The USAFA Hockey Banquet was held in Colorado Sptings earlier today. Booster Club Awards First Goal Placks Matt Becker Sean Bertsch Derrick Burnett Owen Kelly Scott Kozlak Blake Page Mike Phillipich Brad Sellers (every freshman forward scored) Final Offensive Player of the month - Brent Olson Final Defensive Player of the month - Matt Charbonneau Offensive Player of the year - Brent Olson Defensive Player of the year - Andrew Volkening Strength and conditioning award Jeff Hajner Top seven awards Jim Bowman Award (scholar athlete) Frank Schiavone Most improved player (selected by teammates) Brent Olson John Matchefts Award (fourth classman of the year) (selected by teammates) Derrick Burnett Larry Cronk Award (most inspirational) (selected by teammates) presented by Cronk to Matt Charbonneau Defensive Player of the year Greg Flynn Chuck Delich Award (mvp) (selected by teammates) Presentd by Chuck's son Phil to Andrew Volkening Vic Heyliger Award (dedication, character, leadership, work ethic) Matt Charbonneau Next Year's Captains Mike Phillipich Brent Olson Jeff Hajner Approximate quips (i am not a reporter and i didn't have a tape recorder, so these may not be verbatim) Coach Serratore Quips [ name deleted ] played in the AHA and regional with mono. I should have told to opposing coaches to try to get him more room. When a team jells it is like a self licking ice creme cone (to seniors) when i was out recruiting you, i tried to sell you guys a dream and you bought it when a ncaa briefing at the regional was running long and they needed to talk about TV time outs and the briefer said, "all of you've been here before, i don't have to go over this" that made him feel good. Eric Ehn Quips Tolls (SID dave toller) would give me note cards for press conferences so i'd know what to say. I guess he learned to do that dealing with the football team. All are games are home games. There's an air force base near every place we play, and blue line club members at all our games. One player (didn't catch the name) has 28 NCAA tournament hats cuz they wouldn't fit anybody else Bryan Becker Quips (to trainer) Thanks for the rehab, the surgery didn't ruin my golf swing (to an underclassman) Thanks for coming in and taking my spot /"\ ASCII Ribbon | charlie shub (719) 262-3492 \ / Campaign Against | [log in to unmask] (mobile) 761-8778 X HTML in e-mail | http://cs.uccs.edu/~cdash (fax) 262-3369 / \ and news | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs