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Yahoo
27-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Recruiting Class: Boston College Bringing Firepower
Boston College is adding talent to their roster this offseason including a duo of forwards that could take the school's offensive attack to new levels. This offseason, Boston College leader Abby Newhook was selected in the PWHL Draft by the Boston Fleet. The school also lost Molly Jordan via the transfer portal to the University of Minnesota. The Boston College Eagles however, remain a program on an upward trajectory, and adding their recruiting class to their current top line talents including Sammy Taber and Julia Pellerin will only accelerate that process. Here's a look at Boston College's 2025-26 women's hockey recruiting class. Maxim Tremblay, F, Stanstead College A prolific scorer for Stanstead College, Tremblay is 5-foot-10 and has a rifle for a shot. She scored 64 goals and 114 points in 70 games last season. She's the type of talent who could shift Boston College's future. Uses her size well, but it's her shoot first mentality that makes her the biggest threat. Ava Thomas, F, Philadelphia Jr. Flyers Won gold at the U-18 World Championships with USA scoring nine points in six games. As a member of Philadelphia's 19-U 'AAA' team she's been one of the top scorers in the nation the past three seasons. Last year she had 38 goals and 60 points in only 21 games. Alonside Tremblay, this is a tandem that could grow into one of the NCAA's top offensive duos. Alaina Dunn, D, Massachusetts Spitfires A mobile defender who represented USA at the 2025 U-18 World Championships, Dunn will be a good replacement for Molly Jordan on Boston College's blueline this season. Other incoming recruits: Madelyn Murphy, Emily Mara, Maude Niemann
Boston Globe
04-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Three Boston women's teams set for Hockey East semifinals, with defending champ UConn the lone outsider
Both semifinals begin at 6 p.m., with the winner's advancing to Saturday's championship game (noon), to be held at Toscano Family Ice Forum in Storrs. It will be the first meeting of the Terriers and Eagles in the semifinals since 2019, when BC handed BU a 5-1 loss before losing the championship game to Northeastern. The Eagles (tied with UConn for 12th Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up That semifinal experience is showing in the grit of BC's sophomore class. Three of the team's top four scorers are sophomores, led by Tewksbury's Sammy Taber. Taber has 11 goals and 25 assists to follow up on her 31-point Rookie of the Year season in 2023-24, including a helper in the Eagles' 4-3 win over Maine in Saturday's quarterfinals. Advertisement Sophomore Sammy Taber leads the Eagles in scoring this season. Courtesy/Boston College Athletics Classmate Julia Pellerin has stood out as BC's top sniper. The Windham, N.H. native leads the Eagles in goals with 20 (which was the game-winner against Maine), and in shots with 172, 68 more than her next teammate. Another sophomore, defender Molly Jordan, has shown herself to be a top-notch two-way player, with 23 points on the season. Besides the emergence of a strong sophomore class, the Eagles are surging as a more cohesive unit than their last two years. 'It's a pretty tight-knit group,' said coach Katie Crowley earlier in the season. 'I think what we found is they really play for each other and that's awesome to see. That helps in the closer games.' Advertisement Improved teamwork has also been a boost for the Terriers, who have been the surprise of Hockey East so far. Picked sixth in the coaches' preseason poll, BU went into the final weekend in the running for the regular-season title, before dropping a series to UConn. But second-year coach Tara Watchorn and her charges bounced right back by besting Vermont, 4-3 in overtime, in Saturday's quarterfinal. 'There was so much room for upgrades,' said Watchorn after the win. 'Our foundation was back and strong in a lot of ways and reinvigorated. We felt good coming out of last weekend, with a little bit more of a fire, which never hurts.' Coach Tara Watchorn had the Terriers vying for the Hockey East regular season title right up to the final weekend. Now, BU is looking for Hockey East tournament glory. Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff Six Terriers have over 15 points this season, an improvement over the last few years when scoring was a struggle. Leading the way is junior Sydney Healey, who is having the best season of her career with 14 goals and 8 assists. Regardless of position, BU's players aren't shying away from scoring opportunities. Hockey East Defender of the Year Tamara Giaquinto (8-9–17) has been playing much like her coach did during her own BU career, a physical presence on the blue line who doesn't fear getting in front of a shot. The Terriers took the regular season series against the Eagles, 2-1, but Wednesday's semifinal is an even matchup. The early 2010s days of BC and BU vying for league titles and being a part of the national conversation have returned, and both teams welcome it. 'It just makes it more fun,' said Crowley. It's deja vu for Northeastern (tied for 14th in PairWise), who has played UConn in the postseason five times in the last six seasons. The Huskies have been inconsistent, but still find a way to play up in important games, such as their Advertisement Northeastern captain Taze Thompson hopes to add another Hockey East championship trophy to their already packed case this week, after skating away with the Beanpot back in January. Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff When Northeastern's forwards are on, like Andover's Lily Shannon (14-8–22) and Kingston's Skylar Irving (15-16–31), they are hard to stop. But UConn goalie Tia Chan is Hockey East's best, and fourth in the nation with a .944 save percentage. Chan was the reason Kat Cornetta can be reached at
