Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey


Yale University women's ice hockey is an NCAA Division I varsity ice hockey program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
One of the oldest varsity women's ice hockey programs in the country, Yale women's ice hockey dates back to 1975. Beginning as a club sport, the program gained varsity team status in 1977–78.
Yale competes in the ECAC Hockey League, along with Ivy League foes Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown. Both the Yale men's and women's ice-hockey teams play at Ingalls Rink, also known as "The Whale".
YWIH participates in Bulldog Buddies, a program at Yale New Haven Hospital that teams children with brain tumors with one of the Yale Athletic Teams. In 2011, they adopted a nine-year-old girl with a brain tumor, she goes to all of the home games and calls them when she is in the blues.

Coaches

The current head coach is Hilary Witt,, who has been serving in the head coaching position since the 2002–03 season. Kimberly Mathias and Paul Nemetz-Carlson serve as associate head coach and assistant coach respectively.
Witt was named ECAC Women's Coach of the Year in 2002–03, and became Yale's all-time leader in wins in 2005. The 2004–05 squad set the school record for overall wins and conference wins, earning a trip to the ECAC semifinals for the first time. The 2007–08 team broke the school record for goals in a season with 96 and finished with the second-most wins in school history, 15.

History

debuted its women’s ice hockey program on December 9, 1975. Its first match was versus Choate-Rosemary Hall. The Bulldogs prevailed by a 5–3 tally. Two years later, the Bulldogs hockey program would attain varsity status.
Laurie Belliveau played for Yale from 1994–1998. In four years, she participated in 98 games. Statistically, she logged 5,809 minutes, recorded 4,262 saves, and registered a.911 save percentage while posting a 4.32 goals against average. She has averaged more than 43 saves per game. In 1994–95, Belliveau became the first freshman in any sport to earn Ivy League Player of the Year honors. During the season, she made an ECAC record 78 saves in a game. The opponent was the Providence Friars women's ice hockey program.
In 1998, Laurie Belliveau was one of two Ivy League players named first team All-Americans. This was the first time that Ivy League women's hockey players were bestowed such an honor. On April 3, 2011 former Yale player Mandi Schwartz succumbed to recurrent acute myeloid leukemia at age 23. She was a forward on Yale's women's hockey team and had a string of 73 consecutive games played.
In April 2011, the Yale Bulldogs introduced the Mandi Schwartz Award. The award is given in acknowledgement of a Yale Bulldog player’s courage, grit and determination. Aleca Hughes was named as the first winner of the award.

Year by year

YearCoachWLTConferenceConf.
W		Conf.
L		Conf.
T		FinishConference TournamentNCAA Tournament
2019-20Mark Bolding---------
2018–19Joakim Flygh8183ECAC71239th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2017–18Joakim Flygh10174ECAC81228th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Clarkson Did not qualify
2016–17Joakim Flygh10174ECAC81227th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. St. Lawrence Did not qualify
2015–16Joakim Flygh10172ECAC91129th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2014–15Joakim Flygh15151ECAC121007th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard Did not qualify
2013–14Joakim Flygh9167ECAC6977th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard Did not qualify
2012–13Joakim Flygh5213ECAC415310th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2011–12Joakim Flygh1271ECAC120112th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2010–11Joakim Flygh9173ECAC812210th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2009–10Hilary Witt10163ECAC813110th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2008–09Hilary Witt12161ECAC81319th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2007–08Hilary Witt11146ECAC81047th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. St. Lawrence Did not qualify
2006–07Hilary Witt15142ECAC101027th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard Did not qualify
2005–06Hilary Witt11155ECAC8848th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. St. Lawrence Did not qualify
2004–05Hilary Witt16151ECAC12714th ECACWon Quarterfinals vs. Princeton
Lost Semifinals vs. Harvard 		Did not qualify
2003–04Hilary Witt12163ECAC81006th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Dartmouth Did not qualify
2002–03Hilary Witt9202ECAC51106th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Princeton Did not qualify
2001–02John Marchetti9193ECAC31217th ECACLost Quarterfinals vs. Brown Did not qualify
2000–01John Marchetti3232ECAC221112th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
1999–2000John Marchetti6221ECAC221112th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
1998–99John Marchetti5213ECAC221313th ECACDid not qualifyDid not qualify
1997–98John Marchetti7192
1996–97Joe Snecinski4230
1995–96Joe Snecinski2203
1994–95Joe Snecinski3210
1993–94Joe Snecinski4161
1992–93Joe Snecinski4141
1991–92Barry Curseaden6131
1990–91Barry Curseaden5130
1989–90Barry Curseaden4121
1988–89Vic Russo5111
1987–88Vic Russo7110
1986–87Dave Beecher5140
1985–86Kathy Lenahan1280
1984–85Kathy Lenahan1091
1983–84Peter Downey891
1982–83Peter Downey3151
1981–82Tyler Benson4100
1980–81Tyler Benson670
1979–80Tyler Benson850
1978–79Tyler Benson861
1977–78Tyler Benson751

International