Kendall Cornine (born December 17, 1996) is an American

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who played in the now defunct

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(PHF) with the

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Playing career

Cornine graduated from Morristown–Beard School, a private

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, where she set the school's career scoring record with 199

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(104 goals + 95 assists) in just 74 games. As a

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, she also played with the East Coast Wizards U19 team of the Eastern Women's Hockey Conference (EWHC). She was named the

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High School Player of the Year twice, in 2014 and 2015, and was the 2015 New Jersey Girls High School Player of the Year. In 2015, Cornine joined the

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program in the

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(CHA) conference of the

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. She went on to set the team career scoring record at the NCAA Division I level with 64 points (34+26) across 140 games and served as Rochester

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in her final two seasons. Cornine was drafted in the second round, 6th overall in the

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by the Metropolitan Riveters, the first player from the

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(RIT) in history to be drafted into the NWHL. She scored 24 points in 24 games in her

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professional season, finishing tied for second on the Riveters in goals, being named to the 2020 NWHL All-Star Game, and picking up the nickname "Score-nine." She re-signed with the Riveters in March 2020, becoming the first player in the league to re-sign for the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornine, Kendall 1996 births Living people 21st-century American sportswomen American women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players from New Jersey Metropolitan Riveters players Morristown-Beard School alumni RIT Tigers women's ice hockey players Sportspeople from Livingston, New Jersey