Friday, November 28
MedStar Capitals Iceplex • Washington, D.C.
Noon
St. Cloud State
vs
#12 Colgate (N.Y.)
Photo by: Kayden Kircher
No. 14 St. Cloud State Women’s Hockey Set for Pair of Nonconference Games in Washington, D.C.
11/27/2025 4:37:00 PM | Women's Hockey
Huskies head to the nation’s capital for D1 in DC event, play No. 12 Colgate Friday, No. 10 Clarkson Saturday
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – No. 14 St. Cloud State Women's Hockey (5-10-1, 2-9-1 Western Collegiate Hockey Association) wraps up its nonconference schedule this weekend in the nation's capital for the D1 in DC event against No. 12 Colgate (8-7-1, 4-3-1 ECAC) on Friday and No. 10 Clarkson (9-5-1, 5-2-1 ECAC) on Saturday. Puck drops from the MedStar Capitals Iceplex in Washington, D.C. are scheduled for noon CT/1 p.m. ET on Friday and 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET on Saturday.
SERIES NOTES
FOLLOW THE HUSKIES
Both games will be broadcast live for free on the Junior Women's Hockey League YouTube page.
Game 17 – vs. #12 Colgate (MedStar Capitals Iceplex // Washington, D.C.) – Friday, Nov. 28 / Noon CT/1 p.m. ET / Watch (YouTube)
Game 18 – vs. #10 Clarkson (MedStar Capitals Iceplex // Washington, D.C.) – Saturday, Nov. 29 / 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET / Watch (YouTube)
Links to each coverage option are available on the SCSU Women's Hockey schedule page.
SERIES HISTORY
SCSU trails the all-time series against Colgate, 1-2-1. The Huskies matchup against Clarkson will be the first between the two programs.
LET'S GO POLLING
The Huskies dropped to No. 14 in both the U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Poll and the USA Hockey Poll. St. Cloud State is one of six WCHA programs featured in the rankings, with one additional club receiving votes. Colgate is No. 12 in both polls and Clarkson is No. 10 in both polls.
LAST TIME OUT
Then-No. 10 SCSU went 1-1-0 on the road against Bemidji State. The Huskies shut out BSU 4-0 in game one before falling to the Beavers in the series finale 6-5 in overtime.
Notes from the games
GAME 15 - 4-0 win @ Bemidji State (11-21-25)
Friday, Nov. 28
No. 14 St. Cloud State vs No. 12 Colgate (D1 in DC; Washington, D.C.) - Noon
Dartmouth at No. 15 Minnesota State - 2 PM
No. 2 Ohio State vs No. 10 Clarkson (D1 in DC; Washington, D.C.) - 3 PM
Bemidji State at Lindenwood - 4 PM
Saturday, Nov. 29
No. 14 St. Cloud State vs No. 12 Colgate (D1 in DC; Washington, D.C.) - 1 PM
Bemidji State at Lindenwood - 1 PM
Dartmouth at No. 15 Minnesota State - 1 PM
No. 1 Wisconsin vs (RV) Mercyhurst (SMASHVILLE Showcase; Nashville, Tenn.) - 3 PM
No. 2 Ohio State vs No. 12 Colgate (D1 in DC; Washington, D.C.) - 4 PM
Sunday, Nov. 30
No. 1 Wisconsin vs Stonehill (SMASHVILLE Showcase; Nashville, Tenn.) - Noon
*WCHA Game
** Rankings are USCHO/USA Hockey
***All times in CT
PWHL HUSKIES
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.
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
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 2.25 GAA, a .922 SV% and 13 shutouts over 60 starts/70 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 live for free on the Junior Women's Hockey League YouTube page.
Game 17 – vs. #12 Colgate (MedStar Capitals Iceplex // Washington, D.C.) – Friday, Nov. 28 / Noon CT/1 p.m. ET / Watch (YouTube)
Game 18 – vs. #10 Clarkson (MedStar Capitals Iceplex // Washington, D.C.) – Saturday, Nov. 29 / 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET / Watch (YouTube)
Links to each coverage option are available on the SCSU Women's Hockey schedule page.
SERIES HISTORY
SCSU trails the all-time series against Colgate, 1-2-1. The Huskies matchup against Clarkson will be the first between the two programs.
LET'S GO POLLING
The Huskies dropped to No. 14 in both the U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Poll and the USA Hockey Poll. St. Cloud State is one of six WCHA programs featured in the rankings, with one additional club receiving votes. Colgate is No. 12 in both polls and Clarkson is No. 10 in both polls.
LAST TIME OUT
Then-No. 10 SCSU went 1-1-0 on the road against Bemidji State. The Huskies shut out BSU 4-0 in game one before falling to the Beavers in the series finale 6-5 in overtime.
Notes from the games
GAME 15 - 4-0 win @ Bemidji State (11-21-25)
- SCSU improved to 57-51-10 all-time against Bemidji State, extending its win streak against the Beavers to 13 games dating back to January 2022. The Huskies improved to 27-26-4 all time against BSU in Bemdiji.
