When Team USA heads to Zug, Switzerland, in mid-January for the IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship, it could be full of New Englanders. In all, 11 locals will be at selection camp later this month hoping to make the trip to Switzerland in pursuit of a gold medal. They will gather Oct. 29-31 in Blaine,...
When Team USA heads to Zug, Switzerland, in mid-January for the IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship, it could be full of New Englanders.
In all, 11 locals will be at selection camp later this month hoping to make the trip to Switzerland in pursuit of a gold medal. They will gather Oct. 29-31 in Blaine, Minn., for the selection camp.
Along with the 11 New Englanders, head coach Liz Keady Norton is from Braintree, Mass., and is currently the head coach at Dartmouth.
Of the 11, two are from Vermont: defenders Megan Healy (South Burlington, Vt.) and Taylor Senecal (Essex Junction, Vt.). Healy, an '07, plays for Bishop Kearney Selects while Senecal, also an '07, skates for North American Hockey Academy.
The rest are from Massachusetts.
Up front, Caroline Averill (Wayland, Mass.), Kassidy Carmichael (Westford, Mass.), Alanna Devlin (Marshfield, Mass.), Morgan McGathey (Braintree, Mass.), Quinn Taylor (Centerville, Mass.) and Hannah Weyerhaeuser (Cambridge, Mass.) will be key pieces.
Averill, McGathey and Weyerhaeuser play for the East Coast Wizards, while Carmichael, Devlin and Taylor play for NAHA.
There will be plenty of locals on the back end, too.
Margaret Averill (Wayland, Mass.), Molly Boyle (Scituate, Mass.) and Madelyn Murphy (Dorchester, Mass.) all hail from Massachusetts.
Averill and Boyle both play for the Wizards. Murphy skates for Assabet Valley.
Editor's note: This story has been updated. An earlier version incorrectly stated that 11 New Englanders had made the final roster for the Women's World Championship.
