2021-22 Women's Hockey Roster
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Jersey Number 18
Kelly Browne
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-6
- S/C:
- L
- Hometown:
- Burlington, Mass.
- Previous Team:
- Boston Jr. Eagles
- High School:
- Tabor Academy
Bio
Three-time captain, the first in the history of Boston College hockey, men or women … graduated as the program leader in games played (165) … closed her career ranked in the top 15 on the Eagles’ career list in multiple offensive categories: eighth in assists (87), tied for 13th in points (134), 12th in shots on goal (483).
AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2022-23)
Team captain ... first three-year captain in Boston College hockey history, men's or women's ... played in all 36 contests, recording 17 points on six goals and 11 assists … had three multi-point games on the year, scoring twice against Maine (Jan. 5), putting up two assists against Holy Cross (Dec. 3) and potting one goal and one assist against Maine (Jan. 6) … scored one game-winning goal … ranked second in Hockey East and 15th in the country with 385 face-off wins … matched her career-high with 21 face-off wins at Holy Cross (Dec. 2) … recorded at least 10 wins in 21 games and at least 15 wins in six games … finished third on the team with 103 shots on goal … had at least one shot on goal in 35 of 36 contests … second among BC forwards with 20 blocked shots … BC went 11-3-0 when she had a point and the program was 65-21-3 all-time in her career when she had at least one point ... participated in the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival in August ... selected for the U.S. Collegiate Select Team and played in a three-game series against Canada.
AS A SENIOR (2021-22)
Team captain … just the eighth two-year captain in program history … Hockey East Honorable Mention Team … led BC in scoring with 34 points off of 10 goals and a team-high and career-high 24 assists … her 24 assists ranked fourth in Hockey East while her 34 points tie for seventh … had 389 face-off wins to lead the team, rank second in Hockey East and tie for 14th in the nation … had a career-high four game-winning goals, tied for fourth in Hockey East and second on the team … tied a career-high with three power-play goals … fired 106 shots on goal and had at least one shot on goal in 32 of 34 contests … first among BC forwards and sixth on the team with a career-high 27 blocked shots … had at least 10 face-off wins in 25 games and at least 15 wins in seven contests … recorded 10 multi-point games on the year, one multi-goal game and six multi-assist games … had three, three-assist games … with three assists against Holy Cross (Jan. 21), she became the 17th player in program history to eclipse 100 career points … BC went 15-5-0 when she had at least one point … whistled for just one penalty on the year.
AS A JUNIOR (2020-21)
Team captain … one of just 10 junior captains in program history … Hockey East First Team All-Star … played in all 20 games … Hockey East Player of the Week (Dec. 7) … tied for the team lead in scoring with 21 points off of seven goals and 14 assists … her 14 assists led the team, ranked fourth in Hockey East and tied for 10th in the nation … recorded 11 primary assists, tied for second most in Hockey East and fifth in the country … registered six multi-point games, good for a tie for fourth in Hockey East and first on the team, and had one multi-goal game and three multi-assist games … led the team and finished seventh in the nation with 250 face-off wins … had a .598 winning percentage at the dot, third-best in the nation among players taking at least 400 draws … had at least 10 face-off wins in 16 games and had 15 or more wins in six games … had a season-high 19 wins against Merrimack (Jan. 18) … scored one game-winning goal and assists on three others for four game-winning points … recorded one short-handed goal … had at least one point in 14 of 20 games played … opened the season with a career-high six-game point streak, recording four goals and six points over that span … earned her third career multi-goal game with two goals at UConn (Dec. 4), including a short-handed tally … had a season-high three point game on one goal and two assists at Holy Cross (Jan. 16) and became the 33rd player in program history to reach 75 career points … recorded a pair of one goal, one assist games … had single goals in two games and single assists in six games … recorded 66 shots on goal, firing at least one shot on goal in 19 of 20 games and multiple shots on goal in 18 of 20 contests … blocked 14 shots, tied for second among BC forwards … whistled for three penalties on the year … with 17 face-off wins against Providence (Feb. 12), she became the first BC player since 2014-15 to reach 1,000 career face-off wins as a junior … invited to the U.S. Women’s National Team Evaluation Camp in October and March ... invited to the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival in August.
