Friday, November 21
Sanford Center • Bemidji, Minn.
3 p.m.
St. Cloud State
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Bemidji State
Photo by: Kayden Kircher
No. 10 St. Cloud State Women’s Hockey Hits the Road for Bemidji State
11/20/2025 2:49:00 PM | Women's Hockey
Huskies head north for pair of games against BSU, look for first conference win since Oct. 17
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – No. 10 St. Cloud State Women's Hockey (4-9-1, 1-8-1 Western Collegiate Hockey Association) hits the road for a conference series against in-state foe, Bemidji State (3-8-1, 1-8-1 WCHA) this weekend. Puck drops from the Sanford Center in Bemidji are slated for 3 p.m. on Friday and 2 p.m. on Saturday.
SERIES NOTES
FOLLOW THE HUSKIES
Both games will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus (note – a paid subscription is required). Audio coverage will be provided on the KVSC Sports Stream with KVSC talent Brian Moos on the call. Live stats will be provided by Bemidji State.
Game 15 – @ Bemidji State (Sanford Center // Bemidji) – Friday, Nov. 21 / 3 p.m. / Watch ($ - B1G+) / Live stats / Listen (KVSC Sports Stream)
Game 16 – @ Bemidji State (Sanford Center // Bemidji) – Saturday, Nov. 22 / 2 p.m. / Watch ($ - B1G+) / Live stats / Listen (KVSC Sports Stream)
Links to each coverage option are available on the SCSU Women's Hockey schedule page.
SERIES HISTORY
SCSU leads the all-time series against the Beavers, 56-51-10, including 12 game win streak. The Huskies are 26-26-4 all time against BSU in Bemidji and last season SCSU went 4-0-0 with three shutouts and outscored the Beavers 9-2.
LET'S GO POLLING
The Huskies remained at No. 10 in the U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Poll and moved up two spots back to No. 10 in the USA Hockey Poll. St. Cloud State is one of six WCHA programs featured in the rankings, with one additional club receiving votes. Bemidji State enters the matchup unranked.
LAST TIME OUT
Then-No. 10/12 SCSU went 0-1-1 against No. 1 Wisconsin at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud. The Huskies fell 5-1 in game one before tying game two, 4-4. The Badgers went on to win the shootout, 2-1, for the extra conference point.
Notes from the games
GAME 13 - 5-1 loss vs. #1 Wisconsin (11-14-25)
Last season, Klára Hymlárová (2019-24) became the first former Husky to be drafted into the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), the first to be named to an opening day roster and the first to play in a PWHL game. This season, Hymlárová will be joined by SCSU alumnae Sanni Ahola (2020-25), Emma Gentry (2020-25), Laura Kluge (2017-21) and Dayle Ross (2021-25) on PWHL opening day rosters.
Hymlárová is looking to win back-to-back Walter Cups with the Minnesota Frost, who as a franchise has won the first two league championships. Ahola was the 37th overall pick by the Ottawa Charge in the 2025 PWHL Draft in June becoming the program's first netminder to be drafted. Gentry became the highest draft pick in program history when she was selected in the second round with the 11th overall pick by the Toronto Sceptres. Kluge, who became the second former Husky to play in a PWHL game after joining the Sceptres late in the 2024-25 season signed with the Boston Fleet during the offseason. Ross became the program's first blueliner drafted when she was picked No. 25 overall by the New York Sirens.
The Frost and Sceptres open their seasons against each other on Friday, Nov. 21, while the Sirens and Charge will face-off on Saturday, Nov. 22 and the Fleet make their 2025-26 season debut on Sunday, Nov. 23.
