TGHA Update

Feb. 27, 2008

Home Games

Final Week

Annual Banquet

Board Meeting

Congrats to 14Us

Cornell in Playoffs

Home Games

Sat. 3/1 12:45 pm Ithaca 16U vs. Rochester 16U Tier 1 Cass Park

Sat. 3/1 4:00 pm Ithaca 16U vs. Rochester 16U Tier 1 Cortland

Sun. 3/2 11:30 am House Practice RINK

Sun. 3/2 12:45 pm Ithaca 14U vs. Camillus 14U Cass Park

Final Week

Monday March 3, Tuesday March 4, and Thursday March 5 are the final regular season practices of the 2007-08 season!

(14U and 16U will have their last practices on Wednesday March 4 due to their departure schedule for their respective state tournaments.)

Plus Sunday March 9:

Initiation and House 12:45-2:15 pm at Cass Park

Annual Banquet

Hold the date for TGHA's Annual Banquet on Tuesday March 18. It's a family affair at Boynton Middle School. Each team is recognized and the season is celebrated. (Yet most teams also have their own end of season event...whether at the last practice or game or at a home or restaurant with coaches being thanked and girls cheered on for a great season.)

Board Meeting

Tuesday March 11, 7:00 pm, Cayuga Heights Fire Station, All welcome!

Congrats to 14Us

Visit www.ithacagirlshockey.com to see a photo of the 14Us celebrating their victory at Central Section Tournament for 14U Tier 2 teams! Good luck at States in Glens Falls, March 7-9.

Cornell in Playoffs

Good luck on Friday and Saturday at Harvard!

Congrats Rebecca!

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell freshman forward Rebecca Johnston was a unanimous selection as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in women's ice hockey, the league office announced on Wednesday following voting conducted by the league's coaches. Johnston becomes the Big Red's first Ivy League Rookie of the Year since Dana Antal '99 received the award in 1996.

Johnston, who leads the Big Red with 26 points on 12 goals and 14 assists in 20 games, was also the top rookie scorer among Ancient Eight schools. Johnston's 1.30 points-per-game average ranked her fifth overall among Ivy League players and fourth nationally in freshman scoring.

In addition to being selected as the league's rookie of the year, Johnston, a native of Sudbury, Ontario, was also named to the All-Ivy League First Team. She becomes the first Cornell women's hockey player selected to the first team since Robin Thompson and Janna Dewar were both selected as first-teamers in 1997-98.

The Big Red women enter postseason play for the first time since the 2003-04 season this weekend when they travel to No. 1 Harvard for the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinal Series. The best-of-three series begins at 7 p.m. at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday, Feb. 29.

First Team All-Ivy

F — Hayley Moore, Brown (Sr., Wakefield, Mass.)

F — Rebecca Johnston, Cornell (Fr., Sudbury, Ont.)

F — *Sarah Vaillancourt, Harvard (Jr., Sherbrooke, Que.)

D — *Caitlin Cahow, Harvard (Sr., Vinalhaven, Maine)

D — Katherine Dineen, Princeton (Jr., St. Paul, Minn.)

D — Sasha Sherry, Princeton (Fr., Lehighton, Pa.)

G — Christina Kessler, Harvard (So., Oakville, Ont.)

Second Team All-Ivy

F — Maggie Kennedy, Dartmouth (Jr., West Hartford, Conn.)

F — Sarah Parsons, Dartmouth (So., Dover, Mass.)

F — Marykate Oakley, Princeton (Sr., Buffalo, N.Y.)

D — Sarah Newnam, Dartmouth (Jr., Clifton, Va.)

G — Nicole Stock, Brown (Jr., Buffalo Grove, Ill.)

Honorable Mention

F — Jenny Brine, Harvard (Jr., Truro, N.S.); Crysti Howser, Yale (Jr., Wilmette, Ill.)

D — Julia Bronson, Dartmouth (Jr., Arlington, Va.); Alyssa Clarke, Yale (So., Donkin, N.S.)

G — Kristen Young, Princeton (Jr., Calgary, Alb.); Jackee Snikeris, Yale (Fr., Downingtown, Pa.)

Player of the Year

*Sarah Vaillancourt, Harvard (Jr. Sherbrooke, Que.)

Rookie of the Year

*Rebecca Johnston, Cornell (Fr., Sudbury, Ont.)

*unanimous selection

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