AS A SOPHOMORE (2019-20)
Hockey East Third Team All-Star … played in all 36 games … Hockey East Player of the Week (Nov. 4) … NCAA Hockey Second Star of the Week (Nov. 5) … earned a career-high 36 points off of 13 goals and 23 assists … led the team and finished fourth in the nation with 451 face-off wins, the most wins at BC since the 2015-16 season …had three, four-point outings on the year with all coming in conference play to tie for the league lead … recorded nine multi-point games on the year and six multi-assist games … had 11 points on the power play off of two goals and nine assists to sit first on the team and tied for 10th in Hockey East … recorded a career-high four assists in a win at Holy Cross (Oct. 3) … recorded the program’s 11th four-goal game in a win over New Hampshire (Nov. 1) … picked up one goal and three assists in a win over Vermont (Jan. 17) … had one goal and one assist against Holy Cross (Jan. 31) … picked up two assists on four occasions, doing it against Syracuse (Oct. 5), Vermont (Oct. 20), No. 2 Wisconsin (Nov. 30), and No. 10 Harvard (Feb. 11) … picked up single goals against No. 1 Minnesota (Nov. 29), Boston University (Dec. 7), Providence (Jan. 25), Maine (Feb. 15) and New Hampshire (Nov. 22) … her goal against No. 1 Minnesota marked the first short-handed goal of her career … had a career-long five-game point streak (Oct. 20 to Nov. 2) and a four-game point streak (Nov. 22 to Nov. 30) … invited to USA Hockey Winter Training Camp in December … registered a career-high 21 face-off wins at the dot against Maine (Oct. 23) … recorded at least 15 wins in nine contests … had a hand in six game-winning goals, scoring one and assisting on five others … fired 110 shots on goal, third on the team … fired a season-high eight shots on goal at UConn (Nov. 23) … had 34 blocked shots, sixth on the team and second among forwards and also 10th among Hockey East forwards …made her senior U.S. Women’s National Team debut at the Rivalry Series in December.
AS A FRESHMAN (2018-19)
A selection to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team … a two-time Hockey East Rookie of the Week selection (Jan. 14 and March 4) … led BC’s rookies and tied for fifth on the team with 26 points off of 11 goals and 15 assists … ranked tied for 10th in the country among all rookies in scoring ... recorded 10 points (3g, 7a) on the power play, good for a tie for third on the team and sixth in the country among all first-year players … recorded 361 face-off wins, the first Hockey East rookie in two seasons to eclipse 360 wins … had at least 10 face-off wins in 16 games and had a season-high 14 face-off wins in five games … finished the year a plus-7 and had 21 blocked shots … whistled for just three penalties all season ... had five multi-point outings on the year and one multi-goal game … recorded three different point streaks of four games … had at least one shot on goal in 37 of 39 contests, with a season-high six against Northeastern (Jan. 12) … earned her first career point with an assist at Minnesota Duluth (Sept. 29) … added another assist in the home opener against Syracuse (Oct. 6) … potted her first career goal with the game-winner at Holy Cross (Oct. 26) … picked up a single assist against UConn (Nov. 17), scored once in BC’s win over BU (Nov. 20) and twice at Holy Cross (Nov. 24) and then picked up two assists at Northeastern (Nov. 27) for a four-game point streak … named Rookie of the Week after picking up one goal and one assist against Northeastern (Jan. 12) … assisted on the game-winning goal at Vermont (Jan. 18) … had a one goal, two assist game against Holy Cross (Feb. 1) … kicked off a four-game goal streak with one goal and one assist against New Hampshire (Feb. 8) before going on to score against Northeastern (Feb. 12), pot the game-winner against Maine (Feb. 14) and a single-goal the next night (Feb. 15) … had an assist in both conference tournament quarterfinal games against UConn (March 1-2), including the overtime, series clincher to earn Rookie of the Week honors… scored in the Hockey East semifinal game against BU (March 9) and added an assist in the championship game against Northeastern (March 10).
