University of Minnesota Athletics
Four Gophers Earn All-American Status
3/19/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Hockey
MINNEAPOLIS - Gophers Hannah Brandt, Dani Cameranesi, Rachel Ramsey and Lee Stecklein have been named 2015 CCM Hockey Division I Women's Ice Hockey All-Americans, the American Hockey Coaches Association announced at the 2015 NCAA Women's Frozen Four banquet this evening.
Brandt and Ramsey received First Team All-American honors for the second-straight season, while Cameranesi and Stecklein were named Second Team All-Americans. Including the four 2015 honorees, Gopher women's hockey has now received 34 All-American honors in program history.
Minnesota's four All-American honorees is the most for the program in a single season since the 2004-05 season when Natalie Darwitz, Lyndsay Wall and Krissy Wendell each earned first-team honors and Jody Horak received second-team honors.
Brandt, a top-three finalist for the 2015 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award and the 2015 WCHA Player of the Year, ranks third in the nation with 70 points (32 goals, 38 assists) and 1.84 points per game in 38 games. The junior from Vadnais Heights, Minn., was the 2015 WCHA Scoring Champion with 50 points in 27 league games.
Ramsey joins Brandt as a two-time First Team All-American honoree. The two-time WCHA Defensive Player of the Year, Ramsey was a top-10 finalist for this year's Patty Kazmaier award. A senior from Chanhassen, Minn., Ramsey ranks second in the nation among defensemen with 33 points (nine goals, 24 assists).
Meanwhile, Cameranesi, the 2014 National Rookie of the Year, earned her first All-American accolade as a sophomore this season. The Plymouth, Minn., native was a top-10 Patty Kazmaier award finalist and an All-WCHA First Team honoree after finishing second in the league behind Brandt with 43 points (17 goals, 26 assists) in 27 WCHA games. Cameranesi ranks fourth in the nation with 63 points and enters the Frozen Four just one point shy of her 100th career point as a Gopher.
Stecklein, a 2014 U.S. Olympian, joined Cameranesi in receiving Second Team All-American honors. The first sophomore to serve as a Gopher assistant captain since the 2005-06 season, Stecklein was named to the All-WCHA First Team and enters the Frozen Four ranked 14th among NCAA defensemen with 0.68 points per game.
Among the 2015 CCM All-Americans are five seniors, four juniors and three sophomores. Six selections came from the WCHA, four from Hockey East and two from the ECAC. The CCM Hockey All-American Ice Hockey Teams are sponsored by CCM Hockey and chosen by members of the American Hockey Coaches Association.
2015 CCM Hockey Women's Division I All-Americans
First Team
Brittni Mowat, SO, Bemidji State
Emily Pfalzer, SR, Boston College
Rachel Ramsey, SR, University of Minnesota
Hannah Brandt, JR, University of Minnesota
Alex Carpenter, JR, Boston College
Marie-Philip Poulin, SR, Boston University
Second Team
Shelby Amsley-Benzie, JR, University of North Dakota
Sarah Edney, SR, Harvard University
Lee Stecklein, SO, University of Minnesota
Dani Cameranesi, SO, University of Minnesota
Kendall Coyne, JR, Northeastern University
Brianne Jenner, SR, Cornell University
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