INSIDE
WOMEN'S HOCKEY
BY AJ HARRISON
@BADGERWHOCKEY
SCHEDULE
COMING UP
Sept. 23 Team Japan
Free Admission
Oct. 4
Minnesota State
Oct. 5
Minnesota State
Oct. 11
Minnesota
Oct. 12
Minnesota
7 p.m.
7 p.m.
3 p.m.
6 p.m.
4 p.m.
MACLEOD RETURNS TO MADISON
● Former Badger Carla MacLeod serves
as an assistant coach for the Japanese
national team, which will compete in
the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi,
Russia.
MacLeod was a two-time team captain and was a two-time All-American
while at Wisconsin. In 2005, she was
selected as the USCHO National Defensive Player of the Year. She went on
to help Canada win gold at the 2006
and 2010 Winter Olympics.
A September start: UW
hosts Japan in exhibition
Badgers open season on Monday at LaBahn
ven though feelings ofsummer have yet to fade,
hockey season is right
around the corner. Wisconsin
hosts Team Japan at LaBahn
Arena on Monday in a 7 p.m.
exhibition contest.
It might sound early for a
hockey game, but Monday's
game ties the earliest start for
the Badgers, as UW opened up
its 2011 campaign on Sept. 23
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VARSITY September 19, 2013
with an 11-0 win over Lindenwood. Wisconsin has opened
its season in September in six
of the past eight seasons.
The contest marks the first
time the Badgers have faced
a national team since 2010,
when UW played the U.S. National Team with Wisconsin
head coach Mark Johnson
serving as the mentor for Team
USA on its way to the Olympics.
OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAINS
● The Badgers have elected senior Alex
Rigsby as their team captain, while seniors Madison Packer, Kelly Jaminski
and junior Blayre Turnbull will serve
as assistant captains.
Rigsby, an assistant captain for UW
last year, becomes the first goaltender to serve as the team captain in the
program's 14-year history.
UW RANKED NO. 7 IN PRESEASON POLL
● Wisconsin checked in at No. 7 in the
USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
preseason poll this week.
Fellow WCHA member and defending national champ Minnesota earned
the No. 1 ranking, while North Dakota
was tabbed No. 5.
UW will also face No. 4 Boston University and No. 10 Northeastern in
Vail, Colo. during the weekend of Nov.
15-16.