BEFORE BC
A member of the 2017-18 U.S. Under-18 National Team … won a gold medal at the 2018 IIHF Women’s Under-18 World Championship in Russia … skated in all five games of the 2018 U18 World Championships, recording two points from one goal and one assist … participated in the 2016 Women’s National Festival, as well as two Girls Select U18 Player Development Camps (2016, 2017) … posted four points in four games at the 2017 U18 Select Camp … played prep hockey at Tabor Academy where she was the captain in 2017-18 … selected to the ALL-USA Girls Hockey Second Team … was the 2018 NEPSAC Division I Player of the Year and a three-time All-New England honoree (2017 and 2018 First Team; 2016 Second Team) … the 2018 Independent School League Most Valuable Player … won the 2018 Boston Bruins’ John Carlton Memorial Trophy, which is annually awarded to student-athletes in Eastern Massachusetts high school hockey or junior hockey who combine exceptional hockey skills with academic excellence … a three-time Tabor team MVP … before moving to Tabor in 2015-16, played two seasons at Burlington High School, where she scored 78 goals and added 46 assists in 45 career games … played club hockey with the Boston Jr. Eagles, winning the 2015 Under-14 USA Hockey Girls Tier 1 National Championships … part of four Massachusetts state championship teams in ascending age groups … scored the game-winning goal in overtime in the U12 championship game… also on three semifinalist teams: 2014 U14, 2016 U16 and 2018 U19 … played under Mike Mullowney, a former BC men’s hockey player, on the Jr. Eagles … also played field hockey and softball at Tabor where she captained both teams and earned team MVP honors in both sports
PERSONAL
Kelly Rose Browne … daughter of Jim and Meg Browne … has a twin sister Erin and a younger brother Colin … her father played hockey at Framingham State College, while her mother played softball at Westfield State College … enrolled in the Carroll School of Management … enjoys listening to music in her spare time … hope to work in finance after her graduation from BC ... management major in the Carroll School of Management ... recipient of The Dailey Family Scholarship Fund
AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2022-23)
Team captain ... first three-year captain in Boston College hockey history, men's or women's ... played in all 36 contests, recording 17 points on six goals and 11 assists … had three multi-point games on the year, scoring twice against Maine (Jan. 5), putting up two assists against Holy Cross (Dec. 3) and potting one goal and one assist against Maine (Jan. 6) … scored one game-winning goal … ranked second in Hockey East and 15th in the country with 385 face-off wins … matched her career-high with 21 face-off wins at Holy Cross (Dec. 2) … recorded at least 10 wins in 21 games and at least 15 wins in six games … finished third on the team with 103 shots on goal … had at least one shot on goal in 35 of 36 contests … second among BC forwards with 20 blocked shots … BC went 11-3-0 when she had a point and the program was 65-21-3 all-time in her career when she had at least one point ... participated in the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival in August ... selected for the U.S. Collegiate Select Team and played in a three-game series against Canada.
AS A SENIOR (2021-22)
Team captain … just the eighth two-year captain in program history … Hockey East Honorable Mention Team … led BC in scoring with 34 points off of 10 goals and a team-high and career-high 24 assists … her 24 assists ranked fourth in Hockey East while her 34 points tie for seventh … had 389 face-off wins to lead the team, rank second in Hockey East and tie for 14th in the nation … had a career-high four game-winning goals, tied for fourth in Hockey East and second on the team … tied a career-high with three power-play goals … fired 106 shots on goal and had at least one shot on goal in 32 of 34 contests … first among BC forwards and sixth on the team with a career-high 27 blocked shots … had at least 10 face-off wins in 25 games and at least 15 wins in seven contests … recorded 10 multi-point games on the year, one multi-goal game and six multi-assist games … had three, three-assist games … with three assists against Holy Cross (Jan. 21), she became the 17th player in program history to eclipse 100 career points … BC went 15-5-0 when she had at least one point … whistled for just one penalty on the year.
