ECAC Hockey Preseason All-League Team
ECAC Hockey Preseason Coaches' Poll
ITHACA, N.Y. – If ECAC Hockey's coaches are correct, the Cornell women's hockey team will win its fourth consecutive regular-season league title in 2012-13. In a poll of the coaches released by the league on Monday morning, Cornell was selected as the conference's top squad entering the new season.
Cornell has won the coaches' poll for the third consecutive season. The Big Red claimed the league's regular season title for the last three years and won the ECAC Women's Hockey Tournament in 2010 and 2011.
The Big Red got more good news Monday morning as ECAC Hockey announced its Preseason All-League Team. Cornell had three of the team's first members as defensemen Laura Fortino and Lauriane Rougeau were joined by forward Brianne Jenner.
All three were on the Preseason All-League Team last year and followed that with selections to the ECAC Hockey First Team after the season.
The other members of the Preseason All-League team were Clarkson goalie Erica Howe, Quinnipiac forward Kelly Babstock and Harvard forward Jillian Dempsey.
In the coaches' poll, Cornell claimed nine of the 12 available first-place votes and finished with 119 points. Harvard was the only other team to earn first-place votes, garnering three and taking second in the poll overall with 109 points.
The Crimson was followed by St. Lawrence – last year's tournament champion and an NCAA Tournament team – Clarkson, Dartmouth, Quinnipiac, Princeton, Rensselaer, Brown, Colgate, Union and Yale.
ECAC Hockey Women's Preseason All-League Team
G: Erica Howe, Clarkson
D: Laura Fortino, Cornell
D: Lauriane Rougeau, Cornell
F: Kelly Babstock, Quinnipiac
F: Jillian Dempsey, Harvard
F: Brianne Jenner, Cornell
ECAC Hockey Women's Preseason Coaches' Poll
1. Cornell (9 first-place votes), 119 points
2. Harvard (3), 109 points
3. St. Lawrence, 100 points
4. Clarkson, 90 points
5. Dartmouth, 86 points
6. Quinnipiac, 71 points
7. Princeton, 62 points
8. Rensselaer, 46 points
9. Brown, 40 points
10. Colgate, 35 points
11. Union, 22 points
12. Yale, 12 points
