League Presence Strong at USA Hockey Holiday Camp
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A total of 10
current and former league standouts are among 56 of the best female
hockey players in the United States who
will participate at the annual USA Hockey Holiday Camp,
set for December 26 - January 1 at the Olympic Center in Lake
Placid, N.Y. The training camp serves as a tryout and training
session for the U.S. Women's National Team and U.S. Women's
National Under-18 Team, both of which participate in world
championships in the early part of 2008.
Current league standouts invited to the camp include defensemen
Caitlin Cahow of Harvard, Katherine Dineen and Sasha Sherry of
Princeton, and Yale's Helen Resor; and forwards Crysti Howser of
Yale, Lizzie Keady of Princeton, and Sarah Parsons of Dartmouth.
Former league standouts participating at the camp include goaltender Megan Van Beusekom (Princeton), forward Julie Chu (Harvard) and defenseman Angela Ruggiero (Harvard).
Click here for complete roster as a PDF
The players will be split into three teams for daily practices
and scrimmages. One squad, Team White, will include the 22 players
vying for one of 20 spots on the 2008 U.S. Women's National
Under-18 Team for the first-ever International Ice Hockey
Federation World Women's Under-18 Championship, to be held from
Jan. 7-12 in Calgary, Alta.
The other two teams, Red and Blue, will include a total of 34
players who will be looking to earn their way onto the U.S.
contingent for the 2008 IIHF World Women's Championship, which runs
from April 4-12 in Harbin, China.
