be sophomores: Finley McCarthy, Hannah Halverson, Maggie Scannell, Emma Venusio, Bella Vasseur, and Grace Bickett (all 1x)
Incoming freshmen: forwards Adela Sapovalivova, Charlotte Pieckenhagen, and Nicole Gorbatenko, defenders Rachel Gorbatenko and Mackenzie Jones, and goalie Ryhah Stewart.
('class designations' in terms of eligibility remaining; too complicated to do it otherwise)
That makes for a full 26 players on the roster: 15 forwards, 8 defenders, and 3 goalies.
(Notable these days, no transfers in, no transfers out after the 2024-25 season ... yet.)
The Badgers lose a really quite low percentage of their scoring: only about 16% of their goals, and 21% of their assists (of course, the great majority of that having come from O'B).
Ticket prices around the rest of the Badger athletic world have been going up again for 2025-26, so that's the thing I'm not looking forward to...
With great and heartfelt thanks, we bid farewell to all-everything, award winner, record holder and one of the latest three-time NCAA champions, Casey O'Brien. And to three-time winner Katie Kotlowski, two-time winner Sarah Wozniewicz, and three-time winner (one with UW) Quinn Kuntz.
But they leave behind a very talented and deep roster to try for the ninth NCAA Badger championship; they have to be the favorite to repeat, don't they?
To-be seniors: Caroline Harvey (2x NCAA champ), Lacey Eden (3x), Kirsten Simms (2x), Laila Edwards (2x), Marianne Picard (2x), Vivian Jungels (2x), and McKayla Zilisch (1x).
To-Be juniors: Claire Enright (2x), Chloe Baker (2x), Kelly Gorbatenko (1x), Ava Murphy (1x), Cassie Hall (1x), Laney Potter (1x), and Ava McNaughton (1x)
To-Be sophomores: Finley McCarthy, Hannah Halverson, Maggie Scannell, Emma Venusio, Bella Vasseur, and Grace Bickett (all 1x)
Incoming freshmen: forwards Adela Sapovalivova, Charlotte Pieckenhagen, and Nicole Gorbatenko, defenders Rachel Gorbatenko and Mackenzie Jones, and goalie Ryhah Stewart.
('class designations' in terms of eligibility remaining; too complicated to do it otherwise)
That makes for a full 26 players on the roster: 15 forwards, 8 defenders, and 3 goalies.
(Notable these days, no transfers in, no transfers out after the 2024-25 season ... yet.)
The Badgers lose a really quite low percentage of their scoring: only about 16% of their goals, and 21% of their assists (of course, the great majority of that having come from O'B).
Ticket prices around the rest of the Badger athletic world have been going up again for 2025-26, so that's the thing I'm not looking forward to...
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