New England will again be well-represented when Team USA heads to Vantaa, Finland, for the IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship later this week.
Ten New England natives are included on USA Hockey's final 25-player roster.
Of the 10 skaters, nine hail from Massachusetts, while one is from Vermont. Three of the 10 were on last year's roster that took home a gold medal in Switzerland — Caroline Averill (Wayland, Mass.), Maggie Averill (Wayland, Mass.) and Megan Healy (South Burlington, Vt.).
Additionally, Liz Keady Norton (Braintree, Mass.) returns as head coach. She is currently the interim head coach at Milton Academy, her alma mater, and Mass. Hockey's girls player development director. She was previously the head coach at Dartmouth College.
Joining her staff as an assistant is Boston College associate head coach Courtney Kennedy (Woburn, Mass.). Long Island assistant Shelley Picard (Taunton, Mass.) will be an intern coach as well.
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The tournament will run from Jan. 4-12, 2025.
Here are the selections from New England, listed alphabetically by last name:
Forwards
- Caroline Averill (Wayland, Mass.)
- Jane Daley (Medfield, Mass.)
- Evelyn Doyle (Needham, Mass.)
- Annabelle Lovell (Hingham, Mass.)
- Tina Scalese (West Boylston, Mass.)
Defense
- Maggie Averill (Wayland, Mass.)
- Emi Biotti (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Emma Cerruti (Norwell, Mass.)
- Alaina Dunn (Walpole, Mass.)
- Megan Healy (South Burlington, Vt.)
Three other skaters who play for New England programs also made the roster:
- Ella Johnson (NAHA)
- Sydney Stoughton (Lovell Academy)
- Chyna Taylor (Lovell Academy)
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Caroline Averill, a 2007 committed to Princeton, is a junior forward at Phillips Andover, while Maggie is an '08 sophomore defender at Andover. Both play club for the Assabet Valley U19s, who took home the Mass. state championship this fall. Biotti, a Harvard commit who plays club for the U19 East Coast Wizards, is an '07 senior blue-liner at BB&N.
Doyle, an '07 junior forward committed to Yale, and Dunn, an '07 senior defender committed to BC, each play prep at Dexter Southfield. Doyle also plays for Assabet, and Dunn skates with the Mass. Spitfires during split-season.
Scalese is an '08 junior forward at Groton, committed to Princeton. She plays club for Assabet as well. Meanwhile, Lovell, a 2009, was part of the Lovell Academy U16s that won the Mass. state title this fall.
Cerruti, an '08 committed to Wisconsin, and Daley, a 2009, each skate for Shattuck-St. Mary's. Healy, an '07, plays for Bishop Kearney.
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Of the above, all skated at USA Hockey's Under-18 Select Camp in Lake Placid in August. All but Caroline Averill, Scalese and Johnson competed with Team USA in the Under-18 Series against Canada in August.
