Boston College Athletics
Stack Doubles Up On Player and Rookie of the Year
March 02, 2007 | Women's Hockey
March 2, 2007
Chestnut Hill, Mass.--Freshman Kelli Stack (Brooklyn Heights, Oh.) received both Player and Rookie of the Year honors from Women's Hockey East on Friday night, and also captured the scoring champion award for her league-best 34 points. Six Eagles received postseason accolades, more than any other Hockey East team, including five players who were named to the first-team, second-team or all-rookie squads
Boston College head coach Tom Mutch was voted the CCM Coach of the Year by the other coaches around the league. Mutch led the Eagles to a program-best 23-8-2 overall record and 15-6-0 league record.
Stack, who led the league with 13 goals and 21 assists, was a unanimous First Team All-Star and All-Rookie selection. Classmate Allie Thunstrom (Maplewood, Minn.) was runner-up in both the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year categories, and was also voted unanimously to the First Team All-Star and All-Rookie squads.
Natick, Massachusetts native Molly Schaus joined Stack and Thunstrom on the All-Rookie squad and was named a Second Team All-Star. Schaus finished the season with the league's best save percentage of .929.
Sophomore Becky Zavisza (Suffield, Conn.) and Maggie Taverna (Howell, N.J.) were also named to the Second-Team All-Star squad. Zavisza (15-14--29) and Taverna (1-10--1) were both All-Rookie selections last year.
Junior co-captain Deb Spillane, from Franklin, Massachusetts, received the Sportsmanship Award, snapping Providence's three-year grasp on the honor.
Boston College will face-off as the second-seed in the Women's Hockey East Tournament semifinals against third-seed Providence on Saturday, March 3 at the Whittemore Center on the campus of UNH. The puck drops at 3:00 p.m. -BC-