- The Huskies moved to 2-4-0 on the road this season.
- SCSU went 4-for-4 on the penalty kill and 0-for-1 on the power play. For the season, SCSU is 38-for-51 (74.5%) on the penalty kill and 5-for-36 on the power play (13.9%).
- The Huskies out-shot BSU, 26-21 and out-blocked Bemidji State 15-7. The Beavers won 62.7% of the faceoffs.
- SCSU earned its first win since Oct. 17 and picked up points in back-to-back games for the first time since late September. The Huskies posted their first shutout since the second game of the season on Sept. 20.
- Freshman forward Payton Remick (Roseau, Minn.). led the team in points with three, scoring two of the Huskies four goals and adding an assist on another. She was named the game's No. 1 star and recorded the first multi-goal/point game of her young career. She skated to a career-best +3 mark and became the third Husky to score 2+ goals in a game this season and the fourth to tally 3+ points in a game. Remick doubled her season/career point total from three to six.
- Sophomore goaltender Emilia Kyrrkö (Nokia, Finland) notched a 21-save shutout and was named the game's No. 2 star. She posted her second shutout of the season in just her fifth star. It was the fifth shutout of her career (three have come against Bemidji State) and her 10th career win.
- Senior forward Avery Farrell (Rogers, Minn.) posted the fifth two-assist game of her career and ninth multi-point game. She was the only other Husky with multiple points after recording two assists.
- Freshman forward Reese Strauts (Brandon, Wis.) scored her first collegiate goal which was also her first career point. She skated to a career-best +2 mark.
- Junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) scored her fifth of the season.
- Graduate defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) recorded an assist for her 10th point of the season.
- Freshman defender Maélie Pion (Sherbrooke, Quebec) posted her fifth assist of the season and skated to a +2 mark, tying her career high.
- Sophomore defender Marie Moran (Lakeville, Minn.) recorded a career-high four shots on goal.
- SCSU moved to 57-52-10 all-time against Bemidji State and had its 13-game win streak snapped that began in January 2022. The Huskies moved to 27-27-4 all time against BSU in Bemdiji.
- The Huskies moved to 2-5-0 on the road this season.
- SCSU tied its season high for goals in a game with five but conceded its high single game goal total as well.
- SCSU went 3-for-4 on the penalty kill and 0-for-3 on the power play. For the season, SCSU is 41-for-55 (74.5%) on the penalty kill and 5-for-39 on the power play (12.8%).
- The Huskies out-shot BSU, 43-22 and the Beavers out-blocked SCSU 16-7. Each team won 50.0% of the faceoffs.
- Junior forward Alice Sauriol (Sherbrooke, Quebec) was one of two Huskies with three points. She notched one goal and two assists and was one of two SCSU skaters to finish the game +2. Sauriol posted her fourth career three-point game and second of the season. She scored her fifth goal of the season, surpassed 10 points this season and 30 assists for her career.
- Graduate defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) finished the game with three points (1 goal, 2 assists) and a +1 mark. She was named one of the WCHA Brew Pub 3 Stars of the Night. She recorded her third career three-point game and second of the season. She scored her first career short-handed goal and the Huskies first shorty of the season. She now has 10 assists on the season and 40 in her career. Her goal was the 10th of her career, and she now has 50 career points. She leads the team in assists (10), points (13) and +/- (+9).
- Junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) tied her career high for points in a game with two. Zimmermann was the third and final Husky with multiple points, after contributing a goal and an assist.
- Junior forward Payton Holloway (Tomah, Wis.) scored a goal for her 10th career point.
Friday, Nov. 28
No. 14 St. Cloud State vs No. 12 Colgate (D1 in DC; Washington, D.C.) - Noon
Dartmouth at No. 15 Minnesota State - 2 PM
No. 2 Ohio State vs No. 10 Clarkson (D1 in DC; Washington, D.C.) - 3 PM
Bemidji State at Lindenwood - 4 PM
Saturday, Nov. 29
No. 14 St. Cloud State vs No. 12 Colgate (D1 in DC; Washington, D.C.) - 1 PM
Bemidji State at Lindenwood - 1 PM
Dartmouth at No. 15 Minnesota State - 1 PM
No. 1 Wisconsin vs (RV) Mercyhurst (SMASHVILLE Showcase; Nashville, Tenn.) - 3 PM
No. 2 Ohio State vs No. 12 Colgate (D1 in DC; Washington, D.C.) - 4 PM
Sunday, Nov. 30
No. 1 Wisconsin vs Stonehill (SMASHVILLE Showcase; Nashville, Tenn.) - Noon
*WCHA Game
** Rankings are USCHO/USA Hockey
***All times in CT
PWHL HUSKIES
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.
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
- Siiri Yrjölä (Sept. 22)
- 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 2.25 GAA, a .922 SV% and 13 shutouts over 60 starts/70 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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