2022-23 Women's Hockey Roster
Roster
Hannah Bilka
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-5
- S/C:
- L
- Hometown:
- Coppell, Texas
- Previous Team:
- Shattuck-St. Mary’s
- High School:
- Shattuck-St. Mary's
AS A SENIOR (2022-23)
Team captain ... Hockey East Second Team All-Star … Hockey East Player of the Month (September/October) … four-time Hockey East Player of the Week (Sept. 26, Oct. 10, Oct. 24, Feb. 20) … played in 34 of 36 contests … led BC in scoring with a career-high 41 points from 12 goals and a career-best 29 assists … ranked seventh in Hockey East with 41 total points and was fifth with a 1.21 points per game average … scored three game-winning goals and assisted on eight others for 11 game-winning points … recorded 13 multi-point games, seven multi-assist games and one multi-goal game … became the 22nd player in program history to reach 100 career points and registered her third career four-point game with a two-goal, two-assist outing at Boston University (Oct. 22) … was the ninth-fastest player in program history to reach 100 career points, doing it in her 95th career game ... recorded her fourth career four-point game with a career-high four assists at Providence (Feb. 17) … tied for fourth overall in conference scoring with 32 points on eight goals and 24 assists … her 24 assists in conference games tied for second most in the league … fired off a team-leading 133 shots on goal … her 3.91 shots per game average ranked third in Hockey East … had a career-best plus-21 rating … blocked nine shots … became the first BC player to reach the 40-point mark since the 2018-19 season and her 29 assists marked the most for a BC player since 2017-18 ... participated in the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival in August ... selected for the U.S. roster for the 2022 IIHF World Championships ... won a silver medal with the U.S. at the World Championships and finished the tournament third overall in scoring with 12 points across seven games, registering five goals and seven assists ... Bilka served as the statistician for the Boston College-UMass men's hockey game at Fenway Park on Jan. 7, 2023.
AS A JUNIOR (2021-22)
Hockey East First Team All-Star … All-New England Division I team … two-time Hockey East Player of the Week … second on the team in points (33), goals (16) and assists (17) while also registering four game-winning goals, two short-handed goals and one power-play tally … her 16 goals marked a career-high … finished tied for fourth overall in conference scoring this season with 30 points (15-15-30) … led the team with a career-best plus-18 rating … also had career-highs in game-winning goals (4), shots on goal (146) and tied a best in short-handed goals (2) … registered 10 multi-point games, four multi-goal games and two multi-assist games … recorded her second career four-point game and hat trick with a three-goal, one-assist outing against Merrimack (Feb. 11) … her 146 shots on goal ranked fourth in Hockey East and 24th in the country … led Hockey East players in shots on goal in conference play with 117 … fired a season-high eight shots on goal in three games … also finished tied for third in conference play with three game-winning goals, second with two short-handed goals and tied for eighth with a plus-18 rating … registered at least one shot on goal in every contest and had multiple shots on goal in 32 of them (and 29 consecutive to end the season) … the Eagles went 15-2-1 when she had a point, 9-2-1 when she scored a goal and 14-1-0 when she had an assist … in addition to her four game-winning goals, she added five game-winning assists … with an assist against UConn (Jan. 28), she became the 34th player in program history to reach 75 career points ... off the ice, continued to serve as a statistician for the Boston College athletic communications office and inputted Charlotte North's NCAA record-breaking 342nd career goal.
