Clarkson's Rattray Cops Kazmaier Award

Clarkson University senior forward Jamie Lee Rattray is this year's winner of the Patty Kazmaier Award as the top player in NCAA Division I women's college hockey.

The second-leading scorer in the nation this year with 28 goals and 36 assists for 64 points in 40 games, Rattray was previously named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Year, and was also a First-Team All-ECAC selection.

She has also helped the Golden Knights to their first-ever Frozen Four, where Clarkson will face two-time defending NCAA champion Minnesota on Sunday in Hamden, Conn, for the title. The Ontario native has had five assists in two NCAA Tournament games as Clarkson ousted first Boston College, and then Mercyhurst.

The Kazmaier Award is named in honor of the late Patty Kazmaier, a four-year varsity letterwinner and All-Ivy League blueliner at Princeton University from 1981-86. The award is based on skill, sportsmanship, clutch play, character, scholarship and community involvement, according to the ECAC web site.

I spoke to Rattray last year for New York Hockey Journal, before she helped Clarkson to an NCAA Tournament berth. In four seasons, she has posted 69-99—168 points, to go along with 143 penalty minutes. She has also tallied 22 power-play goals and 18 game-winners in 137 outings, with one more game—the biggest—to go in her Clarkson career.

Rattray Article Up at NYHJ

Story on Clarkson junior forward Jamie Lee Rattray is now up at the NYHJ web site. 

The Golden Knights are 15-4-0 overall and ranked second in the nation, despite losing to No. 5 Boston College, 5-1, last night in Potsdam. Clarkson is also 7-0-1 in ECAC play.

Rattray has 15 goals and 16 assists for a team-leading 31 points through 18 games, although she has been skating with Canada’s National Women’s Under-22/Development Team at the 2013 Meco Cup in Germany.

Rattray Leading Clarkson Scoring Parade

Saw my first women's college game in probably four years last week when No. 3 Clarkson topped host Princeton, 2-1, in overtime at Hobey Baker Rink on Nov. 17.

Tallying the winning goal for the Golden Knights was junior forward Jamie Lee Rattray, who had a hat trick the night before at Quinnipiac, and is one of the top scorers in the nation with 13 goals and 12 assists for 25 points through 14 games. She's had at least one point in all but one game so far this fall, and is on pace to set new personal highs in all three scoring categories this season. .

Clarkson is also currently atop the ECAC Division I women's standings with a 6-0-0 record in conference play. The Golden Knights are 12-2-0 overall, with the only blemishes so far coming at Mercyhurst and North Dakota, which both made the NCAA Tournament last spring. Clarkson itself is attempting to get back to the big dance for just the second time ever in its short history, and first since 2010

A profile I wrote on Rattray will appear in an upcoming issue of New York Hockey Journal.