THIS WEEK IN THE WCHA
Thursday, Nov. 20
No. 15 St. Thomas at No. 1 Wisconsin* - 7 PM
Friday, Nov. 21
No. 10 St. Cloud State at Bemidji State* - 3 PM
No. 3 Ohio State at No. 5/4 Minnesota Duluth* - 6 PM
(RV) Minnesota State at No. 2 Minnesota* - 6 PM
No. 15 St. Thomas at No. 1 Wisconsin* - 7 PM
Saturday, Nov. 22
No. 10 St. Cloud State at Bemidji State* - 2 PM
No. 2 Minnesota at (RV) Minnesota State* - 2 PM - FOX9+
No. 3 Ohio State at No. 5/4 Minnesota Duluth* - 3 PM
*WCHA Game
** Rankings are USCHO/USA Hockey
***All times in CT
HUSKIES REPRESENTING THEIR COUNTRIES
Senior forward Svenja Voigt (Cologne, Germany) and aluma Laura Kluge '21 competed for their native Germany at the 2025 Deuschland Cup at the VR-Bank Landshut Arena in Landshut, Germany from Nov. 5-8, while alumnae Klára Hymlárová '24 (Czechia) and Sanni Ahola '25 (Finland) each played in the 2025-26 Women's Euro Hockey Tour's Lidl Hockey Games in Ängelholm, Sweden, from Nov. 5–8.
NURSING STUDENT BY DAY, GOALTENDER BY NIGHT
Graduate goaltender Jojo Chobak's (Chicago, Ill.) journey as the first hockey player to make their way through St. Cloud State University's nursing program was recently featured on #OurSCSU.
WCHA COMMISSIONER'S CORNER
Redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) was featured on the most recent installment of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Commissioner's Corner podcast series on Nov. 5. In the series, WCHA Commissioner Michelle McAteer sits down one-on-one with extraordinary student-athletes from across the league to discuss real-life topics, hockey, and everything in between. You can watch the video on the WCHA Hockey YouTube page.
WCHA WEEKLY HONORS
Junior forward Alice Sauriol (Sherbrooke, Quebec) was the most recent Husky to earn Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) weekly honors after being tabbed as the league's Forward of the Week on Oct. 20. She is the third Husky to win WCHA weekly honors this season, following freshman forward Maria Mikaelyan (Moscow, Russia) who earned Rookie of the Week honors on Oct. 13 and sophomore defender Siiri Yrjölä (Vantaa, Finland), who was named Defender of the Week on Sept. 22.
2025-26 WCHA WEEKLY HONORS
Defender of the Week Forward of the Week
Graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) is back for her final year of collegiate eligibility after a redshirt season in 2024-25. In her first start between the pipes in since March 2, 2024 (567 days) on Sept. 20, she earned her 10th career shutout as a Husky to tie former teammate Sanni Ahola (2020-25) for the most career shutouts in program history.
This summer, Chobak was invited to the USA Hockey National Goaltender Camp and National Festival and was a U.S. Collegiate Select Team selection. In 2023-24, she went 7-11-1 over 17 starts and established new program records for single season save percentage (.939) and goals against average (1.64) while recording four shutouts. Chobak currently owns seven season top 10 marks and four career top 10 spots in the record book. In her four-year career, she owns a 28-29-3 record with a 2.22 GAA, a .923 SV% and 13 shutouts over 59 starts/69 appearances.
NEW LEADER OF THE PACK
Former assistant coach, Mira Jalosuo (MEER-ah YAH-loh-SUE-oh) was named the seventh head coach of the St. Cloud State Women's Hockey team on June 27, 2025. She is just the second woman to lead the Huskies during the program's 27-year history, following in the footsteps of Kerry Brodt Wethington, who was the programs first head coach from 1998-99 to 2001-02.
Jalosuo picked up her first win as the Huskies bench boss in her first game, a 5-0 win over Lindenwood (Mo.) on September 19. She earned her first series sweep the next day after SCSU took down the Lions 5-0 for the second straight game. It was the first time in program history that a team posted back-to-back shutouts to open a season and the fourth season in a row that the Huskies opened their season with a series sweep.
A highly decorated member of Finland's National Team, the two-time Olympian and five-time World Championships Bronze medalist spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Frost (formerly PWHL Minnesota), helping the franchise win back-to-back PWHL Walter Cups in each of the first two seasons of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).