AS A SOPHOMORE (2020-21)
Hockey East Third Team All-Star … played in 19 of BC’s 20 games … finished third on the team in scoring with 16 points on seven goals and nine assists … scored one game-winning goal … had two short-handed goals, tied for second in the nation … recorded one power-play goal and one power-play assist … had two multi-point games on the year … recorded at least one point in 14 out of 19 games played … had a seven-game point streak (Jan. 15-Feb. 20), recording eight points on four goals and four assists … had single goals in six contests … had single assists in six contests … had two assists against Merrimack (Jan. 8) … scored the game-winning goal and added an assist at Holy Cross (Jan. 16) … led the team with 77 shots on goal, firing at least one shot on goal in all 19 games and recording multiple shots on goal in 17 games … had a career-high 11 shots on goal in the home opener against New Hampshire (Nov. 21) … blocked seven shots … whistled for three penalties on the year … had a plus-14 rating, fourth on the team … the team went 7-0-0 when she scored a goal and 10-4-0 when she had at least one point … invited to the U.S. Women’s National Team Evaluation Camp in October and March ... participated in the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival in August ... off the ice, Bilka is a statistician for the Boston College athletic communications office.
AS A FRESHMAN (2019-20)
The WHCA National Rookie of the Year … the Hockey East Rookie of the Year and a unanimous selection to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team … Hockey East Second Team All-Star … a USCHO All-Rookie Team honoree … All-New England Division I team …named Hockey East Rookie of the Month for October and was the runner-up in January … named the National Rookie of the Month for October … named Hockey East Player of the Week once and Rookie of the Week once … played in 34 of BC’s 36 contests, collecting a team-leading 37 points on 14 goals and 23 assists … led all rookies in the country in total points per game (1.13), assists per game (0.71) and shots on goal per game (4.06) during the regular season and tied for first in shots on goal (126) … her 30 points in Hockey East play marked the ninth-highest total by a first-year player in league history … tied for the team lead in assists (23) … held off the scoresheet in the season-opener but then ripped off a nine-game point streak (10-8-18), tied for the longest on the team in 2019-20 … had 10 multi-point games, three multi-goal games and five multi-assist games … her 10 total multi-point games sat second in the nation among rookies while her four three-plus point outings tied for first overall among rookies … nine of her multi-point outings came in conference play to tie for third overall in the league and sit tops among first-year players … scored four goals for the program’s 10th-ever such game at Holy Cross (Oct. 3), doing it with two even-strength goals and the first short-handed and power-play goals of her career … recorded a season-high three assists against New Hampshire (Nov. 1) and Holy Cross (Jan. 31) … had two goals each against Maine (Oct. 20) and Maine (Oct. 26) … potted one goal and two assists against Vermont (Jan. 17) … had one goal and one assist against Syracuse (Oct. 5), and Boston University (Nov. 15) … picked up a pair of helpers against Merrimack (Sept. 28) and Providence (Jan. 25) … factored in to six game-winning goals, scoring three and assisting on three … had single goals in three contests and single assists in nine contests … finished second on the team with 131 shots on goal … had 19 blocked shots … had a plus-7 rating … had eight power-play points … BC went 8-0-1 this season when she scored a goal and 14-4-3 when she had at least one point ... missed two games due to injury … participated in the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival in August and was a member of the U.S. Under-22 Team that faced Canada in a three-game series in August ... invited to the USA Hockey Winter Training Camp in December.
BEFORE BC
A member of the gold medal-winning 2018 U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team at the IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship in Dmitrov, Russia ... scored a goal and added two assists in five games ... part of the silver-medal winning U.S. Under-18 team at the 2019 IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship … competed in the 2017 and 2018 Under-18 Series vs. Canada ... participated in USA Hockey's 2017 and 2018 Women's National Festivals, and attended the 2017 and 2018 Girls Select U-18 Player Development Camps ... played her prep hockey at Shattuck-St. Mary's in Faribault, Minn. … helped the Sabres to the 2017-18 Tier 1 U-19 national championship, as well as to a runners-up finish in 2018-19 … notched 65 points on 26 goals and 39 assists in 46 games in the 2018-19 season … was also member of the lacrosse and ultimate frisbee team at Shattuck-St. Mary's.
PERSONAL
Daughter of Dan and Patricia Bilka… has three siblings in Christina, Stephanie and Anthony … named to the National Honors Society ... communications major in the Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences ... recipient of
The Hennessy Family Scholarship Fund and The Lombardi Family Scholarship Fund in Memory of Joseph J. Lombardi.
