Ella Boerger at a PWHL Minnesota game discussing the league and her rookie NCAA season at St. Thomas (Video @ PWHL) The NCAA's Rookie of the Year 'Watch List' put out by the Hockey Commissioners Association is a star studded group. In net, Eve Gascon, Uma Corniea, Sedona Blair, Ava McNaughton, and Annelies Bergmann are all cornerstones for their programs. Running through the list, the number of players with U-18 national team experience is vast with the likes of Canadian's Emmalee Pais and Karel Prefontaine, Americans Ava Lindsay, Cassie Hall, and Joy Dunne, and international players like Sofia Nuttininen and Emma Kreisz. There's also a group of players who have already exploded into the spotlight like Minnesota's reigning Ms. Hockey Ella Boerger. Here's the full NCAA Rooke of the Year Watch List: College Hockey America Alaina Giampietro, F, Robert Morris (26 GP, 11-9-20) (Strongsville, OH) Sofia Nuutinen, F, Mercyhurst (26 GP, 9-15-24) (Vantaa, Finland) Stella Retrum, F, Penn State (28 GP, 11-10-21) (Maple Grove, MN) ECAC Hockey Annelies Bergmann, G, Cornell (13-4-1, 2.03, .913) (Detroit, MI) Uma Corniea, G, Princeton (6-5-1, 2.41, .908) (Edina, MN) Kahlen Lamarche, F, Quinnipiac (29 GP, 8-19-27) (Sudbury, ON) Maddie Leaney, F, Union (26 GP, 9-7-16) (Maple Ridge, BC) Kaia Malachino, F, Colgate (28 GP, 7-11-18) (Brighton, MI) Emma Pais, F, Colgate (28 GP, 13-13-26) (London, ON) Madeline Palumbo, F, Colgate (28 GP, 6-13-19) (Courtice, ON) Karel Prefontaine, F, Cornell (23 GP, 8-10-18) (Gatineau, PQ) Stephanie Stainton, F, Yale (21 GP, 7-8-15) (Oakville, ON) Hockey East Sedona Blair, G, UNH (12-12-2, 2.35, .917) (Eden Prairie, MN) Allie Lalonde, F, Northeastern (28 GP, 7-8-15) (Irvine, CA) Sammy Taber, F, Boston College (27 GP, 10-17-27) (Tewksbury, MA) NEWHA Jenna Chaplain, F, Assumption (28 GP, 6-13-19) (Peabody, MA) Isabel Chaput, F, Sacred Heart (29 GP, 10-5-15) (Wixom, MI) Juliana Herman, D, Saint Anselm (25 GP, 2-5-7) (The Pas, MB) WCHA Ella Boerger, F, St. Thomas (27 GP, 9-10-19) (Andover, MN) Joy Dunne, F. Ohio State (24 GP, 13-9-22) (O’Fallon, MO) Eve Gascon, G, Minnesota Duluth (6-7-1, 1.71, .945) (Mascouche, PQ) Cassie Hall, F, Wisconsin (26 GP, 17-5-22) (South Lyon, MI) Emma Kreisz, F, Minnesota (26 GP, 4-16-20) (Budapest, Hungary) Ava Lindsay, F, Minnesota (26 GP, 8-9-17) (Minnetonka, MN) Ava McNaughton, G, Wisconsin (11-2-0, 1.58, .928) (Seven Fields, PA)
