NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship
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The annual NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship tournaments determine the top women's ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 teams in NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 Division I and Division III. Women's ice hockey does not have a Division II classification. Under NCAA rules, Division II schools are allowed to compete as Division I members in sports that offer championships only in Divisions I and III. The official name of the "Division I" tournament is the National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship, which reflects the NCAA's formal terminology for championship events that are open to schools from multiple divisions.

This tournament is a single elimination competition of eight teams (seven for Division III) that has determined the women's collegiate national champion since 2000-01, when the NCAA began sponsoring the sport. The semi-finals and finals are called the "Women's Frozen Four." This moniker is similar to the name used by the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
The annual NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship tournament determines the top men's ice hockey team in NCAA Division I and Division III. The semi-finals and finals of the Division I Championship are branded as the Frozen Four, a passing nod to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship - known...

. The term is derived from the term "final four
Final four
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The Patty Kazmaier Award
Patty Kazmaier Award
The Patty Kazmaier Award is given to the top woman college ice hockey player in the United States. The award is presented during the women's annual ice hockey championship, the Frozen Four...

 ceremony takes place annually during Women's Frozen Four weekend.

National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship

Year Champion Score Runner-up City Arena
2001
2001 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2001 NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 4 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey...

Minnesota-Duluth
Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey
The Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota Duluth at the AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minnesota. The team is a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the Division I tier...

 
4-2 St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....

Minneapolis, MN Mariucci Arena
Mariucci Arena
Mariucci Arena is the home arena for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey team of the University of Minnesota. The arena is located on the Minneapolis campus and seats approximately 10,000 fans...

2002
2002 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2002 NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 4 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey...

Minnesota-Duluth 3-2 Brown
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

Durham, NH
Durham, New Hampshire
As of the census of 2000, there were 12,664 people, 2,882 households, and 1,582 families residing in the town. The population density was 565.5 people per square mile . There were 2,923 housing units at an average density of 130.5 per square mile...

Whittemore Center
Whittemore Center
Whittemore Center Arena or Whitt is a multi-purpose arena in Durham, New Hampshire on the campus of the University of New Hampshire. It was built for $30 million and opened in November 1995. It was dedicated to Frederick B. Whittemore and his family on May 5, 1996. It is adjacent to its...

2003
2003 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
-Notes:*March 23: UMD make women's hockey history as the Bulldogs win their third straight NCAA Frozen Four tournament. The Bulldogs defeat Harvard in a double overtime win 4-3. The game was held in Duluth, MN in front of the largest crowd in women's hockey NCAA history...

Minnesota-Duluth 4-3 (2OT
Overtime (ice hockey)
Overtime is a method of determining the winner and loser of an ice hockey match when the scores are tied after regulation. The two main methods are the overtime period and the shootout.-Overtime periods:...

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Harvard
Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey
The Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team represents Harvard University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women's hockey. Harvard competes as a member of the ECAC Conference and plays its home games at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-History:In the...

Duluth, MN
Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Saint Louis County. The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,265 in the 2010 census. Duluth is also the second largest city that is located on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario,...

DECC
Duluth Entertainment Convention Center
Duluth Entertainment Convention Center , is a multi-purpose arena and convention center complex located in Duluth, Minnesota. It has been home to the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldog hockey team since 1966...

2004
2004 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2004 NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 4 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 26, 2004, and ended with the championship game on March 28. A total of 4 games were...

Minnesota
Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey
The Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota at the Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis. The team is one of the members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Division I...

6-2 Harvard Providence, RI
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

Dunkin' Donuts Center
Dunkin' Donuts Center
The Dunkin' Donuts Center , is an indoor arena, located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States...

2005
2005 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2005 NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The tournament began on March 18, 2005, and ended with the championship game on March 27.The 2005 tournament...

Minnesota 4-3 Harvard Durham, NH Whittemore Center
2006
2006 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2006 NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 17, 2003, and ended with the championship game on March 26. A total of 7 games were...

