Six Headed to USA Hockey Winter Training Camp

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Six current members of the Boston College women's hockey team have been selected for the USA Hockey women's national team winter training camp later this month.

Katie Burt, Alex Carpenter, Kali Flanagan, Megan Keller, Haley Skarupa and Dana Trivigno are part of the 37-woman camp roster, which was announced by head coach Ken Klee late Friday afternoon. | FULL ROSTER

This year's camp will be held Dec. 27, 2015 through Jan. 1, 2016 at Schwan's Super Rink in Blaine, Minn. The annual Women's Winter Training Camp is a training session that is also used to select the 23-player roster for the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's World Championship. This year's world championship will be played March 28 through April 4 in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Of the six current Eagles selected, four were members of the gold-medal winning team at the 2015 IIHF World Championships in Malmo, Sweden: Carpenter (alternate captain), Keller, Skarupa and Trivigno.

Carpenter has been a member of the national team since 2013 and also represented the U.S. at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Keller, Skarupa and Trivigno all debuted with the full national team in 2014 at the Four Nations Cup.

Flanagan is attending her second winter training camp, while Burt is making her camp debut with the senior national team. She is a former two-time medalist (silver in 2014, gold in 2015) with the Under-18 team at the IIHF World Under-18 Championships. Neither has made an appearance with the full national team.

In addition to the six current Eagles called into camp, three alumnae were also selected: Emily Pfalzer '15, Kelli Stack '11 and Allie Thunstrom '10. All three players were most recently members of the U.S.' entry at the 2015 Four Nations Cup, which defeated Canada for the title.

Of the 18 current college players named to the training camp roster, Boston College's six representatives tops all schools. Minnesota has three current players called in and North Dakota two. Seven schools will have one representative: Bemidji State, Harvard, Lindenwood, Mercyhurst, Northeastern, Quinnipiac and Wisconsin.

Boston College (20-0-0, 13-0-0 Hockey East) ended the first half of the season ranked No. 2 in the nation. The Eagles will return to the ice on Saturday, Jan. 9, when the team faces Boston University at the Terriers' Walter Brown Arena at 3 p.m.

Players Mentioned

Katie Burt

Alex Carpenter

Kali Flanagan

Megan Keller

Emily Pfalzer

Haley Skarupa

Dana Trivigno

Six Headed to USA Hockey Winter Training Camp

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