AS A JUNIOR (2020-21)
Team captain … one of just 10 junior captains in program history … Hockey East First Team All-Star … played in all 20 games … Hockey East Player of the Week (Dec. 7) … tied for the team lead in scoring with 21 points off of seven goals and 14 assists … her 14 assists led the team, ranked fourth in Hockey East and tied for 10th in the nation … recorded 11 primary assists, tied for second most in Hockey East and fifth in the country … registered six multi-point games, good for a tie for fourth in Hockey East and first on the team, and had one multi-goal game and three multi-assist games … led the team and finished seventh in the nation with 250 face-off wins … had a .598 winning percentage at the dot, third-best in the nation among players taking at least 400 draws … had at least 10 face-off wins in 16 games and had 15 or more wins in six games … had a season-high 19 wins against Merrimack (Jan. 18) … scored one game-winning goal and assists on three others for four game-winning points … recorded one short-handed goal … had at least one point in 14 of 20 games played … opened the season with a career-high six-game point streak, recording four goals and six points over that span … earned her third career multi-goal game with two goals at UConn (Dec. 4), including a short-handed tally … had a season-high three point game on one goal and two assists at Holy Cross (Jan. 16) and became the 33rd player in program history to reach 75 career points … recorded a pair of one goal, one assist games … had single goals in two games and single assists in six games … recorded 66 shots on goal, firing at least one shot on goal in 19 of 20 games and multiple shots on goal in 18 of 20 contests … blocked 14 shots, tied for second among BC forwards … whistled for three penalties on the year … with 17 face-off wins against Providence (Feb. 12), she became the first BC player since 2014-15 to reach 1,000 career face-off wins as a junior … invited to the U.S. Women’s National Team Evaluation Camp in October and March ... invited to the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival in August.
AS A SOPHOMORE (2019-20)
Hockey East Third Team All-Star … played in all 36 games … Hockey East Player of the Week (Nov. 4) … NCAA Hockey Second Star of the Week (Nov. 5) … earned a career-high 36 points off of 13 goals and 23 assists … led the team and finished fourth in the nation with 451 face-off wins, the most wins at BC since the 2015-16 season …had three, four-point outings on the year with all coming in conference play to tie for the league lead … recorded nine multi-point games on the year and six multi-assist games … had 11 points on the power play off of two goals and nine assists to sit first on the team and tied for 10th in Hockey East … recorded a career-high four assists in a win at Holy Cross (Oct. 3) … recorded the program’s 11th four-goal game in a win over New Hampshire (Nov. 1) … picked up one goal and three assists in a win over Vermont (Jan. 17) … had one goal and one assist against Holy Cross (Jan. 31) … picked up two assists on four occasions, doing it against Syracuse (Oct. 5), Vermont (Oct. 20), No. 2 Wisconsin (Nov. 30), and No. 10 Harvard (Feb. 11) … picked up single goals against No. 1 Minnesota (Nov. 29), Boston University (Dec. 7), Providence (Jan. 25), Maine (Feb. 15) and New Hampshire (Nov. 22) … her goal against No. 1 Minnesota marked the first short-handed goal of her career … had a career-long five-game point streak (Oct. 20 to Nov. 2) and a four-game point streak (Nov. 22 to Nov. 30) … invited to USA Hockey Winter Training Camp in December … registered a career-high 21 face-off wins at the dot against Maine (Oct. 23) … recorded at least 15 wins in nine contests … had a hand in six game-winning goals, scoring one and assisting on five others … fired 110 shots on goal, third on the team … fired a season-high eight shots on goal at UConn (Nov. 23) … had 34 blocked shots, sixth on the team and second among forwards and also 10th among Hockey East forwards …made her senior U.S. Women’s National Team debut at the Rivalry Series in December.
