Big Green Skaters Earn All-League Recognition

Sarah Parsons (l) and Jenna Cunningham

HANOVER, NH - Senior co-captains Sarah Parsons (Dover, Mass.) and Jenna Cunningham (Medicine Hat, Alta.) garnered ECAC Hockey Second Team honors, while freshman Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Que.) was named a top rookie in the league.

Parsons was given league honors for the third time in her career. Each time she has earned a spot, it has been on three different postseason teams. She was named to the first team as freshman and third team in 2008, followed by a second team selection this season. She had her best season since her 50-point year back in 2006-07. Her 40 points on 20 goals and 20 assists led ECAC Hockey and her 20 scores were a new career-high in a Big Green uniform. Thirty-three of the 40 points came in conference play, which was also a league-high. Parsons finished the year on a six-game point streak and led the team with 13 multi-point games and had five in the last nine games of the year.

She concluded her career with 156 total points, which puts her eighth all-time. The 66 goals she scored in her career made the top-10, while her 90 helpers are tied with Carly Haggard ’03 for seventh all-time.

Cunningham earned ECAC Hockey Second Team honors for the third year in a row. Her first second team honor came in 2008 as she tallied 37 points in just 17 games after suffering a season-ending leg injury. This year she set a new career-high with 18 goals and reached 30 points in a season for the third straight year. She finished with 18 goals and 13 assists for 31 points. She reached the 100-point milestone at Yale on Nov. 21 with a pair of goals in a 6-2 win. Cunningham posted a career-high four goals in the 8-1 win over Union to snap a seven-game winless streak. This season she led the team with five game-winning goals. She concluded her career with 63 points and 62 assists for 125 points. She sits in 16th-place in overall points. Cunningham is one of 16 players in Dartmouth history to record 60 goals and 60 assists in a career.

Both Parsons and Cunningham were keys to success on the power play as well. The pair on the top line were tied for the team-lead with six goals on the man advantage. The six tallies were ranked fourth in the conference.

Dumais, who was a late addition to the class of 2013, was a tremendous rookie competitor for Dartmouth and made the ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team. She finished one point behind Laura Fortino of Cornell for the league-lead among freshmen as she recorded 25 points. Her 10 tallies were third in the conference and her 15 assists put her second. In just her third game she posted two goals against then No. 7 St. Lawrence in a 4-3 win and followed that with a seasons best four points at Brown on Nov. 20 with a goal and three assists. Dumais was alongside tough competition as three all-rookie selections also earned first team honors.