Wisconsin
Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey
The Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey team is the hockey team that represents the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.-History:On October 8, 1999, the Bulldogs played the Wisconsin Badgers in the first ever Women's WCHA conference game at the Kohl Center in Madison, WI...

3-0 Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Mariucci Arena
2007
2007 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 9, 2007, and ended with the championship game on March 18. A total of 7 games were...

Wisconsin 4-1 Minnesota-Duluth Lake Placid, NY
Lake Placid, New York
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Herb Brooks Arena
Herb Brooks Arena
The Herb Brooks Arena, known as the Olympic Center until 2005, is a 7,700-seat multi-purpose arena in Lake Placid, New York. This arena was built for the 1932 Winter Olympics, the first indoor arena used for the Winter Olympics. For the 1932 Games, it hosted the figure skating and six of the twelve...

2008
2008 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2008 NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 14, 2009, and ended with the championship game on March 22. A total of 7 games were...

Minnesota-Duluth 4-0 Wisconsin Duluth, MN DECC
2009
2009 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
-External links:*...

Wisconsin 5-0 Mercyhurst
Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey
The Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey team is the hockey team that represents the Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. The program started in 1999 and Michael Sisti has been the only coach in the history of the program. From 2000 to 2002, the Lakers were part of the Great Lakes Women's...

Boston, MA
Boston
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Agganis Arena
Agganis Arena
Agganis Arena is a 7,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on the campus of Boston University. It is named after Harry Agganis, an outstanding football and baseball athlete for BU and the Boston Red Sox. He died at the age of 26, from a massive pulmonary embolism...

2010 Minnesota-Duluth 3-2 (3OT) Cornell
Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey
The Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey program represents Cornell University and participates in ECAC Hockey.-History:The Cornell women's hockey program was started in 1971. It would only be in 1972 that the team would play its first game. It was a 4-3 victory over Scarborough. In 1972, they played...

 
Minneapolis, MN Ridder Arena
Ridder Arena
Ridder Arena is the ice rink of the women's hockey team at the University of Minnesota. The Golden Gophers are the only collegiate women's hockey team to have an arena built for them. The arena was opened in 2002. The arena seats about 3,400 people; included in that total are the occupants of about...

2011
2011 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
-All-Tournament team:*Forward: Brooke Ammerman, Wisconsin*Forward: Meghan Duggan, Wisconsin*Forward: Carolyne Prevost, Wisconsin*Defense: Alev Kelter, Wisconsin*Defense: Catherine Ward, Boston University*Goaltender: Molly Schaus, Boston College-References:...

Wisconsin 4-1 Boston University  Erie, PA
Erie, Pennsylvania
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Louis J. Tullio Arena
Louis J. Tullio Arena
The Louis J. Tullio Arena is a 5,586-seat multi-purpose arena, in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States....

2012
- - Duluth, MN Amsoil Arena
2013
- - St. Paul, MN Ridder Arena

Tournament format history

2001–2004
4 teams (single-elimination)


2005–Present
8 teams (single-elimination)


Consolation game discontinued after 2005.

Most Championships Won By State

The following list is of championships won ranked by state
U.S. state
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Rank State School #
1 Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

Minnesota-Duluth (5)
Minnesota (2)
7
2 Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

Wisconsin (4) 4

WCHA

School # of Appearances
Minnesota (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Minnesota-Duluth (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Wisconsin (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)

HEA

School # of Appearances
Boston College (2007, 2009, 2011)
Boston University (2010, 2011)
New Hampshire (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Providence (2005)

CHA

School # of Appearances
Mercyhurst (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Niagara (was in ECAC at time) (2002)

ECAC

School # of Appearances
Brown (2002)
Clarkson (2010)
Cornell (2010, 2011)
Dartmouth (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)
Harvard (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)
Princeton (2006)
St. Lawrence (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

Championships by conferernce

Conference # of titles
CHA None
ECAC None
HEA None
WCHA 11 (2001-2011)

Most Outstanding Player

Year Player School
2001 Maria Rooth
Maria Rooth
Maria Rooth is a Swedish ice hockey player. She is the only University of Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey player to have her jersey retired above the ice of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center...

