Western Collegiate Hockey Association women's champions

The women’s division of the WCHA is a college athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the 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...

's Division I. Each team plays 28 league games, but with only eight teams, each team plays four games against every other, in the form of two home games and two road games.

The women's WCHA seeds all 8 teams, and conducts an standard 8 team tournament at a single site over 4 days. The winner receives the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Championships by season

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association
Western Collegiate Hockey Association
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference....

's women's champions have been:

Season	Regular Season Champion	Tournament Champion	NCAA National Champion	Notes
1999-00	Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota-Duluth	—	Bemidji State Bemidji State University Bemidji State University is a public state university in Bemidji, Minnesota, USA, located on the shores of Lake Bemidji. It is a part of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities .-History:BSU was founded in 1919 as Bemidji State Normal School... , 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... , Minnesota-Duluth University of Minnesota Duluth The University of Minnesota Duluth is a regional branch of the University of Minnesota system located in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. As Duluth's public research university, UMD offers 13 bachelor's degrees in 74 majors, graduate programs in 24 different fields, a two-year program at the School of... , Minnesota State Minnesota State University, Mankato Minnesota State University, Mankato is a public four-year university located in Mankato, Minnesota, a community of 53,000 located southwest of Minneapolis-St. Paul. As of Fall 2011, the student body is the third-largest in the state of Minnesota with over 15,000 students... , Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of The Ohio State University, named after the state tree, the Buckeye. The Buckeyes participate in the NCAA's Division I in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports... , St. Cloud State and Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers The Wisconsin Badgers are the collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This NCAA Division I athletic program has teams in football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country, tennis, swimming, wrestling, track and field, rowing, golf, and softball... begin conference play
2000-01	Minnesota	Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota-Duluth	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... begins awarding a national championship NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship The annual NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship tournaments determine the top women's ice hockey teams in NCAA 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... for women's ice hockey
2001-02	Minnesota	Minnesota	Minnesota-Duluth
2002-03	Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota-Duluth
2003-04	Minnesota	Minnesota	Minnesota
2004-05	Minnesota	Minnesota	Minnesota	North Dakota North Dakota Fighting Sioux hockey The North Dakota Fighting Sioux men's ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team at the Grand Forks campus of the University of North Dakota. They are members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I ice hockey... begins conference play
2005-06	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin
2006-07	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin
2007-08	Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota-Duluth
2008-09	Minnesota	Wisconsin	Wisconsin
2009-10	Minnesota & Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota-Duluth	Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth were named regular season conference co-champions after finishing tied for first. Minnesota-Duluth got the top seed for the conference tournament.
2010-11	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin

Championships by school

School	Regular Season Championships	Tournament Championships	NCAA National Championships	Last Regular Season Championship	Last Tournament Championship	Last NCAA National Championship
Bemidji State Bemidji State Beavers women's ice hockey -History:On February 27, 2010, Bemidji State ends its 14 game playoff losing streak in a 2-1 victory over St. Cloud State. The next day, the Beavers defeated St. Cloud State in Game 3, and advanced to the WCHA Final Face-Off for the first time in school history. Zuzana Tomcikova had 27 saves and...	0	0	0	—	—	—
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...	5	3	2	2010*	2005	2005
Minnesota-Duluth	4	5	5	2010*	2010	2010
Minnesota State Minnesota State University, Mankato Minnesota State University, Mankato is a public four-year university located in Mankato, Minnesota, a community of 53,000 located southwest of Minneapolis-St. Paul. As of Fall 2011, the student body is the third-largest in the state of Minnesota with over 15,000 students...	0	0	0	—	—	—
North Dakota North Dakota Fighting Sioux women's ice hockey The North Dakota Fighting Sioux women's ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team at the Grand Forks campus of the University of North Dakota. They are members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I ice hockey...	0	0	0	—	—	—
Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey The Ohio State Buckeyes women’s ice hockey team represents Ohio State University in NCAA Division I competition in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The team plays homegames at OSU Ice Rink, located on the Ohio State campus in Columbus, Ohio.-History:...	0	0	0	—	—	—
St. Cloud State	0	0	0	—	—	—
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	4	4	2011	2011	2011

* Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth were named regular season co-champions in 2010.

Prior to the NCAA establishing a 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...

championship (2000–01 season), the American Women's College Hockey Alliance held a national championship from the 1997–98 season to the 1999–2000 season. Minnesota won the AWCHA championship in 2000.

Location of Women's WCHA tournaments

2000 Bloomington Ice Gardens Bloomington, Minnesota
Bloomington, Minnesota
Bloomington is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota in Hennepin County. Located on the north bank of the Minnesota River above its confluence with the Mississippi River, Bloomington lies at the heart of the southern...
2001 Rochester Recreation Center Rochester, Minnesota
Rochester, Minnesota
Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County. Located on both banks of the Zumbro River, The city has a population of 106,769 according to the 2010 United States Census, making it Minnesota's third-largest city and the largest outside of the...
2002 Fogerty Arena Blaine, Minnesota
Blaine, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 44,942 people, 15,898 households, and 12,177 families residing in the city. The population density is 1,330 people per square mile . There are 16,169 housing units at an average density of 477.6 per square mile...
2003 Ralph Engelsted Arena Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 52,838, while that of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461...
2004 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
2005 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota
2006 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota
2008 Duluth Entertainment Convention Center Duluth, Minnesota
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,...
2009 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota
2010 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota
2011 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota

WCHA player of the year

Year	Player	Position	School
1999-00	Jenny Schmidgall-Potter	F	UMD
2000-01	Courtney Kennedy Courtney Kennedy Courtney Kennedy is an American ice hockey player. She won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics....	D	UM
2001-02	Ronda Curtin Ronda Curtin Ronda Curtin played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers ice hockey team. During her career, she was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, and she was selected to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association women’s team of the decade in the 2000s...	D	UM
2002-03	Jenny Schmidgall-Potter	F	UMD
2003-04	Krissy Wendell	F	UM
2004-05	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...	F	UM
2005-06	Sara Bauer	F	UW
2006-07	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...	F	UW
2007-08	Tessa Bonhomme Tessa Bonhomme Tessa Bonhomme is an Olympic Gold Medalist and member of the Canadian national women's hockey team. She was also a member and co-captain of the Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey team in the NCAA....	D	OSU
2008-09	Hilary Knight Hilary Knight Hilary Knight is an American writer-artist who is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise and others in the Eloise series....	F	UW
2009-10	Tie: Felicia Nelson Zuzana Tomcikova Zuzana Tomčíková Zuzana Tomčíková is a member of the Slovakia women's national ice hockey team and also plays for the Bemidji State Beavers. Tomčíková was part of the team that finished in eighth place at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games...	F (Nelson) G (Tomcikova)	SCSU BSU
2010–11	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...	F	Wisconsin

Student-Athlete of the Year

Year	Player	Position	School
1999-00	Katie Beaudy Shannon Kennedy	G(Beaudy) F(Kennedy)	MSU UM
2000-01	Bre Dedrickson	G	BSU
2001-02	Guylaine Hache	F	BSU
2002-03	Anik Cote	G	BSU
2003-04	Emma Laaksonen Emma Laaksonen Emma Laaksonen is a Finnish female ice hockey defenseman. She played on the women's ice hockey team for Finland at the 1998 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal. She was the youngest woman on the team . Laaksonen played for the Ohio State women's ice hockey team from the 2000-01 to 2003-04...	D	OSU
2004-05	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...	F	UMD
2005-06	Riitta Schaublin	G	UMD
2006-07	Riitta Schaublin	G	UMD
2007-08	Casie Hanson	F	UND
2008-09	Gigi Marvin	F	UM
2009-10	Caitlin Hogan	F	SCSU

Defensive Player of the Year

Year	Player	Position	School
1999-00	Winny Brodt	D	UM
2000-01	Courtney Kennedy	D	UM
2001-02	Ronda Curtin Ronda Curtin Ronda Curtin played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers ice hockey team. During her career, she was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, and she was selected to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association women’s team of the decade in the 2000s...	D	UM
2002-03	Ronda Curtin	D	UM
2003-04	Molly Engstrom Molly Engstrom Molly Engstrom is an American ice hockey player of Swedish descent. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics...	D	UW
2004-05	Molly Engstrom	D	UW
2005-06	Bobbi-Jo Slusar Bobbi-Jo Slusar Bobbi-Jo Slusar was a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team from 2006 to 2008. Currently, she played for the Brampton Thunder in the Canadian Women's Hockey League and competed in the 2010 Clarkson Cup. During the 2010-11 season, she competed for the Strathmore Rockies of the WWHL...	D	UM
2006-07	Meaghan Mikkelson Meaghan Mikkelson Meaghan Mikkelson , is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team and also plays for the Edmonton Chimos . Mikkelson also won a gold medal during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. She was selected third overall by Team Alberta CWHL in the 2011 CWHL Draft...	D	UW
2007-08	Tessa Bonhomme Tessa Bonhomme Tessa Bonhomme is an Olympic Gold Medalist and member of the Canadian national women's hockey team. She was also a member and co-captain of the Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey team in the NCAA....	D	OSU
2008-09	Melanie Gagnon	D	UM
2009-10	Anne Schleper Anne Schleper Anne Schleper is a women's ice hockey player for the Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey program who will be making her debut for the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship.-Playing career:From April 4 to 12, 2011, she was one of 30...	D	UM

