March 10, 2010

Cornell Hopes to Fly Past Surprise Opponent

The following article appeared in the March 10 issue of the Ithaca Journal.

 

By Dan Sweeney

About an hour after the Cornell women's hockey team celebrated its first ECAC Hockey championship on Sunday, the Big Red huddled in its video room to learn its NCAA Tournament destination. 

 Team technology wizard Melanie Jue fired up the NCAA's live Webcast onto a large flat-screen TV. Before the NCAA's Chris Fitzpatrick revealed the brackets, common belief in the program was that the Big Red would be flying to play at Minnesota or Minnesota Duluth. 

"Anybody not like flying?" coach Doug Derraugh asked right before the announcement.

Complete article can be accessed via the Journal Web site by clicking here.