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This is what I have for the next two recruiting classes:

2025-26
Olivia Ferebee (CT Polar Bears) - G

Nora Curtis (Williston Northampton) - F
Taya Lonsdale (Shawnigan Lake) - F
London McDavid (Delta) - F
Riley Scorgie (Barrie) - F

2026-27
Rachel Bishop (Kent/Mid-Fairfield) - D
Carly Dann (Loomis/Wizards) - D
Taia MacDonald (Mississauga) - D

Renee Bishop (Kent/Mid-Fairfield) - F
Keira Bruen (Phillips Academy) - F
Jillian Mclaughlin (Rink Academy) - F
Zahra Nauhaus (Shattuck) - F
Kayla O'Donnell (BK Selects) - F
Shannon Pearson (Barrie) - F

Quote from: scoop85

Quote from: WederThe official announcement of the Class of 2027 includes five players:

D - Piper Grober
D - Abby Thibodeau
F - Beatrice Perron-Roy
F - Karel Prefontaine
G - Annelies Bergmann

A few of the gals mentioned in the recent Hockey News article are not listed as part of this class.

I'm pretty sure they based that article on the commits listed as committed to Cornell on its Elite Prospects recruiting page for the 2023-24 season.

Avar is a 2024-25 commit.

Huntley was committed but changed her commit to BU early this year. I assume admissions.

I don't think Keira Hurry was ever committed to Cornell.

Yes. I heard rumor at one point that it wasn't certain if Bergmann would arrive in 2023-24 or 2024-25. She's a senior this year so I'm not sure why she would delay coming.

Quote from: billchuGiven that the season is now over, what is the outlook for incoming recruits (2023-2024)?  I can't find a consistent list of incoming players for next year.  I know of the following:

- Karel Prefontaine (F)
- Piper Grober (D)
- Anneliese Bergmann (G)
- Lindzi Avar (F)

The first two were on the Canadian U18 team last year (aged out this year?).  Bergmann was the US U18 goalie for the last two years.  Does anyone know any other commits?  I know Rose Dwyer (Grace's sister) is committed, but I think she is 2024-2025.

I believe Lindzi Avar is also a 2024-25 recruit. She is listed as being in 11th grade on her high school team's roster.

Beatrice Perron-Roy is also committed for next year. She plays with Karel Prefontaine at Stanstead. She appears to be another solid recruit. Here is a link to Stanstead's player stats page for the current season: https://stansteadcollege.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/1161/download/download_6462748.pdf.

Quote from: Weder

Quote from: profudgeTeam USA versus Sweden on ESPN+ leading 1-0 early in first right now.

This is the U18 Worlds in Wisconsin. Incoming D Grace Dwyer had a couple of assists in a 6-1 win.

Canada has four incoming Red players (and a 2023 commit) and lost its opener, 2-0 to Finland.

There are two 2023 Cornell commits on Team Canada, Piper Grober and Karel Prefontaine.

Quote from: WederFive players from next season's incoming class were selected to the U.S. and Canadian U18 teams for the 2022 Worlds, which didn't take place:
Team USA: Grace Dwyer (D)
Team Canada: Avi Adam (F), McKenna Van Gelder (F), Alyssa Regaldo (D) and Sarah MacEachern (D). Piper Grober (D), who is a 2023 commit, also was selected.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZawbjeAxA9/

Anneliese Bergmann (USA) and Karel Prefontaine (Canada) are also 2023 Cornell commits.

4 Nations Cup with Team Canada

They did, but Johnston Saulnier only were on the team together for one year.

It appears that the team has also picked up a commitment from Willow Slobodzian, formerly a UND commit. She played for the Canadian U-18 team for the three game series against the USA this past summer. She was going to enroll at UND this fall. I'm not sure if she will be able to get through admissions for the 2017-18 season or if she'll be in the 2018-19 recruiting class.

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Quote from: Jim HylaNo, she came at a defenseless player with a hard illegal check. It should be called for what it was. I would hope that even in the men's game, a defenseless check would have been punished. Those are the type of checks that can be career ending, and how can you say that because the next game is an NCAA game, you'll look the other way. If you want to eliminate that type of play, you call it whenever it occurs. She hurt the team and now has to live with it.

