Athletic Media Relations - Women s Hockey Release. RELEASE DATE: October 2, 2012

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1 Home of the Huskies Season Begins Minnesota October 5-6, :07 pm/4:07 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minn SCSU Schedule October Minnesota* 7:07 p.m. Minnesota* 4:07 p.m. Bemidji State* 7:07 p.m. Bemidji State* 3:07 p.m. North Dakota* 7:07 p.m. North Dakota* 7:07 p.m. Providence Noon Providence Noon November 11/2 OHIO STATE* 7:07 p.m. 11/3 OHIO STATE* 2:07 p.m. 11/9 LINDENWOOD 2:07 p.m. 11/10 LINDENWOOD 2:07 p.m. 11/16 MINNESOTA DULUTH* 7:07 p.m. 11/17 MINNESOTA DULUTH* 2:07 p.m. Wisconsin* 2:07 p.m. Wisconsin* 2:07 p.m. Lindenwood 7 p.m. December Lindenwood 2 p.m. 12/7 MINNESOTA STATE* 2:07 p.m. 12/8 MINNESOTA STATE* 2:07 p.m. January 1/4 BEMIDJI STATE* 2:07 p.m. 1/5 BEMIDJI STATE* 2:07 p.m. Minnesota Duluth* 3:07 p.m. Minnesota Duluth* 3:07 p.m. Ohio State* 6:07 p.m. Ohio State* 3:07 p.m. 1/25 NORTH DAKOTA* 7:07 p.m. 1/26 NORTH DAKOTA* 2:07 p.m. February 2/8 WISCONSIN* 2:07 p.m. 2/9 WISCONSIN* 2:07 p.m. Minnesota State* 7:07 p.m. Minnesota State* 3:07 p.m. 2/22 MINNESOTA* 7:07 p.m. 2/23 MINNESOTA* 2:07 p.m. ALL CAPS represents a Home Game All Home Games played in SCSU s Nat l Hockey & Event Center All Games listed in Central Time *WCHA Conference Game March 3/1-3 WCHA 1st Rd Highest Seed 3/8-9 WCHA Final Face-off Minneapolis, Minn. 3/16-19 NCAA Highest Seed 3/22-24 NCAA Frozen Four Minneapolis, Minn SCSUTIX or S t. C l o u d S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y HUSKY ATHLETICS Athletic Media Relations - Women s Hockey Release Contact: Andy Sailer or saan0602@stcloudstate.edu SCSU Women s Hockey News RELEASE DATE: October 2, 2012 NEW SEASON BEGINS: The Huskies will open up their campaign traveling to Minneapolis to take on the Gophers of the University of Minnesota on October 6th and 7th at Ridder Arena. Friday s game will start at 7:07 p.m. and Saturday s is set for a 4:07 p.m. start. LAST SEASON: St. Cloud State was overall in and in the WCHA, good for 7th place. TEAM CAPTAINS: Senior forward Alex Nelson (Andover, Minn.) will wear the captain s C for the season. Senior Haylea Schmid (Oak Grove, Minn.) and Senior Katie Allen (Red Deer, Alberta) will don the A as alternate captains. LOOKING FORWARD: St. Cloud State returns 19 players from last season only loosing three seniors last year. The Huskies are returning 96 of its 114 points (36g, 60a) scored during the season. LEADING THE WAY: Junior Molli Mott returns after leading the Huskies in goals (10g, 4a) as well as sophomore Abby Ness who led the Huskies in assists (2 g, 12a) last season. Also, returning is senior Captain Alex Nelson (7g, 4a), junior forward Julia Gilbert (2g, 7a), and goalie, rookie of the year recipient Julie Friend (599 svs). SENIOR LEADERSHIP: With the biggest class listed on the roster the Huskies hope to get great play and leadership this season out of their senior class which includes Katie Allen (Red Deer, Alberta), Haylea Schmid (Oak Grove, Minn.), Kylie Lane (Roseau, Minn.), Lisa Martinson (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Alex Nelson (Andover, Minn.), Callie Dahl (Stillwater, Minn.), Ellie Sitek (Edina, Minn.), and Anna Donlan (Hillsboro, Wis.), who is a two-sport athlete also competing for St. Cloud State volleyball. JUNIOR CLASS: Julia Gilbert (Hermantown), Sydney Burghardt (Medicine Hat, AB) and Molli Mott (Colorado Springs, Colo.) return for their third season on the front line. Returning to defend the blue line are Amanda Monkman (Roseau), Michelle Burke (London, Ontario), and Cari Coen (Manhatten Beach, Calif.). SOPHOMORES LOOK TO SHINE: With a year of collegiate hockey now under their belts, the sophomores look to step up big for the Huskies in The sophomores include Julie Friend (Minnetonka, Minn.), Audrey Hanmer (Forest Lake, Minn.), Amy Olson (Roseau, Minn.), Amanda Arbogast (Virginia, Minn.), Abby Ness (Roseau, Minn.), and Kalli Funk (Roseville, Minn.). NEW FACES: St. Cloud State welcomes seven new faces to the team in One of the new faces is sophomore forward Kalli Funk. Funk is a transfer student from Niagara University where she played last season. Funk recorded seven goals and five assists at Niagara University. The Huskies also add six first year players Hanna Brodt (Roseville, Minn.), whose father played hockey at St. Cloud State from and her aunt was the first women s hockey coach at SCSU. Joining Brodt as a forward will be Vanessa Spataro (Stouffville, Ontario) who played for the Toronto Junior Aeros. Defensively, the Huskies welcome Skye Kelly (Brandon, Manitoba), Jenna Redford (Soldotna, Alaska), and Ivy Smith (Rice Lake, Wis.). Kelly, a standout blueliner for Balmoral Hall posted 10 goals and 14 assists in her senior year. Redford earned a spot on the team after trying out this fall and previously played for the Boston Shamrocks. Smith comes to SCSU after playing at Rice Lake High school. At goalie the Huskies welcome Katie Fitzgerald (Des Plaines, Ill.), who previously played for the Chicago Mission AAA team. MINNESOTA BRIEFLY: : , (WCHA/2nd) : 2-0-0, Series: Minnesota currently leads the series between the two teams WEEKEND COVERAGE: 88.1 KVSC will be covering both games live from Ridder Arena. Zack Fisch will have the call. Games will also be available via the Sports Stream online at KVSC.org. LIVE STATS: Hockey fans, there will be live stats available for both games of the on Friday and Saturday. To view live stats, visit the Minnesota Gophers athletics website at gophersports.com.

2 SCSU COACHING STAFF: HEAD COACH JEFF GIESEN: Jeff Giesen completed his sixth season at the helm of Husky Hockey in The all-time winningest coach in school history, Giesen is the third head coach since the inception of the women s program in Giesen tallied his first career victory against Robert Morris on Sept. 29, 2006, with a 4-0 shutout in the NHC. Giesen s career coaching record stands at with a mark in the ever grueling WCHA. A 1993 and 2010 graduate of St. Cloud State University, Coach Giesen and his wife Karla reside in St. Cloud, Minn., Giesen with their two daughters Delaney and Maleah. ASSISTANT COACH JIM FETTER: Originally from Waterloo, Ont., Jim Fetter comes to St. Cloud State with 25 years of coaching experience. Jim enters his second season with the Huskies this year. Before coming to St. Cloud State he was the head women s hockey coach for eight seasons at Wayne State University before the University opted to eliminate its women s hockey program in the spring of A three-time recipient of the College Hockey America Women s Coach of the Year Award, he was also a finalist for the American Fetter Hockey Coaches Association Women s Division I Coach of the Year Award in 2006 before earning the award in In eight seasons with the Wayne State Warriors, Fetter amassed a record of (.489) and 47 College Hockey Association victories. ASSISTANT COACH BRITA BRAGNALO: Brita Bragnalo is starting off her second official season with the Huskies after completing her first season as interim assistant coach for women s hockey at St. Cloud State in A familiar face to St. Cloud State women s hockey, Bragnalo was a four-year standout on the blue-line for the Huskies from Serving as the team captain for her senior stint in , Bragnalo charted 29 points (6g, 23a) in the Cardinal and Black and is tied for fifth all-time with 145 career games Bragnalo St. Cloud State University Women s Hockey Page 2 played. Bragnalo served as a student assistant coach for St. Cloud State women s hockey during the season one of the most successful seasons in school history, finishing third in the WCHA regular season standings for the first time in school and league history. Bragnalo s most recent coaching experience before SCSU was at Shattuck St. Mary s Prep School during the fall of 2010 in Faribault, Minn., where she served as the assistant girls hockey coach for the defending national champion U-16 team. TEAM CAPTAINS: Senior forward Alex Nelson (Andover, Minn.) will wear the captain s C for the season. Senior Haylea Schmid (Oak Grove, Minn.) and Senior Katie Allen (Red Deer, Alberta) will don the A as alternate captains SCSU Women s Hockey Roster No. Name YR POS HT L/R Hometown / Previous School 1 Julie Friend SO G 5-8 L Minnetonka, Minn. / Minnetonka High School 2 Katie Allen - A SR D 5-3 L Red Deer, Alberta / Red Deer Sutter Fund 3 Audrey Hanmer SO D 5-7 R Wyoming, Minn. / Forest Lake High School 4 Amanda Monkman JR D 5-4 L Roseau, Minn. / Roseau High School 5 Hanna Brodt FY F 5-4 R Roseville, Minn. / Roseville High School 6 Amanda Arbogast SO F 5-8 L Virginia, Minn. / Eveleth-Gilbert Area H.S. 7 Skye Kelly FY D 5-7 L Brandon, Manitoba / Balmoral Hall Prep 8 Michelle Burke JR D 5-6 L London, Ontario / Bluewater Junior Hawks 9 Haylea Schmid - A SR F 5-7 R Oak Grove, Minn. / St. Francis High School 10 Kylie Lane SR F 5-5 L Roseau, Minn. / Roseau High School 11 Lisa Martinson SR D 5-5 R St. Louis Park, Minn. / St. Louis Park High 12 Amy Olson SO F 5-9 R Roseau, Minn. / Roseau High School 13 Sydney Burghardt JR F 5-5 L Medicine Hat, Alberta / Balmoral Hall Prep 14 Julia Gilbert JR F 5-11 R Hermantown, Minn. / High School 15 Alex Nelson - C SR F 5-9 R Andover, Minn. / Andover High School 16 Vanessa Spataro FY F 5-5 L Stouffville, Ontario / Toronto Junior Aeros 17 Jenna Redford FY D/F 5-6 L Soldotna, Alaska / Soldotna High School 18 Callie Dahl SR F 5-4 L Stillwater, Minn. / Stillwater High School 19 Abby Ness SO F 5-6 R Roseau, Minn. / Roseau High School 21 Ellie Sitek SR F 5-7 R Edina, Minn. / Edina High School 22 Kalli Funk SO F 5-5 L Roseville, Minn. / Niagara University 23 Molli Mott JR F 5-5 L Colorado Springs, Colo. / Colorado Selects 27 Ivy Smith FY D 5-9 R Rice Lake, Wis. / Rice Lake High School 28 Cari Coen JR D 5-4 R Manhatten Beach, Calif / Wayne State (Mich.) 30 Anna Donlan SR G 5-8 L Hillsboro, Wis. / Wisconsin Wild 35 Katie Fitzgerald FY G 5-10 L Des Plaines, Ill. / Chicago Mission AAA COACHING STAFF Head Coach: Jeff Giesen Assistant Coach: Jim Fetter Assistant Coach: Brita Schroeder Administrative Asst.: Dean Thibodeau Equipment Manager: Eric Kupka Athletic Trainer: Jacqueline Phillips PRONUNCIATIONS Brodt... Brote Burke... Berk Burghardt...Berg-HEART Coen... Cone Dahl...Doll Giesen...GEE-sen BY CLASS Seniors...8 Juniors...6 Sophomores...6 First Years...6 WEB SITE: To obtain complete information about SCSU hockey this season, please go to the Husky Home Page at For information on the WCHA, please check out the league website at USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Division I Women s Hockey Poll September 25, Rank School Record Points Last Poll 1 Minnesota (19) Wisconsin Cornell Boston College North Dakota Boston University Minnesota-Duluth Harvard St. Lawrence Mercyhurst Others receiving votes: Northwestern 31, Clarkson 11, Providence 3, Quinnipiac 1.

3 St. Cloud State University Women s Hockey Page WCHA Standings (Oct. 2) Conference Only Overall Pts GP Record SW GF-GA GP Record GF- GA 1 Wisconsin Minnesota State Bemidji State Minnesota Minnesota Duluth North Dakota Ohio State St. Cloud State SCSU Situations All-Time Game One of the Series Game Two of the Series Game Three of the Series Home Record Road Record Neutral Record SCSU in Minnesota SCSU outside of MN USCHO.com Division I Women s Hockey Poll - Oct. 1, 2012 Team (First Place) Rec. Pts Last Poll 1 Minnesota (15) Cornell Boston College Wisconsin North Dakota Boston University St. Lawrence Minnesota-Duluth Mercyhurst Northeastern Others receiving votes: Harvard 20, Clarkson 6, Quinnipiac 2, Providence 1. Julie Friend Huskies score first Opponents score first Lead after 1st Period Behind after 1st Period Tied after 1st Period Lead after 2nd Period Behind after 2nd Period Tied after 2nd Period Huskies outshoot opponent Opponents outshoot SCSU Shots are even Under 20 shots Have shots Have shots Have shots Have 50+ shots One goal game Two goal game Three goal game Four goal game Five goal game or more Overtime games Shootout games Shutouts by SCSU 0 30 SCSU shutout by opponent Huskies in September Huskies in October Huskies in November Huskies in December Huskies in January Huskies in February Huskies in March Following a win Following a loss Following a tie Team Captains (left to right) this year are Alex Nelson and the two Assistants are Haylea Schmid and Katie Allen. Location... St. Cloud, Minn. Founded Enrollment...17,200 Colors...Cardinal and Black Arena... National Hockey & Event Center Capacity...5,371 Conference...WCHA Head Coach...Jeff Giesen Alma Mater...St. Cloud State, 1993 SCSU Quick Facts Career Record (7th season) WCHA Record (7th season) Asst. Coach...Jim Fetter Asst. Coach...Brita Schroeder Hockey SID...Andy Sailer Phone... (320) Fax...(320) saan0602@stcloudstate.edu Web... Playoff Record WCHA Regular Season Non-Conference Record Overall Record

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