Category: Girls Ice Hockey

USA TODAY High School Sports Awards unveils Girls Hockey Player of the Year nominees

High school stars on the ice from the 2023-24 season

The top girls hockey players from across the country have been unveiled, with these 25 athletes making up the 2023-24 ALL-USA HSSA roster.

Each will now have the chance to be named the USA TODAY High School Sports Awards Girls Hockey Player of the Year in August. 

Ahead of the highly anticipated awards show, here is the ALL-USA TODAY HSSA Girls Hockey Team.

A huge congratulations to each of these talented athletes …

BFA’s Bri Jarvis rushes across the blue line.

Ashlyn Abrahamson, F, Devils Lake High School (North Dakota) — SR

Sofie Ancona, F, University Liggett School (Michigan) — SR

Lindzi Avar, F, Minnetonka High School (Minnesota) — SR

Ava Bartoli, D, Berlin High School (New Hampshire) — SR

Zoie Campbell, G, Dimond High School (Alaska) — SR

Autumn Cooper, F, Superior High School (Wisconsin) — SR

Riley Dunn, F, Pinkerton Academy (New Hampshire) — SR

Lauren Fox, D, Walled Lake Northern High School (Michigan) — SR

Emerson Homa, F, Gorham High School (Maine) — SR

Bri Jarvis, F, Bellows Free Academy (Vermont) — SR

Mackenzie Jones, D, Andover High School (Minnesota) — JR

Kate Kosobud, D, Moorhead High School (Minnesota) — SR

Maeve Lee, F, Hanover High School (New Hampshire) — SR

Ilsa Lindaman, F, Marshall School (Minnesota) — SR

Grace McCoshen, D, Northfield High School (Minnesota) — SR

Anna McGinty, G, Duxbury High School (Massachusetts) — SR

Brynn McKenney, D, Cheverus High School (Maine) — SR

Ayla Puppe, F, Northfield High School (Minnesota) — SR

Jessica Sperling, F, Morristown Beard School (New Jersey) — SR

Josie St. Martin, F, Stillwater Area High School (Minnesota) — SR

Adreanna Stamper, F, Cranbrook Kingswood Schools (Michigan) — SR

Kendall Sundby, D, St. Croix Central High School (Wisconsin) — SR

Mikayla Talbot, F, Cheverus High School (Maine) — SR

Jordin Williams, F, Brewer High School (Maine) — JR

Grace Zhan, G, Hill-Murray School (Minnesota) — SR

From the HSSA

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‘We have to work extra hard:’ New Jersey girl is co-captain of boys ice hockey team

When Carlie Van Tassel was in kindergarten, she saw Martin Brodeur on TV. She was hooked. Now, she’s the co-captain of the boys ice hockey team.

When Carlie Van Tassel was in kindergarten, she saw Martin Brodeur playing goal for the New Jersey Devils on television. She was quickly hooked on hockey.

She talked her mother into signing her up for a rec team at Skylands Ice World with boys, hoping to “just stand in the net.” Van Tassel played just one game as a goalie before switching to forward, but her hockey career has never waned.

Van Tassel had skated for hours on the synthetic ice at the Hockey Farm in Oak Ridge before joining a boys club team at age 10. She shifted to all-girls teams when checking became dangerous, going to nationals with the Montclair Blues twice in the past three years.

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But Vernon High School (Sussex County, New Jersey) doesn’t offer girls ice hockey, so Van Tassel is skating with the boys again.

“She’s grown up with these guys,” Vikings coach Ray Zimmerman said. “They all know her. It’s not like, ‘Oh, there’s a girl on the team,’ like she just came out of nowhere. … I don’t really acknowledge it.”

A senior right wing and co-captain, Van Tassel is the only girl on the Vikings hockey team. But when injuries claimed many of her teammates last winter, Van Tassel got more ice time than almost anyone.

Read the rest of the story at the Daily Record.