Rookie of the Year

Year	Player	Position	School
1999-00	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...	F	UMD
2000-01	Meghan Hunter	F	UW
2001-02	Jeni Creary	F	OSU
2002-03	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...	F	UM
2003-04	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...	F	UW
2004-05	Bobbi Ross	F	UM
2005-06	Gigi Marvin	F	UM
2006-07	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...	F	UW
2007-08	Haley Irwin Haley Irwin Haley Irwin is a member of the 2009–10 Hockey Canada national women's team and also plays for the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs.-Playing career:...	F	UMD
2008-09	Monique Lamoureux Monique Lamoureux Monique Lamoureux is an American ice hockey forward. She was named to the United States women's national ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics as was her twin sister Jocelyne, where they captured a silver medal with team USA...	F	UM
2009-10	Hokey Langan	F	OSU
2010-11	Amanda Kessel Amanda Kessel Amanda Kessel is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She also plays for the Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey program.-Playing career:...	F	Minnesota

Coach of the Year

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...

Year	Player	School
1999-00	Shannon Miller Shannon Miller (ice hockey) Shannon Miller, is the former head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team which won the Silver medal in ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She has also won five NCAA Division I championships with the Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey. She is from Melfort,...	UMD
2000-01	Tie: Laura Halldorson Kerry Wethington	UM St. Cloud State St. Cloud State Huskies women's ice hockey The St. Cloud State Huskies women's hockey ice program represents St. Cloud State University, and participate in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.-History:...
2001-02	Laura Halldorson	UM
2002-03	Tie: Mark Johnson Shannon Miller	Wisconsin UMD
2003-04	Jeff Vizenor	MSU
2004-05	Laura Halldorson	UM
2005-06	Mark Johnson	Wisconsin
2006-07	Mark Johnson	Wisconsin
2007-08	Brad Frost	UM
2009-10	Steve Sertich	BSU Bemidji State Beavers women's ice hockey -History:On February 27, 2010, Bemidji State ends its 14 game playoff losing streak in a 2-1 victory over St. Cloud State. The next day, the Beavers defeated St. Cloud State in Game 3, and advanced to the WCHA Final Face-Off for the first time in school history. Zuzana Tomcikova had 27 saves and...
2010-11	Mark Johnson	Wisconsin

Scoring champion

Year	Player	Position	School
2003-04	Jenny Potter	F	UMD
2004-05	Natalie Darwitz	F	UM
2005-06	Erica McKenzie	F	UM
2006-07	Sara Bauer	F	Wisconsin
2007-08	Haley Irwin	F	UMD
2008-09	Monique Lamoureux	F	UM
2009-10	Hokey Langan	F	OSU
2010-11	Meghan Duggan	F	Wisconsin

Goaltending champion

Year	Player	School
2003-04	Meghan Horras	UW
2004-05	Jody Horak	UM
2005-06	Kim Hanlon	UM
2006-07	Christine Dufour	UW
2007-08	Jessie Vetter	UW
2008-09	Alyssa Grogan	UM
2009-10	Noora Raty Noora Räty Noora Räty is a member of the Finland women's national ice hockey team and also plays for the Minnesota Golden Gophers .-Playing career:...	UM

Patty Kazmaier Award

Year	Winner	Position	School
2005	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...	Forward Forward (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a forward is a player position on the ice whose primary responsibility is to score goals. Generally, the forwards try to stay in three different lanes, also known as thirds, of the ice going from goal to goal. It is not mandatory however, to stay in a lane. Staying in a lane aids in...	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...
2006	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...	Forward Forward (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a forward is a player position on the ice whose primary responsibility is to score goals. Generally, the forwards try to stay in three different lanes, also known as thirds, of the ice going from goal to goal. It is not mandatory however, to stay in a lane. Staying in a lane aids in...	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...
2009	Jessie Vetter	Goaltender Goaltender In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...	Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...
2011	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...	Forward Forward (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a forward is a player position on the ice whose primary responsibility is to score goals. Generally, the forwards try to stay in three different lanes, also known as thirds, of the ice going from goal to goal. It is not mandatory however, to stay in a lane. Staying in a lane aids in...	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...

