INSIDE
WOMEN'S HOCKEY
BY AJ HARRISON
@BADGERWHOCKEY
SCHEDULE
LAST WEEK
Sept. 23
Team Japan
COMING UP
Oct. 4
Minnesota State
Oct. 5
Minnesota State
Oct. 11
#1 Minnesota
Oct. 12
#1 Minnesota
Bring on the Mavs: Badgers
ready for season to start
UW entertains Minnesota State this weekend
here is a lot of excitement in the air at LaBahn
Arena as Wisconsin prepares for the second season at
its new barn. The Badgers host
WCHA foe Minnesota State in
the first conference tilt of the
season this weekend.
"Every single player on our
team is excited to get the season started," junior and assistant captain Blayre Turnbull
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said. "We have all been working very hard after the dissapoting end to last season.
Our pracitces the past few
weeks have gone really well
and we are looking forward
to starting our season against
Minnesota State."
This marks the second
straight year the Badgers have
opened their season with the
Mavericks, as the teams drew
W, 3-0
7 p.m.
3 p.m.
6 p.m.
4 p.m.
to a 2-2 tie in Mankato last season. After
that tie, Wisconsin went on to win the final three contests against the Mavericks,
which included two shutouts at LaBahn
Arena.
Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson
will use this weekend to get a good feel
for his team this year.
"Early in the season, you're trying
to feel things out and see what kind of
chemistry certain lines have and combinations," Johnson said.
For the six freshmen ― Mellissa Channell, Jenny Ryan, Sydney McKibbon,
Sarah Nurse, Mikayla Johnson and AnnRenne Desbiens ― this weekend will be
their first time on the ice donning the
Cardinal and White for a regular-season
contest.
"They have prepared well," Johnson
said about the freshmen. "The toughtest
adjustment is the everyday grind with
practicing every day. It's a new environment, a new school load, a new city, a lot
of things are thrown at them, but all of
them seem to be comfortable right now."
UW SHUTS DOWN JAPAN IN EXHIBITION
● In their only exhibition game of the season, the Badgers blanked the Japanese
Olympic Team, 3-0, as Katy Josephs,
Madison Packer and Brittany Ammerman all lit the lamp for UW. Alex Rigsby and Ann-Renee Desbiens combined
for 65 minutes of shutout hockey.
