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Gwyneth Philips
Gwyneth Philips (born August 17, 2000) is an American ice hockey goaltender and member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She was drafted 14th overall by PWHL Ottawa in the 2024 PWHL draft. She played college ice hockey at Northeastern was named the WHCA National Goalie of the Year in 2023. Early life Philips attended Shady Side Academy where she played ice hockey and lacrosse. She won the Women's Interscholastic Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic (WIHLMA) Championship in 2016, 2017 and 2019. She was named First-Team All-WIHLMA in 2015, 2016 and 2019. Playing career College Philips began her collegiate hockey career for Northeastern during the 2019–20 season. During her freshman year she appeared in seven games, and posted a 5–0–0 record with three shutouts. She recorded three shutouts in her first three career games. She served as the backup goaltender for Aerin Frankel her first three years at Northeastern. During that time she appeared in 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens, Ohio
Athens is a city in Athens County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 23,849 at the 2020 United States census. Located along the Hocking River within Appalachian Ohio about southeast of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, Athens is best known as the home of Ohio University, a large public research university with an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 21,000 students. It is the principal city of the Athens County, Ohio, Athens micropolitan area. History The first permanent European settlers arrived in Athens in 1797, more than a decade after the United States victory in the American Revolutionary War. In 1800, the town site was first surveyed and plotted and incorporated as a village in 1811. Ohio had become a state in 1803. Ohio University was chartered in 1804, the first public institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory. Previously part of Washington County, Ohio, Athens County was formed in 1805, List of Ohio county name ety ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively modified by European colonists, reducing the violence, to create its current collegiate and professional form. Players use the head of the lacrosse stick to carry, pass, catch, and shoot the ball into the goal. The sport has five versions that have different sticks, fields, rules and equipment: field lacrosse, women's lacrosse, box lacrosse, lacrosse sixes and intercrosse. The men's games, field lacrosse (outdoor) and box lacrosse (indoor), are contact sports and all players wear protective gear: helmet, gloves, shoulder pads, and elbow pads. The women's game is played outdoors and does not allow body contact but does allow stick to stick contact. The only protective gear required for women players is eyegear, while go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Athletic
''The Athletic'' is a subscription-based sports journalism department of ''The New York Times''. It provides national and local coverage in 47 North American cities as well as the United Kingdom. ''The Athletic'' also covers national stories from top professional and college sports. ''The Athletic'' coverage focuses on a mix of long-form journalism, original reporting, and in-depth analysis. Its business model is predicated on dis-aggregating the sports section of local newspapers, and reaching non-local fans not reached by a local newspaper. ''The Athletic'' was launched by Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann in January 2016 as an independent subscription-based online sports magazine. It gradually expanded its stable of writers over the next few years to provide better coverage of more teams in more markets, including in the United Kingdom. However, the magazine remained unable to earn enough revenue without advertising to make a profit, and the owners began to seek an outside buy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilana Kloss Playoff Most Valuable Player
The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) presents numerous awards to individual players and personnel at the end of each season, including those recognizing the most valuable players, and the season's best forward, defender, goaltender, rookie, and coach. The recipients of these awards are chosen by a "selection committee with a cross-section of representatives including national and local media, former players, the Professional Women's Hockey League Players Association, and team personnel." Awards honoring the season's top points and goal scorers are also respectively presented by the league. Key Billie Jean King Most Valuable Player The ''Billie Jean King Most Valuable Player'' award honors the most valuable player in the overall season, and was named after PWHL Advisory Board member Billie Jean King. Ilana Kloss Playoff Most Valuable Player The ''Ilana Kloss Playoff Most Valuable Player'' award honors the most valuable player in the postseason Walter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 PWHL Finals
The 2025 PWHL Finals was the championship series of the Professional Women's Hockey League 2024–25 PWHL season and the culmination of the 2025 PWHL playoffs. The winners of the semifinals, the Ottawa Charge and the Minnesota Frost competed in a Playoff format#Best-of-five playoff, best-of-five series to determine the league's champion and winner of the Walter Cup. The Frost defeated the Charge in four games to win their second consecutive Walter Cup. The series began on May 20. The Charge had home-ice advantage in the series as the team with the better regular season record. Both teams had 44 points in the regular season, however Ottawa earned a higher ranking due to having more regulation wins than Minnesota. It was the second straight season that both teams heading into the final were the lower ranked seeds in the semifinals. In the regular season, the two teams played each other six times, with both teams winning three games. Paths to the Finals Minnesota Frost This w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
