> SEVEN GOPHERS TO PARTICIPATE AT
> WOMEN'S HOCKEY OLYMPIC FESTIVAL
>
*** just a note from me: Winny Brodt will also be playing on the team
***
> [July 22, 1998]
>
> Minnesota women's hockey coach Laura Halldorson
> and six of her team members for the upcoming
> season have been chosen to participate at the
> Olympic Festival, Aug. 22-31, at the Olympic
> Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y.
>
> Halldorson, who was named the first women1s
> hockey coach of the year by the American Hockey
> Coaches Association this year, will serve as an
> assistant to Yale men's head coach Tim Taylor.
>
> Three Gopher forwards will participate, including
> returning sophomore Ambria Thomas and
> newcomers Jenny Schmidgall and Laura Slominski.
>
> Thomas scored 28 goals and 51 points for
> Minnesota in 1997-98, leading the nation with seven
> game-winning goals. She was a member of the 1996
> U.S. Junior National team and participated in the at
> last year's Olympic tryout camp.
>
> Schmidgall, who signed with the Gophers in
> November, 1996, spent last season with Team USA,
> scoring nine goals and 21 points in 30 games while
> earning a gold medal at the Olympic Games in
> Nagano, Japan. She is a two-time U.S. Junior
> National team member.
>
> Slominski, the 1998 Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award
> winner, who will also join the Gophers for her first
> season this fall, set school records at Burnsville last
> season with 44 goals and 72 points. She was also
> named the state1s female High School Athlete of the
> Year by the Mount Olivet All Sportsmen1s Club.
>
> The Gophers will have two members of their defense
> participate in sophomores Brittny Ralph and
> Courtney Kennedy.
>
> Ralph, who played on the 1996 U.S. Junior National
> team and attended last year's Olympic tryout camp,
> led the Gopher defense with 15 goals and 25 points
> last season. She was second nationally on defense
> in goals scored.
>
> One of three Minnesota newcomers to participate at
> the Olympic Festival, Kennedy was the top
> goal-scorer on defense in the nation last year,
> tallying 18 goals in 24 games at Colby College. She
> is also a two-time U.S. Junior National team member.
>
> The sixth Gopher to earn a spot on the team is
> sophomore goalie Erica Killewald. As Minnesota's
> number netminder last season, she posted an 18-5-3
> record along with a 2.21 goals against average, .903
> save percentage and five shutouts.
>
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