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Queen's women's hockey team names nine new recruits
Posted: May 6th, 2013 @ 3:28pm
There will be weekends this winter when the Crouse family from Mount Brydges, Ont., will only have to make one trip to watch two children play hockey.
Kyla Crouse, a forward with the London Devilettes of the Provincial Women's Hockey League, is one of nine players who have committed to study at Queen's University and play for the defending Ontario University Athletics champion Golden Gaels, varsity women's hockey coach Matt Holmberg has announced.
Her brother, Lawson Crouse, was the first-round choice of the Kingston Frontenacs, the fifth selection overall, in last month's Ontario Hockey League draft.
The Gaels are facing a significant turnover in personnel for the coming season. Of the nine graduating members of a Queen's team that made its second trip in three years to the national championship tournament, seven have indicated they will not be returning for post-graduate study and a fifth intercollegiate season.
"While it will be impossible to replace instantly the leadership and experience of our seven graduating athletes, our 2013 rookies may be as strong and deep a group as we have had for some time," Holmberg said, in a news release. "Overall they promise an exciting blend of speed, skill, tenacity, determination and size. We fully expect that they will quickly earn opportunities - to contribute."
Six of the nine incoming freshmen played with one of the top six teams in the Provincial Women's Hockey League last season. Queen's was able to secure commitments from more incoming recruits who played in the league's Final Four tournament last month than any other school in North America.
Four of them played in the gold medal game at that event, including Devilettes Crouse and Clare McKellar, a forward and future arts student from London, and defenders Marie-Pierre Pelissou of Toronto and Micaela Smith of Cobourg from the league champion Whitby Wolves. Pelissou will be a science student while Smith plans to study physical education.
The others who have committed to Queen's are: Danielle Bishoff, a defender from Calgary who will be studying chemical engineering; Megan Farrell, a forward and soon-to-be arts student from Barrie who played for the Etobicoke Dolphins of the PWHL; Michele Knecht, a forward from North York who played in the Provincial league for the Durham West Lightning and will be studying kinesiology; Nadia Larocca, a forward who played for the Mississauga Chiefs in the Provincial league and will be studying arts at Queen's; and Jessica Wakefield, a forward from Lucan, Ont., bound to study science after a season with the Provincial league's Bluewater Hawks.
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