AS A FRESHMAN (2018-19)
A selection to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team … a two-time Hockey East Rookie of the Week selection (Jan. 14 and March 4) … led BC’s rookies and tied for fifth on the team with 26 points off of 11 goals and 15 assists … ranked tied for 10th in the country among all rookies in scoring ... recorded 10 points (3g, 7a) on the power play, good for a tie for third on the team and sixth in the country among all first-year players … recorded 361 face-off wins, the first Hockey East rookie in two seasons to eclipse 360 wins … had at least 10 face-off wins in 16 games and had a season-high 14 face-off wins in five games … finished the year a plus-7 and had 21 blocked shots … whistled for just three penalties all season ... had five multi-point outings on the year and one multi-goal game … recorded three different point streaks of four games … had at least one shot on goal in 37 of 39 contests, with a season-high six against Northeastern (Jan. 12) … earned her first career point with an assist at Minnesota Duluth (Sept. 29) … added another assist in the home opener against Syracuse (Oct. 6) … potted her first career goal with the game-winner at Holy Cross (Oct. 26) … picked up a single assist against UConn (Nov. 17), scored once in BC’s win over BU (Nov. 20) and twice at Holy Cross (Nov. 24) and then picked up two assists at Northeastern (Nov. 27) for a four-game point streak … named Rookie of the Week after picking up one goal and one assist against Northeastern (Jan. 12) … assisted on the game-winning goal at Vermont (Jan. 18) … had a one goal, two assist game against Holy Cross (Feb. 1) … kicked off a four-game goal streak with one goal and one assist against New Hampshire (Feb. 8) before going on to score against Northeastern (Feb. 12), pot the game-winner against Maine (Feb. 14) and a single-goal the next night (Feb. 15) … had an assist in both conference tournament quarterfinal games against UConn (March 1-2), including the overtime, series clincher to earn Rookie of the Week honors… scored in the Hockey East semifinal game against BU (March 9) and added an assist in the championship game against Northeastern (March 10).
BEFORE BC
A member of the 2017-18 U.S. Under-18 National Team … won a gold medal at the 2018 IIHF Women’s Under-18 World Championship in Russia … skated in all five games of the 2018 U18 World Championships, recording two points from one goal and one assist … participated in the 2016 Women’s National Festival, as well as two Girls Select U18 Player Development Camps (2016, 2017) … posted four points in four games at the 2017 U18 Select Camp … played prep hockey at Tabor Academy where she was the captain in 2017-18 … selected to the ALL-USA Girls Hockey Second Team … was the 2018 NEPSAC Division I Player of the Year and a three-time All-New England honoree (2017 and 2018 First Team; 2016 Second Team) … the 2018 Independent School League Most Valuable Player … won the 2018 Boston Bruins’ John Carlton Memorial Trophy, which is annually awarded to student-athletes in Eastern Massachusetts high school hockey or junior hockey who combine exceptional hockey skills with academic excellence … a three-time Tabor team MVP … before moving to Tabor in 2015-16, played two seasons at Burlington High School, where she scored 78 goals and added 46 assists in 45 career games … played club hockey with the Boston Jr. Eagles, winning the 2015 Under-14 USA Hockey Girls Tier 1 National Championships … part of four Massachusetts state championship teams in ascending age groups … scored the game-winning goal in overtime in the U12 championship game… also on three semifinalist teams: 2014 U14, 2016 U16 and 2018 U19 … played under Mike Mullowney, a former BC men’s hockey player, on the Jr. Eagles … also played field hockey and softball at Tabor where she captained both teams and earned team MVP honors in both sports
PERSONAL
Kelly Rose Browne … daughter of Jim and Meg Browne … has a twin sister Erin and a younger brother Colin … her father played hockey at Framingham State College, while her mother played softball at Westfield State College … enrolled in the Carroll School of Management … enjoys listening to music in her spare time … hope to work in finance after her graduation from BC ... management major in the Carroll School of Management ... recipient of The Dailey Family Scholarship Fund
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