Events

Feb 6, 2010: The No. 9 Wisconsin women's hockey team (16-10-3, 13-9-1 WCHA) defeated the Bemidji State Beavers (8-14-7, 7-9-7 WCHA), 6-1, in the first ever Culver’s Camp Randall Hockey Classic at Camp Randall Stadium
Camp Randall Stadium
Camp Randall Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. It has been the home of the Wisconsin Badgers football team in rudimentary form since 1895, and as a complete stadium since 1917. It is located on the center-southern region of the University of Wisconsin campus. The stadium seats...

. The Badgers played in front of an NCAA-record crowd of 8,263 fans in the second-ever women’s hockey outdoor showdown. Sophomore Carolyne Prevost scored the first goal in Camp Randall history at the 16:53 mark and backhanded it in to put the Badgers up 1-0. The Badgers dominated offensively, outshooting the Beavers 42-13. Freshman Becca Ruegsegger (Lakewood, Colo.) finished with 13 saves in net for Wisconsin,

January 28-29, 2011: Alex Rigsby
Alex Rigsby
Alex Rigsby has competed for the United States National women's ice hockey team in numerous tournaments. Currently she competes for the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program.-Playing career:...

made a combined 50 saves and allowed three goals as the top-ranked Badgers earned a tie and victory against Minnesota. She 23 saves on January 28 in a 2-2 overtime tie. The following day, she made 27 saves while earning her 17th victory of the season. The match was played before a women’s college hockey record crowd of 10,668. Over the two game period, she had a .943 saves percentage and had four shutout periods, including the one 5:00 overtime segment. She is now unbeaten in her last 11 games and her .900 winning percentage leads the WCHA. Her 1.95 GAA is first in the WCHA.

Team of the Decade

Player	Position	School	Nationality
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...	Forward	Wisconsin
Tessa Bonhomme Tessa Bonhomme Tessa Bonhomme is an Olympic Gold Medalist and member of the Canadian national women's hockey team. She was also a member and co-captain of the Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey team in the NCAA....	Defense	Ohio State
Ronda Curtin Ronda Curtin Ronda Curtin played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers ice hockey team. During her career, she was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, and she was selected to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association women’s team of the decade in the 2000s...	Defense	Minnesota
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...	Forward	Minnesota
Molly Engstrom Molly Engstrom Molly Engstrom is an American ice hockey player of Swedish descent. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics...	Defense	Wisconsin
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...	Forward	Minnesota-Duluth
Jenny Schmidgall-Potter	Forward	Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth
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...	Forward	Minnesota-Duluth
Jessie Vetter	Goaltender	Wisconsin
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...	Forward	Minnesota

Active players

The following active WCHA players will represent their respective countries in Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held at Canada Hockey Place, home of the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks, and at UBC Winter Sports Centre, home of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport's UBC Thunderbirds. Twelve teams competed in the men's event and eight teams competed in the...

Player	NCAA school	Nationality	Position	Goals	Assists	Points	Medal
Elin Holmlöv Elin Holmlöv Elin Holmlöv is a Swedish ice hockey player. She play forward position for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She won the bronze medal at the 2007 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships in Winnipeg, Manitoba.She played also for the Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey...	Minnesota-Duluth		Forward				4th Place
Haley Irwin Haley Irwin Haley Irwin is a member of the 2009–10 Hockey Canada national women's team and also plays for the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs.-Playing career:...	Minnesota-Duluth		Forward				Gold
Jocelyne Lamoureux Jocelyne Lamoureux Jocelyne Lamoureux is an American ice hockey forward. She was named to the United States women's national ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics along with her twin sister Monique, winning a silver medal. Both sisters have dual American and Canadian citizenship...	North Dakota		Forward				Silver
Monique Lamoureux Monique Lamoureux Monique Lamoureux is an American ice hockey forward. She was named to the United States women's national ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics as was her twin sister Jocelyne, where they captured a silver medal with team USA...	North Dakota		Forward				Silver
Heidi Pelttari	Minnesota State		Forward				Bronze
Mariia Posa	Minnesota State		Forward				Bronze
Noora Raty	Minnesota		Goaltender				Bronze
Nina Tikkinen	Minnesota State		Forward				Bronze
Zuzana Tomčíková ‎	Bemidji State		Goaltender				8th
Saara Tuominen	Minnesota Duluth		Forward				Bronze

Former players

The following former NCAA players will represent their respective countries in Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics