By Benjamin Worgull | Jake Bunz would welcome the opportunity to lead a symposium for all incoming student-athletes at the collegiate level. He would do so for all those who come in with dreams of being the team’s leading scorer, winning championships or garnering a professional contract, and let them know that failure to accomplish those goals don’t define […] | more
By Tim Costello | For Norwich senior defenseman Cam Beecy, being named as a Hockey Humanitarian Award finalist is just surreal. But that is the kind of response one might expect from an Air Force ROTC college student who will graduate in May and begin his training as a military nurse in the Sacramento, California, area at Travis Air […] | more
By Pete Souris | The Hockey Humanitarian Award Foundation today announced the five finalists for the 2019 Hockey Humanitarian Award, presented annually to college hockey’s “finest citizen” for leadership in community service. Cam Beecy (Stowe, Vt.), Senior, Defense, Norwich University Beecy has embodied the epitome of the NCAA student-athlete during his four years as an Air Force ROTC scholarship […] | more
By The Hockey Humanitarian Foundation | Minneapolis, Minn. — The Hockey Humanitarian Award Foundation today announced 17 nominees for the 2019 Hockey Humanitarian Award. The award is presented annually to college hockey’s finest citizen — a student-athlete who makes significant contributions not only to his or her team but also to the community-at-large through leadership in volunteerism. The following are this […] | more
By Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) | Credit: Thomas Balfour, Uniformed Services University Newswise — Bethesda, MD – Air Force 2nd Lt. Sidney Peters, the four-time Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Scholar-Athlete, WCHA All-Academic, Academic All-Big Ten honoree, and 2018 Hockey Humanitarian Award recipient, has been named as one of the NCAA’s Top 30 Woman of the Year honorees for her “demonstrated […] | more
By The Hockey Humanitarian Foundation | Julian Larrea had been paired with Sidney Peters for a few weeks as a University of Minnesota volunteer emergency medical technician before Peters mentioned that she was a goaltender on the Gophers women’s hockey team. It came up only because Larrea asked about her other interests. When Peters was nominated for the Hockey Humanitarian Award, […] | more
By Pete Souris | The other four award finalists also included: Camil Blanchet (Bowdoin); Courtney Pensavalle (Yale); Luke Rivera (SUNY Fredonia) and Lauren Spring (Ohio State). The Hockey Humanitarian Award is given each year to college hockey’s finest citizen — a student-athlete who makes significant contributions not only to his or her team, but also to the community-at-large through […] | more
By The Hockey Humanitarian Foundation | The Hockey Humanitarian Award Foundation will honor its 23rd recipient on Friday, April 6th at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, Minn. as part of the 2018 Men’s Frozen Four weekend. The event will begin at approximately 4:15 (CT)/5:15pm (ET). The Hockey Humanitarian Award is presented annually to college hockey’s “finest citizen” for leadership in […] | more
By The Hockey Humanitarian Foundation | A look at Lauren Spring’s extracurricular calendar makes one wonder how she manages her busy life as a student-athlete at the Ohio State. Let alone carry a 3.47 grade point average (4.0 last semester) or captain the Buckeyes women’s hockey team to unprecedented program heights this season, but how fitting that her hockey academy in […] | more
By Russell Jaslow | “I couldn’t wrap my head around it.” That’s what Luke Rivera thought when as a 14-year-old kid in summer school, he received a phone call that his mother, at just 44 years old, suffered an ischemic stroke, leaving half her body paralyzed. “It caught me very, very off guard,” he said. “I didn’t really understand […] | more