ALL-FEMALE COACHING STAFF
For the first time in program history, the Huskies have an all-female coaching staff. SCSU is one of two programs in the WCHA and one of six programs in all of NCAA DI Women's Hockey with an all-female staff.
O CAPTAINS! OUR CAPTAINS!
St. Cloud State named four captains ahead of the 2025-26 season on Friday. Graduate student defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) with be the fifth Husky to wear the "C" as captain for two seasons, while redshirt junior defender Regan Bulger (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories), graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) and redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) will be alternate captains and wear a letter for the first time in their career.
Wolfe, who served as a co-captain in 2024-25 and an alternate captain in 2023-24, becomes just the second Husky to wear a letter in three seasons after Katy Battis (C – 1999-2000, A – 2001-02, 2002-03).
WCHA PRESEASON COACHES POLL
St. Cloud State Women's Hockey was selected to finish fifth in the 2025-26 Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Preseason Coaches' Poll, as announced by the league office on Sept. 8. The Huskies are coming off their third fifth place conference finish in a row and tied for the second most conference points in program history a season ago.
SCSU received 24 points overall in the coaches' poll and were selected to finish behind Wisconsin (49 points, seven first-place votes), Minnesota (40 points, one first-place vote) Ohio State (40 points), and Minnesota Duluth (31 points). Rounding out the poll was St. Thomas (17 points), Minnesota State (16 points) and Bemidji State (seven points).
2025-26 WCHA Preseason Coaches' Poll
Pl. Team (1st Place Votes) Points
1. Wisconsin (7) 49
t2. Minnesota (1) 40
t2. Ohio State 40
4. Minnesota Duluth 31
5. St. Cloud State 24
6. St. Thomas 17
7. Minnesota State 16
8. Bemidji State 7
*First-place votes are in parentheses (Coaches could not vote for their own team)
JOJO REPRESENTS THE STARS AND STRIPES AT THE 2025 COLLEGIATE SELECT SERIES
Graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) helped lead the U.S. Collegiate Select Team to a 1-1-1-0 record in the three-game series against Canada in the 2025 Collegiate Select Series in August at the Lake Placid Olympic Center in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The graduate student goaltender was the third active SCSU player and first netminder to be named to the Collegiate Select Team (*formerly known as the U22 Team) twice in her career. Chobak and former co-captain Emma Gentry became the fourth and fifth Huskies to make the team back in 2023 before Gentry was a back-to-back pick in 2024. Prior to that, goaltender Emma Polusny was the last Husky to make the team in 2019 and before that, defender Brittni Kuyper made back-to-back U22 squads in 2006 and 2007 while forward Holly Roberts joined Kuyper at the 2007 U22 Series.
St. Cloud State Huskies at the U.S. Collegiate Select Series
Year Name Pos.
2025 JOJO CHOBAK G
2024 Emma Gentry F
2023 Emma Gentry F
2023 JOJO CHOBAK G
2019 Emma Polusny G
2007 Holly Roberts F
2007 Brittni Kuyper D
2006 Brittni Kuyper D
THANK YOU, BRIAN
Former head coach Brian Idalski was named the first-ever head coach of Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) expansion team, PWHL Vancouver on June 23.
The 2022-23 U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) National Coach of the Year departed St. Cloud after three seasons in which he helped turn the program around, bringing the Huskies back into national prominence. Under Idalski, SCSU went 50-50-9 and recorded three of its eight highest single season win totals in program history and set numerous other individual and team records.
In 2024-25, Idalski became just the second coach in program history to amass 50 wins and was the first to do so in three seasons or less. He also became the first coach in program history to beat Minnesota on the road (0-60-2 prior) and was just the second coach to post three consecutive 15+ win seasons.
