Women’s hockey dominated this reporter’s attention last weekend. Minnesota (31-5-1) defeated Princeton 5-2 last Saturday at Ridder Arena to advance to the program’s 14th Frozen Four appearance. The Gophers will play Cornell in the first of two semifinals Friday at Hamden, Conn. This year’s squad is one of Brad Frost’s youngest clubs, but he told the MSR after the win he … [Read more...]
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Women’s hockey internship has steep learning curve
Brianna Montgomery \\ Photo by Charles Hallman The National Women Hockey League’s (NWHL’s) first-year Minnesota Whitecaps is the first local pro team in this century to have someone not White working in its marketing and public relations department. In the early 1990s, the University of Minnesota had exactly two Blacks — one male and one female — as assistant sports … [Read more...]
Women’s pro hockey games were first in MN
This column continues the Only One series in which this reporter shares his experiences as the only African American journalist on the scene. History was made recently at University of Minnesota’s Ridder Arena as well as in the state of Minnesota. The first professional women’s hockey game ever played here — actually the first and second such contests — took place between … [Read more...]
New pro league shoots high goals for women’s hockey
The National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL)’s first weekend of play is now history. Connecticut, New York, Boston and Buffalo, the four founding teams, each will play nine home games and nine away games, facing each other six times and again in the playoffs. The first NWHL All-Star game is scheduled for January 24, 2016 in Buffalo. When asked, Minnesota Women’s Hockey … [Read more...]
Hockey player a pro sports pioneer
Blake Bolden the first Black player in new women’s league Blake Bolden is an honest-to-goodness professional hockey player. She is among the pioneering players in the inaugural National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL), which began this past weekend. Bolden played for two seasons in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL), but she and the other players … [Read more...]