Clarkson Golden Knights women's ice hockey
| Clarkson Golden Knights women's ice hockey | |
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 Current season
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| University | Clarkson University |
| Conference | ECAC |
| Head coach |
Matt Desrosiers 9th year, 220–88–39 |
| Captain(s) | Savannah Harmon Cayley Mercer |
| Alternate captain(s) | Genevieve Bannon Lauren Lefler |
| Arena |
Cheel Arena Capacity: 3,000 Surface: 200' x 85' |
| Location | Potsdam, New York |
| Colors | Green and Gold |
| NCAA Tournament Champions | |
| 2014, 2017 | |
| NCAA Tournament Frozen Four | |
| 2014, 2016, 2017 | |
| NCAA Tournament Appearances | |
| 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 | |
| Conference Tournament Champions | |
| 2017 | |
| Conference Regular Season Champions | |
| 2014, 2015, 2017 | |
The Clarkson Golden Knights women's hockey team is an NCAA Division I ice hockey team that represents Clarkson University in rural Potsdam, New York. The Golden Knights have been a member of ECAC Hockey since 2004, and play home games in Cheel Arena on the Clarkson University campus.
While men's ice hockey has existed for a long time at Clarkson University as a NCAA Division I sport, women's ice hockey had only existed at Clarkson as a varsity sport from 1974–1984, long before the women's game was at all formalized. During the varsity era, the team posted a record of 77–72–3. A club team started in the 1995–96 season and existed until the sport regained varsity status. As neither the university nor the NCAA consider the original varsity team or the club team continuous with the current one all statistics and records do not carry over from either era. In 2003, Clarkson announced that it would, for the first time, field a Division I women's ice hockey team. Under head coach Rick Seeley, the team began play in the 2003–04 season. Playing as an independent, the team was able to post a respectable 16–12–3 despite being composed almost entirely of freshmen. For the 2004–05 season, Clarkson entered the ECAC (at the time known as the ECACHL), where it has played ever since. Despite struggling somewhat in its first year in the league, Clarkson was able to finish in 8th place in the conference and claim the final spot in the conference tournament, where it would be eliminated in the quarterfinals in two games by top-seeded and eventual conference champion Harvard.
Clarkson's true success as a team began in the 2005–06 season. Compiling an overall record of 22–14–1 and a conference record of 12–8–0, Clarkson was able to finish in a tie for 3rd place (5th on tie-breaks) in the ECAC. Highlighting the season was a weekend sweep of conference powerhouses Harvard and Dartmouth and a home victory over then top-ranked St. Lawrence. Only a last-second overtime loss to Harvard in the final game of the regular season prevented Clarkson from clinching both outright 3rd place and home ice for the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament. Forced to travel for the second season in a row to Harvard for the quarterfinals, the Golden Knights dropped the first game before winning the second game in overtime, only to see their season come to an end with a double overtime loss in game 3.
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