It's not often that I disagree with you, Jim, but I'm going to now.

The main issue is that the infraction wasn't called on the ice. It wasn't even called as a major penalty. My concern is the league stepping in, and increasing the punishment so significantly.

As for the Clarkson player being defenseless, she was already engaged with another Cornell player, so it's not as if she was skating in clear ice and was blind-sided. O'Neill did come skating in from some distance away, but as I see it, she basically stopped before cross-checking the Clarkson player. If there was truly "inten to to injure", she wouldn't have stopped.

If the play was black and white, sure, don't change anything because it is the NCAA tournament. But I really think the ECAC waded into a very gray-area play, especially since the hit was ruled a minor penalty on the ice. To levy that much additional punishment in this situation I just see as wrong.

Not to mention that O'Neill's stick blade is on the ice when she makes contact with the Clarkson player. It looks like she was trying to play the puck/defend Cornell's net so she leaned into the Clarkson player making bodily contact with her. After watching that replay a number of times, I'm still shocked that she received a game suspension particularly given it only drew a minor penalty at the time. It isn't like it happened behind the play and the refs couldn't see what happened.

Quote from: andyw2100Crazy thought, but could this be the powers that be at the ECAC wanting to try to tip the scales a bit to make it more likely that the "stronger" team moves on to the next round?

I was watching the game and also thought it didn't look like much of anything at the time.

My mind went there too.

Quote from: daredevilcuhttp://www.ecachockey.com/women/members/cornell/20170703_Suspension

Wow.

Wow is right. I didn't see what exactly she did to draw the penalty at the time. I would like to see that play in front of Cornell's empty net again.

Quote from: Jim Hyla

Quote from: imafrshmnBC wins, so Cornell should get in. Big question is whether we get matched up against Clarkson again or perhaps Minnesota-Duluth.

They pick 8 teams and here's the PWR before today's results.

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Women's National Collegiate PairWise Rankings

Rank Team       PWR W-L-T Win % Win % Rank RPI RPI Rank
1 Wisconsin 35 30-2-4 .8889 2 .6608* 2
2 Minnesota-Duluth34 25-5-5 .7857 7 .6178* 3
3 Clarkson 33 28-4-5 .8243 3 .6169* 4
4 St. Lawrence 32 26-5-4 .8000 4 .6050* 5
5 Boston College 31 26-5-5 .7917 6 .6025* 6
6 Minnesota 30 25-7-5 .7432 8 .5975* 7
7 Cornell        29 20-7-5 .7031 9 .5775* 8
8 Robert Morris 28 24-4-6 .7941 5 .5590* 9

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/pairwise-rankings/d-i-women/#ixzz4aUNUY6a8

These 8 should get bids, as 9 & 10 are PU & NE, and the 8 include the conf champs.

They seed 4 and put 4 more in by geographic criteria. They want to not have air travel.

So W & UMD in west, Clarkson & I'd guess BC in east.

The remaining 4 are difficult as there's only 1 more western team, Minny.

So I'm guessing they send RMU to the West #1 seed.

CU and SLU in east. Which goes to Clarkson and which to BC? I'd like to see final PWR, but based on us beating SLU, they might send us to BC and SLU to Clarkson.

But I'm pretty sure we'll stay east.

We'll see at 9 tonight.

With the BC's win today, they should pass SLU in the standings. So Cornell will most likely end up at Clarkson and SLU should head to BC. SLU is far enough ahead of Cornell in the standings that it would be highly unlikely that SLU will be sent to Clarkson.

Quote from: dag14Great finish; kill a long 5on3 and then survive SLU pulling the goalie with about 4 minutes left in the 3rd.  Hope they have enough gas in the tank to take on Clarkson tomorrow....

Yes it was...also Cornell making the NCAA tournament now pretty much comes down to either pulling off another upset tomorrow or, failing that, for BC to not choke against whomever the play (BU or NU) tomorrow.

She posted on Instagram after last season something along the lines of it being a very difficult decision to quit hockey to focus on getting healthy. It would be great if she were able to come back next year, but it sounded like a permanent health related retirement.