Trio Shines at 2000 USA HOCKEY Women's Festival
August 24, 2000 | Women's Hockey
Aug. 24, 2000
Lake Placid, New York - Three Boston College women's ice hockey players participated in the 2000 USA Hockey Festival, held last week in Lake Placid, New York.
Senior captain Jen Buckley (Greenwich, Conn.), senior transfer Kelly McManus (Dedham, Mass) and sophomore Genevieve Richardson (Monroe, Conn.) all competed in the week-long national-level identification, training and development camp.
Each player participated in five intra-camp games. Buckley, the Eagles leading scorer for two of the last three seasons, scored one goal, while her festival teammate McManus recorded one assist. Richardson, who also plays for Boston College's women's soccer team, played for a different team then her two Eagle teammates and did not register a point.
A total of seventy-two players trained under the direction of leading men's and women's collegiate ice hockey coaches in hopes of being considered for future national-level U.S. women's teams, including the 2000-01 U.S. Women's Select team, which will train in Lake Placid beginning Sept. 25 and will play a full schedule of national and international games. U.S. women's National and Olympic team head coach Ben Smith, a native of Gloucester, Mass., oversaw the festival.
Twelve members of the gold-medal winning 1998 U.S. Olympic team joined the nation's top high school and college players at the Festival. In addition, 17 members of the 2000 U.S. women's national team that earned the silver medal at the 2000 International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championship participated in the camp.
Buckley, McManus, Richardson and the rest of the Eagles, under the direction of second-year head coach Tom Babson, are tentatively set to open the 2000-2001 season at home Thursday, October 12, against Bemidji State at 7 p.m.
