INSIDE WOMEN'S HOCKEY
BY ROSS LA DUE
Looking back at the
2012-13 season
Decker and Rigsby set more UW records
W
hile the UW women's
hockey team's season
may have been two weeks
shorter after not receiving
an at-large bid to the NCAA
tournament, the Badgers
still have much to take away
from this season.
The 2012-13 season will
be remembered for the first
played in LaBahn Arena. Af52 » VARSITY
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ter a shaky opening weekend, the Badgers went on to
post a 14-3-1 record in their
new home, an .806 winning
percentage.
Brianna Decker capped off
her four-year career becoming the second-leading career points (244) and goals
(115) scorer at Wisconsin.
With 129 career assists, she
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was one shy of tying Meghan Duggan for second-most at UW. Decker's
success didn't go unnoticed, either,
as she was named a 2013 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award top-10 finalist and All-WCHA first team.
Goaltender Alex Rigsby had a
strong junior year, nearly replicating her marks from last season while
playing the highest percentage of
time in net for any goaltender in the
nation. In just three seasons, Rigsby
became the all-time saves leader at
Wisconsin, besting the 2,527 saves
made by Jackie MacMillan in the
first four years of the program.
Her .943 save percentage (third in
the nation) and 1.49 goals against average (sixth in the nation) earned her
All-WCHA Second Team honors.
Defenseman Courtney Burke also
had a standout first year for the
Badgers, earning All-WCHA Rookie
Team honors, while leading the Wisconsin D-corps with four goals and
19 assists.
Two future Badgers earn top
honors in prep league
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Incoming freshmen and teammates at the North American
Hockey Academy, Annie Pankowski and Jenny Ryan were named the
Junior Women's Hockey League's
2013 Player of the Year and Most
Outstanding Defenseman, respectively. Pankowski was the leading
goal scorer in the JWHL, nabbing 54 goals in just 27 conference
games. In the season as a whole,
Pankowski scored a total of 104
goals through 78 games.
