May 10, 2008

Kessler Invited to Canada Camp

CALGARY, Alta. -- Hockey Canada's National Women's Team head coach/general manager Melody Davidson announced that Harvard's rising junior goaltender Christina Kessler (Oakville, Ontario) is among 51 of the country's top under-22 women's players chosen for a strength, conditioning and skating camp in Calgary May 28-31.

Kessler, an AHCA second-team All-America selection last season, was Harvard's first ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Year after posting a 30-2-0 record in net. She led the nation with a .952 save percentage (679 of 713) and set the NCAA Division I single-season shutout record by blanking 12 teams. Kessler was also second in the country with a 1.06 goals-against average.

The players will be put through fitness testing, and skating drills over the course of the four-day camp.

Hockey Canada will also use the camp as an opportunity to get to know the players and give them off-ice training techniques, as well as nutritional guidance. Using the 2007-08 on-ice evaluation, performance at this camp and, for the goaltenders, performance at the June goalie camp, Hockey Canada officials will make their selections for an August camp which will aid them in selecting the National Women's Under-22 Team for the 2008-09 season.