Minnesota Ms. Hockey top 10 finalists announced

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS ­­— Let’s Play Hockey newspaper announced today the top 10 candidates for the 2009 Ms. Hockey Award, which will be presented to the top senior girls’ high school hockey player in Minnesota.

 

In alphabetical order, here are this year’s top 10 finalists, with college choice:

 

Finalist                    School          Position         College

Lisa Berreman           Eagan           Defense         Dartmouth

Margaret Chute        Blake            Forward         Harvard

Callie Dahl               Stillwater       Forward         St. Cloud State

Sally Komarek           Blake            Forward         Dartmouth

Becky Kortum           Hopkins         Forward         Minnesota

Mary Loken              Roseau          Forward         North Dakota

Erika Magnusson       Fergus Falls    Defense         Minnesota State

Alex Nelson              Andover        Forward         St. Cloud State

Kelsey Romatoski      Holy Angels    Defense         Harvard

Lauren Zrust            Blaine            Forward         Minnesota State

 

Six of the 10 players named as finalists are committed to a WCHA school for next season, while the remaining four finalists are bound for an Ivy League university. All of them have been bound to the textbooks for the past several years. The top 10 finalists check in with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.75. Six of the finalists hail from Class AA schools, while LPH No. 2 Blake boasts two finalists in Margaret Chute and Sally Komarek.

 

The top five finalists for the Ms. Hockey Award will be named in the Feb. 19 edition of Let’s Play Hockey with the winner announced at the Ms. Hockey awards banquet on Sunday, March 1 at 11 a.m., at the St. Paul RiverCentre. The top 10 finalists for the Let’s Play Hockey Senior Goalie of the Year Award were also announced today. The five finalists for the Senior Goalie of the Year Award will be named in the Feb. 12 edition of Let’s Play Hockey. Both awards are sponsored by Let’s Play Hockey and the Minnesota Wild.

 

In addition to on-ice talent, criteria for the Ms. Hockey Award includes academics, community/extracurricular activities, citizenship and coachability. The 2008 Ms. Hockey winner was Sarah Erickson of Bemidji. Other past winners include Katharine Chute of Blake (2007), Allie Thunstrom of North St. Paul (2006), Gigi Marvin of Warroad (2005), Erica McKenzie of Hastings (2004), Andrea Nichols of Hibbing/Chisholm (2003), Ashley Albrecht of South St. Paul (2002), Renee Curtin of Roseville (2001), Krissy Wendell of Park Center (2000), Ronda Curtin of Roseville (1999), Laura Slominski of Burnsville (1998), Annamarie Holmes of Apple Valley (1997) and Winny Brodt of Roseville (1996).

 

Other awards that will be presented at the banquet include the Let’s Play Hockey Senior Goalie of the Year Award, which goes to the top senior goalie in girls’ high school hockey, as well as the Minnesota Girls High School Hockey Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year, and All-State and All-Academic Award winners for the 2007-08 season.

 

For more information on the Ms. Hockey banquet, call Let’s Play Hockey at 612-729-0023.