Feature: Duo Takes Act Overseas
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The following article appeared May 9 on the Quinnipiac Web site.
By Matt Caracappa
As the end of the academic year approaches, many soon-to-be
college graduates frantically try to figure out the next stage of
their life. For most, the corporate world is knocking with suits,
ties and nine-to-five work days. But for the women’s hockey
team’s Trudy Reyns and Elyse Cole, the pair will get to strap
on their skates for at least one more season.
Both Reyns and Cole will head to Austria next season to play in
the Elite Women’s Hockey League (EWHL). The first-ever
Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey players to play professionally,
they will join the Salzburg Ravens for the 2009-10 season. The EWHL
is an eight-team league with teams playing 20 games in an
eight-month season. It is one of the top women’s professional
leagues in Europe and the pair joins a team that won the league
championship following the 2006 season and finished second in the
division last year.
Reyns and Cole leave Quinnipiac as two of the program’s most
successful players. A fixture on the blue line the past four
seasons for the Bobcats, Reyns finished second on the team this
year in points and first in shots on goal. The captain appeared in
every game for the Bobcats during her four-year career. She was
also the first women’s ice hockey player to score a goal at
the TD Banknorth Sports Center.
Complete article can be accessed via the Quinnipiac Web site by clicking here.
