Updated to show Connors named to Ivy League all-rookie team
The way the honours keep coming, maybe we should wait for the week to end before congratulating Maggie Connors.
On Thursday morning, the 18-year-old from St. John’s and freshman forward with the Princeton University Tigers women’s hockey team was named to the Ivy League’s all-rookie squad. That came a day after she was announced as an Ivy League first-team all-star.
Also on Wednesday, the Connors was selected as the Women’s Hockey Commissioners Association (WHCA) national rookie of the month for February. That came after she had been revealed as the ECAC conference rookie of the month on Tuesday..
Connors has 26 goals and 42 points in 31 games for seventh-ranked Princeton (20-6-5). Her goals total, which includes 10 tallies in February, is first among NCAA Division One rookies and second overall in the country.
In an 8-2 win over Brown University on Feb. 8, Connors became the first Princeton player in over 12 years to record five points in a game, scoring four goals and added an assist.
There would probably be even more awards for Connors if not for fellow Princeton rookie Sarah Fillier, the Georgetown, Ont., native who leads the entire nation in scoring with 54 points (20G, 34A).
Fillier, who like Connors is a member of Canada’s national women’s development team, was unanimously selected the Ivy League rookie of the year and MVP. She is also a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award as the top player in NCAA Division One women’s hockey.
After dispatching St. Lawrence in an ECAC quarter-final series, Connors, Fillier and their Tigers teammates are preparing to face the fourth-ranked Cornell Big Red in a semifinal that starts Saturday.
Cornell’s lineup includes junior forward Amy Curlew, a 21-year-old from Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
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