NCAA award for the outstanding women's ice hockey player
Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Sport Ice hockey Awarded for Top player in NCAA Division I women’s ice hockey.[1] First award 1998 Most recent Izzy Daniel
The Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award is given to the top female college ice hockey player in the United States . The award is presented during the women's annual ice hockey championship, the Frozen Four . The award was first presented in 1998.
The award is named in honor of the late Patty Kazmaier-Sandt , a four-year varsity letter winner and All Ivy League honoree for the Princeton University women's ice hockey team from 1981 through 1986. She also played field hockey and lacrosse. She died on February 15, 1990, at the age of 28 from a rare blood disease. Patty was the daughter of Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier .
Year Winner Position School Hometown 1998 Brandy Fisher Forward New Hampshire Potsdam, New York 1999 A.J. Mleczko Forward Harvard Nantucket, Massachusetts 2000 Ali Brewer Goaltender Brown Racine, Wisconsin 2001 Jennifer Botterill Forward Harvard Ottawa, Ontario 2002 Brooke Whitney Forward Northeastern Snohomish, Washington 2003 Jennifer Botterill Forward Harvard Ottawa, Ontario 2004 Angela Ruggiero Defense Harvard Panorama City, California 2005 Krissy Wendell Forward Minnesota Brooklyn Park, Minnesota 2006 Sara Bauer Forward Wisconsin St. Catharines, Ontario 2007 Julie Chu Forward Harvard Bridgeport, Connecticut 2008 Sarah Vaillancourt Forward Harvard Sherbrooke, Quebec 2009 Jessie Vetter Goaltender Wisconsin Cottage Grove, Wisconsin 2010 Vicki Bendus Forward Mercyhurst Wasaga Beach, Ontario 2011 Meghan Duggan Forward Wisconsin Danvers, Massachusetts 2012 Brianna Decker Forward Wisconsin Dousman, Wisconsin 2013 Amanda Kessel Forward Minnesota Madison, Wisconsin 2014 Jamie Lee Rattray Forward Clarkson Kanata, Ontario 2015 Alex Carpenter Forward Boston College Cambridge, Massachusetts 2016 Kendall Coyne Forward Northeastern Palos Park, Illinois 2017 Ann-Renée Desbiens Goaltender Wisconsin La Malbaie, Quebec 2018 Daryl Watts Forward Boston College Toronto, Ontario 2019 Loren Gabel Forward Clarkson Kitchener, Ontario 2020 Élizabeth Giguère Forward Clarkson Quebec City, Quebec 2021 Aerin Frankel Goaltender Northeastern Briarcliff Manor, New York 2022 Taylor Heise Forward Minnesota Lake City, Minnesota 2023 Sophie Jaques Defense Ohio State Toronto, Ontario 2024 Izzy Daniel Forward Cornell Minneapolis, Minnesota
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