Rougeau Named League’s Best-Defensive-Defenseman
ALBANY, N.Y. -- ECAC Hockey today announced Lauriane Rougeau
from Cornell University has been named the winner of the
league’s 2010-11 Women's Best Defensive Defenseman
Award.
A finalist for the honor last season as a rookie, Rougeau did not
experience a ‘sophomore slump’ during the 2010-11
season at Cornell. For the second year in a row she helped anchor a
Big Red defense that was solid all year. Rougeau was the top blue
liner on the nation’s top scoring defense (0.97 G/GM), which
only surrendered 20 goals in 22 league games.
Earning a reputation as hard working and well-conditioned she led
the nation in plus/minus among defenders (+43) and helped Cornell
successfully stop an incredible 73 of 77 penalty-kill situations
(94.8%) in conference play.
The two-time Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Nominee also
quarterbacks the nation’s top power-play unit, which boasts a
26.4% success rate.
Rougeau was a solid contributor at the other end of the ice as well
leading all of her counterparts in conference scoring, netting
seven goals and adding 21 assists in 20 games (1.40 PTS/GM).
The other finalists for the award were Josephine Pucci from Harvard
and Laura Martindale from Princeton.