 
Minnesota-Duluth
2002 Kristy Zamora Brown
2003 Caroline Ouellette
Caroline Ouellette
Caroline Ouellette is a Canadian ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canadian national women's ice hockey team and a member of Montreal Stars...

 
Minnesota-Duluth
2004 Krissy Wendell
Krissy Wendell
Krissy Wendell is an American women's ice hockey player. During the 2004-05 season, Krissy Wendell set an NCAA record for most shorthanded goals in one season with 7. After graduating from Minnesota, she had the career record for most shorthanded goals in a career with 16...

 
Minnesota
2005 Natalie Darwitz
Natalie Darwitz
Natalie Darwitz is an American ice hockey player. Natalie has been the Captain of the US Women's National Team since the start of the 2007-08 season...

 
Minnesota
2006 Jessie Vetter  Wisconsin
2007 Sara Bauer
Sara Bauer
Sara Bauer played for the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program. In four years, she accumulated 218 points. Bauer won the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award in 2006. During the 2008-09 NCAA season, the WCHA honored its Top 10 Players from the First Decade...

 
Wisconsin
2008 Kim Martin
Kim Martin
Kim Kristine Martin is a goaltender for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She plays her club hockey with AIK's women's team and has also played with Hammarby IF's junior men's team...

 
Minnesota Duluth
2009 Jessie Vetter  Wisconsin
2010 Emmanuelle Blais Minnesota-Duluth
2011 Hilary Knight
Hilary Knight (ice hockey)
Hilary Knight is an American ice hockey forward. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team....

, Meghan Duggan
Meghan Duggan
Meghan Duggan is an American ice hockey forward who represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal. She also represented the United States at three Women's World Championships, capturing two gold medals and one silver. Duggan played collegiate hockey with the...

 
Wisconsin

NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Championship

Year Champion Score Runner-up
2002 Elmira
Elmira College
Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in New York State's Southern Tier region.The college is noted as the oldest college still in existence which granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men...

 
2–1 Manhattanville
Manhattanville College
Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 it was known initially as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart...

2003 Elmira
Elmira College
Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in New York State's Southern Tier region.The college is noted as the oldest college still in existence which granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men...

 
5–1 Manhattanville
Manhattanville College
Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 it was known initially as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart...

2004 Middlebury
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

 
2–1 Wisconsin-Stevens Point
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
The University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point is a public university located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin...

2005 Middlebury
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

 
4–3 Elmira
Elmira College
Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in New York State's Southern Tier region.The college is noted as the oldest college still in existence which granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men...

2006 Middlebury
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

 
3–1 Plattsburgh State
2007 Plattsburgh State  2–1 Middlebury
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

2008 Plattsburgh State  3–2 Manhattanville
Manhattanville College
Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 it was known initially as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart...

2009 Amherst
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

 
4–3 (OT) Elmira
Elmira College
Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in New York State's Southern Tier region.The college is noted as the oldest college still in existence which granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men...

2010 Amherst
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

 
7–2 Norwich
Norwich University
Norwich University is a private university located in Northfield, Vermont . The university was founded in 1819 at Norwich, Vermont, as the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy. It is the oldest of six Senior Military Colleges, and is recognized by the United States Department of...

2011 Norwich
Norwich University
Norwich University is a private university located in Northfield, Vermont . The university was founded in 1819 at Norwich, Vermont, as the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy. It is the oldest of six Senior Military Colleges, and is recognized by the United States Department of...

 
5–2 Rochester
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...


See also

  • NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
    NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
    The annual NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship tournament determines the top men's ice hockey team in NCAA Division I and Division III. The semi-finals and finals of the Division I Championship are branded as the Frozen Four, a passing nod to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship - known...

  • Pre-NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Champions

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