For all the latest on St. Cloud State Women's Hockey, stay tuned to SCSUHuskies.com and follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
SERIES NOTES
FOLLOW THE HUSKIES
Both games will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus (note – a paid subscription is required). Audio coverage will be provided on the KVSC Sports Stream with KVSC talent Brian Moos on the call. Live stats will be provided by Bemidji State.
Game 15 – @ Bemidji State (Sanford Center // Bemidji) – Friday, Nov. 21 / 3 p.m. / Watch ($ - B1G+) / Live stats / Listen (KVSC Sports Stream)
Game 16 – @ Bemidji State (Sanford Center // Bemidji) – Saturday, Nov. 22 / 2 p.m. / Watch ($ - B1G+) / Live stats / Listen (KVSC Sports Stream)
Links to each coverage option are available on the SCSU Women's Hockey schedule page.
SERIES HISTORY
SCSU leads the all-time series against the Beavers, 56-51-10, including 12 game win streak. The Huskies are 26-26-4 all time against BSU in Bemidji and last season SCSU went 4-0-0 with three shutouts and outscored the Beavers 9-2.
LET'S GO POLLING
The Huskies remained at No. 10 in the U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Poll and moved up two spots back to No. 10 in the USA Hockey Poll. St. Cloud State is one of six WCHA programs featured in the rankings, with one additional club receiving votes. Bemidji State enters the matchup unranked.
LAST TIME OUT
Then-No. 10/12 SCSU went 0-1-1 against No. 1 Wisconsin at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud. The Huskies fell 5-1 in game one before tying game two, 4-4. The Badgers went on to win the shootout, 2-1, for the extra conference point.
Notes from the games
GAME 13 - 5-1 loss vs. #1 Wisconsin (11-14-25)
- SCSU moves to 9-100-4 all-time against Wisconsin and 5-46-3 all-time against the Badgers in St. Cloud. UW has won nine of the last 10 matchups of the teams.
- The Huskies moved to 2-9-0 this season against teams ranked/receiving votes and 3-5-0 in home games.
- SCSU went 1-for-3 on the penalty kill and 0-for-1 on the power play. For the season, SCSU is 32-for-44 (72.7%) on the penalty kill and 4-for-34 on the power play (11.8%).
- The Badgers won 56.1% of the faceoffs outshot SCSU, 37-19 and out blocked the Huskies 11-10.
- SCSU blocked 10+ shots for the seventh time this season and fourth consecutive game.
- The Huskies gave up five goals for the fourth time this season.
- Senior forward Avery Farrell (Rogers, Minn.) scored the lone SCSU goal and was one of two Huskies to skate to a +1 mark. It was her second goal of the season.
- Junior forward Sofianna Sundelin (Ulvila, Finland) tallied the primary assist on the goal and was the other Husky to skate to a +1 mark. She became the first Husky to double-digit points this season. It was her 85th career game.
- Freshman forward Raili Mustonen (Kalajoki, Finland) recorded the secondary assist on the goal for her fifth point of the season.
- Junior forward Payton Holloway (Tomah, Wis.) went 11-and-8 on the faceoff dot. Her 11 faceoff wins were a new season best mark.
- Graduate goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) made 32 saves for the second consecutive game.
- Graduate defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) skated in her 130th career game.
- Junior forward Alice Sauriol (Sherbrooke, Quebec) skated in her 85th career game.
- SCSU moved to 9-100-5 all-time against Wisconsin and 5-46-4 all-time against the Badgers in St. Cloud. The Huskies earned their first points at home against Wisconsin since January 28, 2022.
- The Huskies have handed Wisconsin two of their last three losses/ties, dating back to last season.
- The Huskies moved to 2-9-1 this season against teams ranked/receiving votes and 3-5-1 in home games.
- SCSU went 2-for-3 on the penalty kill and 1-for-1 on the power play. For the season, SCSU is 34-for-47 (72.3%) on the penalty kill and 5-for-35 on the power play (14.3%).
- The Badgers won 58.1% of the faceoffs outshot SCSU, 56-38 and out blocked the Huskies 11-8.
- Sophomore goaltender Emilia Kyrkkö (Nokia, Finland) made 52 saves (.929 save percentage) and only allowed three even strength goals. She was named the game's first star and one of the WCHA Brew Pub 3 Stars of the Night. Her 52 saves were a career high and a season high for the Huskies. Her previous career high of 45 came last season against Ohio State on Oct. 19, 2024. Her 52 saves were the most by a SCSU netminder since Emma Polusny made 55 saves against Minnesota on Feb. 11, 2022.
- Freshman forward Maria Mikaelyan (Moscow, Russia) scored two goals including the game-tying goal that sent the game into overtime. She skated to a +2 mark and was named the game's third star. She became the second Husky with a multi-goal game this season after Sauriol did so against St. Thomas on Oct. 17. It was her second career multi-point game of the season, and she recorded a career-high eight shots on goal. Her +2 mark tied her career high. Her seven goals this season are the most on the team by three, her three power play goals are the most by two and she is tied for second on the team in points with nine.
- Freshman defender Sydney Lamb (Lombard, Ill.) notched two points including her first career goal, blocked two shots and skated to a +2 mark. Lamb recorded her first career NCAA goal and her second multi-point game of the season. She posted a career high four shots on goal and now has five points on the year. She skated to a +2 mark and now leads the team in +/- at +9.
- Junior forward Alice Sauriol (Sherbrooke, Quebec) recorded two assists. It was the eighth multi-assist game of the season for the Huskies. She now has five assists on the season and surpassed 45 career points. Sauriol is tied for the team lead in points with nine.
- Redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) scored her 15th career goal. Her four goals this season are tied for second on the team.
- Senior forward Avery Farrell (Rogers, Minn.) skated in her 120th career game and tallied an assist for the 60th point of her career. She is tied for the team lead in points with nine and assists with seven.
- Redshirt sophomore defender Marie Moran (Lakeville, Minn.), skated in her 50th career game and recorded her first assist of the season.
- Freshman defender Maélie Pion (Sherbrooke, Quebec) recorded an assist for her fifth point of the season.
- Sophomore defender Siiri Yrjölä (Vantaa, Finland) posted an assist for her 10th of her career. She is tied for the team lead in assists this season with seven.
Last season, Klára Hymlárová (2019-24) became the first former Husky to be drafted into the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), the first to be named to an opening day roster and the first to play in a PWHL game. This season, Hymlárová will be joined by SCSU alumnae Sanni Ahola (2020-25), Emma Gentry (2020-25), Laura Kluge (2017-21) and Dayle Ross (2021-25) on PWHL opening day rosters.
Hymlárová is looking to win back-to-back Walter Cups with the Minnesota Frost, who as a franchise has won the first two league championships. Ahola was the 37th overall pick by the Ottawa Charge in the 2025 PWHL Draft in June becoming the program's first netminder to be drafted. Gentry became the highest draft pick in program history when she was selected in the second round with the 11th overall pick by the Toronto Sceptres. Kluge, who became the second former Husky to play in a PWHL game after joining the Sceptres late in the 2024-25 season signed with the Boston Fleet during the offseason. Ross became the program's first blueliner drafted when she was picked No. 25 overall by the New York Sirens.
The Frost and Sceptres open their seasons against each other on Friday, Nov. 21, while the Sirens and Charge will face-off on Saturday, Nov. 22 and the Fleet make their 2025-26 season debut on Sunday, Nov. 23.
THIS WEEK IN THE WCHA
Thursday, Nov. 20
No. 15 St. Thomas at No. 1 Wisconsin* - 7 PM
Friday, Nov. 21
No. 10 St. Cloud State at Bemidji State* - 3 PM
No. 3 Ohio State at No. 5/4 Minnesota Duluth* - 6 PM
(RV) Minnesota State at No. 2 Minnesota* - 6 PM
No. 15 St. Thomas at No. 1 Wisconsin* - 7 PM
Saturday, Nov. 22
No. 10 St. Cloud State at Bemidji State* - 2 PM
No. 2 Minnesota at (RV) Minnesota State* - 2 PM - FOX9+
No. 3 Ohio State at No. 5/4 Minnesota Duluth* - 3 PM
*WCHA Game
** Rankings are USCHO/USA Hockey
***All times in CT
HUSKIES REPRESENTING THEIR COUNTRIES
Senior forward Svenja Voigt (Cologne, Germany) and aluma Laura Kluge '21 competed for their native Germany at the 2025 Deuschland Cup at the VR-Bank Landshut Arena in Landshut, Germany from Nov. 5-8, while alumnae Klára Hymlárová '24 (Czechia) and Sanni Ahola '25 (Finland) each played in the 2025-26 Women's Euro Hockey Tour's Lidl Hockey Games in Ängelholm, Sweden, from Nov. 5–8.
NURSING STUDENT BY DAY, GOALTENDER BY NIGHT
Graduate goaltender Jojo Chobak's (Chicago, Ill.) journey as the first hockey player to make their way through St. Cloud State University's nursing program was recently featured on #OurSCSU.
WCHA COMMISSIONER'S CORNER
Redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) was featured on the most recent installment of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Commissioner's Corner podcast series on Nov. 5. In the series, WCHA Commissioner Michelle McAteer sits down one-on-one with extraordinary student-athletes from across the league to discuss real-life topics, hockey, and everything in between. You can watch the video on the WCHA Hockey YouTube page.
WCHA WEEKLY HONORS
Junior forward Alice Sauriol (Sherbrooke, Quebec) was the most recent Husky to earn Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) weekly honors after being tabbed as the league's Forward of the Week on Oct. 20. She is the third Husky to win WCHA weekly honors this season, following freshman forward Maria Mikaelyan (Moscow, Russia) who earned Rookie of the Week honors on Oct. 13 and sophomore defender Siiri Yrjölä (Vantaa, Finland), who was named Defender of the Week on Sept. 22.
2025-26 WCHA WEEKLY HONORS
Defender of the Week Forward of the Week
- Alice Sauriol (Oct. 20)
- Maria Mikaelyan (Oct. 13)
Graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) is back for her final year of collegiate eligibility after a redshirt season in 2024-25. In her first start between the pipes in since March 2, 2024 (567 days) on Sept. 20, she earned her 10th career shutout as a Husky to tie former teammate Sanni Ahola (2020-25) for the most career shutouts in program history.
This summer, Chobak was invited to the USA Hockey National Goaltender Camp and National Festival and was a U.S. Collegiate Select Team selection. In 2023-24, she went 7-11-1 over 17 starts and established new program records for single season save percentage (.939) and goals against average (1.64) while recording four shutouts. Chobak currently owns seven season top 10 marks and four career top 10 spots in the record book. In her four-year career, she owns a 28-29-3 record with a 2.22 GAA, a .923 SV% and 13 shutouts over 59 starts/69 appearances.
NEW LEADER OF THE PACK
Former assistant coach, Mira Jalosuo (MEER-ah YAH-loh-SUE-oh) was named the seventh head coach of the St. Cloud State Women's Hockey team on June 27, 2025. She is just the second woman to lead the Huskies during the program's 27-year history, following in the footsteps of Kerry Brodt Wethington, who was the programs first head coach from 1998-99 to 2001-02.
Jalosuo picked up her first win as the Huskies bench boss in her first game, a 5-0 win over Lindenwood (Mo.) on September 19. She earned her first series sweep the next day after SCSU took down the Lions 5-0 for the second straight game. It was the first time in program history that a team posted back-to-back shutouts to open a season and the fourth season in a row that the Huskies opened their season with a series sweep.
A highly decorated member of Finland's National Team, the two-time Olympian and five-time World Championships Bronze medalist spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Frost (formerly PWHL Minnesota), helping the franchise win back-to-back PWHL Walter Cups in each of the first two seasons of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).
ALL-FEMALE COACHING STAFF
For the first time in program history, the Huskies have an all-female coaching staff. SCSU is one of two programs in the WCHA and one of six programs in all of NCAA DI Women's Hockey with an all-female staff.
O CAPTAINS! OUR CAPTAINS!
St. Cloud State named four captains ahead of the 2025-26 season on Friday. Graduate student defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) with be the fifth Husky to wear the "C" as captain for two seasons, while redshirt junior defender Regan Bulger (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories), graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) and redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) will be alternate captains and wear a letter for the first time in their career.
Wolfe, who served as a co-captain in 2024-25 and an alternate captain in 2023-24, becomes just the second Husky to wear a letter in three seasons after Katy Battis (C – 1999-2000, A – 2001-02, 2002-03).
WCHA PRESEASON COACHES POLL
St. Cloud State Women's Hockey was selected to finish fifth in the 2025-26 Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Preseason Coaches' Poll, as announced by the league office on Sept. 8. The Huskies are coming off their third fifth place conference finish in a row and tied for the second most conference points in program history a season ago.
SCSU received 24 points overall in the coaches' poll and were selected to finish behind Wisconsin (49 points, seven first-place votes), Minnesota (40 points, one first-place vote) Ohio State (40 points), and Minnesota Duluth (31 points). Rounding out the poll was St. Thomas (17 points), Minnesota State (16 points) and Bemidji State (seven points).
2025-26 WCHA Preseason Coaches' Poll
Pl. Team (1st Place Votes) Points
1. Wisconsin (7) 49
t2. Minnesota (1) 40
t2. Ohio State 40
4. Minnesota Duluth 31
5. St. Cloud State 24
6. St. Thomas 17
7. Minnesota State 16
8. Bemidji State 7
*First-place votes are in parentheses (Coaches could not vote for their own team)
JOJO REPRESENTS THE STARS AND STRIPES AT THE 2025 COLLEGIATE SELECT SERIES
Graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) helped lead the U.S. Collegiate Select Team to a 1-1-1-0 record in the three-game series against Canada in the 2025 Collegiate Select Series in August at the Lake Placid Olympic Center in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The graduate student goaltender was the third active SCSU player and first netminder to be named to the Collegiate Select Team (*formerly known as the U22 Team) twice in her career. Chobak and former co-captain Emma Gentry became the fourth and fifth Huskies to make the team back in 2023 before Gentry was a back-to-back pick in 2024. Prior to that, goaltender Emma Polusny was the last Husky to make the team in 2019 and before that, defender Brittni Kuyper made back-to-back U22 squads in 2006 and 2007 while forward Holly Roberts joined Kuyper at the 2007 U22 Series.
St. Cloud State Huskies at the U.S. Collegiate Select Series
Year Name Pos.
2025 JOJO CHOBAK G
2024 Emma Gentry F
2023 Emma Gentry F
2023 JOJO CHOBAK G
2019 Emma Polusny G
2007 Holly Roberts F
2007 Brittni Kuyper D
2006 Brittni Kuyper D
THANK YOU, BRIAN
Former head coach Brian Idalski was named the first-ever head coach of Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) expansion team, PWHL Vancouver on June 23.
The 2022-23 U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) National Coach of the Year departed St. Cloud after three seasons in which he helped turn the program around, bringing the Huskies back into national prominence. Under Idalski, SCSU went 50-50-9 and recorded three of its eight highest single season win totals in program history and set numerous other individual and team records.
In 2024-25, Idalski became just the second coach in program history to amass 50 wins and was the first to do so in three seasons or less. He also became the first coach in program history to beat Minnesota on the road (0-60-2 prior) and was just the second coach to post three consecutive 15+ win seasons.
For all the latest on St. Cloud State Women's Hockey, stay tuned to SCSUHuskies.com and follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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Postgame Press Conference | SCSU vs Minnesota Duluth (10/31/2025)
Saturday, November 01
