(RV) St. Cloud State Women’s Hockey Finishes Regular Season at No. 1 Wisconsin

Saturday, February 21

LaBahn Arena • Madison, Wis.

1 p.m.

St. Cloud State

#1 Wisconsin

Payton Holloway vs. Bemidji State 2-14-26

Photo by: Kayden Kircher

(RV) St. Cloud State Women’s Hockey Finishes Regular Season at No. 1 Wisconsin

2/20/2026 4:03:00 PM | Women's Hockey

Series Notes

Huskies travel to Madison and LaBahn Arena for Saturday/Sunday series

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – (RV) St. Cloud State Women's Hockey (11-19-2, 7-17-2 Western Collegiate Hockey Association) travels to Madison, Wis. to play No. 1 Wisconsin (27-3-2, 21-3-2 WCHA) for its final regular season series of the season. Puck drops from LaBahn Arena are scheduled for 1 p.m. (Saturday) and 11 a.m. (Sunday).

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 97.5 FM RadioX with KVSC talent Brian Moos on the call. Live stats will be provided by Wisconsin.

Game 33 – @ #1 Wisconsin (LaBahn Arena // Madison, Wis.) – Saturday, Feb. 21 / 1 p.m. / Watch ($ - B1G+) / Live stats / Listen (97.5 FM RadioX)
Game 34 – @ #1 Wisconsin (LaBahn Arena // Madison, Wis.) – Sunday, Feb. 22 / 11 a.m. / Watch ($ - B1G+) / Live stats / Listen (97.5 FM RadioX)

Links to each coverage option can also be found on the St. Cloud State Women's Hockey game day central or schedule page.

SERIES HISTORY
SCSU trails the all-time series against the Badgers, 9-100-5, but are 0-3-2 in the last five games against Wisconsin. The Huskies are 4-52-1 all time against UW in Madison and went 0-1-1 against the Badgers in their series in November at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center, falling 5-1 in game one before skating to a 4-4 tie in game two. Wisconsin went on to win the shootout 2-1 to earn the extra WCHA point.

LET'S GO POLLING
The Huskies are receiving votes in the U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Poll and the USA Hockey Poll. Wisconsin is ranked No. 1 in both polls. The WCHA has five programs featured in the rankings, with two additional clubs receiving votes.

ZIMMY EARNS BRONZE, KLUGE SHINES IN OLYPIC DEBUT / HUSKIES AT MILANO CORTINA 2026 RECAP
St. Cloud State Women's Hockey redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) capped off her second Olympics appearance by winning a bronze medal as Team Switzerland took down Sweden 2-1 in overtime at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena in Milan on Feb. 19. She became just the second active Husky and fifth overall in program history to win an Olympic medal.

The Huskies had a program record eight representatives (four current players and four alumnae) at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Milano Cortina, doubling the previous record of four in 2022. The 10-team tournament ran from February 5-19 in Milan, Italy. Seven of the eight Huskies saw action in the games which is also a new program record.

The largest contingent of Huskies – two current players and two alumnae, suited up for Team Finland. Sophomore goaltender Emilia Kyrkkö (Nokia) and sophomore defender Siiri Yrjölä (Vantaa) were joined by former goaltender Sanni Ahola (Helsinki), who played for the Huskies from 2020-25 and is currently in her rookie season with the Professional Women's Hockey League's (PWHL) Ottawa Charge and former alternate captain, forward Jenniina Nylund (Pietarsaari) who wore the red and black from 2018-23 and is in her third season with Brynäs IF in Sweden.

Nylund skated in all five games and recorded her first-ever Olympic assists and second career Olympic point in Finland's 3-1 win over Switzerland. She became one of four players in program history to be a multi-time Olympian. Ahola made her Olympic debut, starting four games for Suomi. She earned her first-ever Olympic win after saving 14-of-15 shots (.933 save percentage) in Finland's 3-1 win over Switzerland in the opening round and made 44 saves against Team USA. Yrjölä also made her Olympic debut and skated in all five games for the Finns. Kyrrkö made her Olympic team debut and dressed for two games but did not appear in any either of them.

Senior forward Svenja Voigt (Cologne) and former alternate captain, forward Laura Kluge (Berlin) who wore a Huskies sweater from 2017-21 and is in her first season with the PWHL's Boston Fleet both made their Olympic debuts for Team Germany. Additionally, Kluge served as an alternate captain for the tournament.

Kluge was dominant in her Olympics debut, leading the team in goals (three), assists (four), points (seven) and +/- (+6). Additionally, among all skaters in the Olympics, she ranked tied for No. 4 in goals, No. 7 in points, No. 9 in assists and No. 13 in +/- while playing in two less games than everyone else in front of her. She notched four points (1g, 3a) in Germany's 5-2 win over Japan for her first Olympic goal/assists/points, recorded two points (1g, 1a) including the game-winning goal in Germany's 2-1 win over Italy and scored Germany's first goal in its 2-1 overtime win over France. She became the first Husky to tally more than one point in a single Olympics. Voigt skated in all five games but did not record a point.

Zimmermann skated for the bronze medalists, Team Switzerland, and former alternate captain forward Klára Hymlárová (Opava), who skated for the Huskies from 2019-24 and is now in her second season with the PWHL's Minnesota Frost played for Team Czechia.

Zimmermann skated in all seven games for the Swiss and scored her first Olympic goal when Switzerland beat Czechia in a shootout in its first game of the opening round. It was her first Olympic point. She became just the second active player and fifth overall in program history to win an Olympic medal and one of four players to be a multi-time Olympian. Hymlárová skated in all five games for Czechia. She recorded her first-ever Olympic assist and second career Olympic point in Czechia's 4-3 shootout loss to Switzerland. In the shootout, she converted one of her two attempts. She became just one of four players in program history to be a multi-time Olympian.

Hymlárová, Nylund and Zimmermann became the second, third and fourth Huskies to be named to multiple Olympic rosters/appear in multiple Olympics. In total, 11 Huskies will have made 15 appearances on Olympic rosters. The 2026 octet joins fellow Husky Olympians Janine Alder (Team Switzerland - 2014 Sochi, 2018 PyeongChang), Josefin Pettersson (Team Sweden - 2002 Salt Lake City), Sofianna Sundelin (Team Finland - 2022 Beijing) and the trio from 2022 who are returning to the 2026 games.

In 2022, Nylund became the program's first-ever active player to earn an Olympic medal, while the three other previous medal winners, Pettersson (2002), Alder (2014) and Sundelin (2022), did so before joining the Huskies.

WCHA WEEKLY/MONTHLY HONORS
St. Cloud State Women's Hockey junior forward Alice Sauriol (Sherbrooke, Quebec) and redshirt sophomore defender Sydney Bryant (Traverse City, Mich.) earned Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) weekly honors, as announced by the league office on Feb. 16. Sauriol was named the Forward of the Week after tallying eight points (2 goals, 6 assists) while Bryant was named Defender of the Week after a three-point weekend in SCSU's home sweep of Bemidji State.

The weekly honor was the third career honor and second this season for Sauriol, who was named Forward of the Week earlier this season on Oct. 20 and the WCHA Rookie of the Week on Oct. 19, 2023. It was the first career weekly honor for Bryant, as well as the seventh and eighth weekly honors for the Huskies this season.

Sauriol became the third Husky to win multiple weekly honors from the conference after sophomore goaltender Emilia Kyrkkö (Nokia, Finland), who was named Goaltender of the Week on Dec. 1 and Jan. 19 and freshman forward Maria Mikaelyan (Moscow, Russia), who was named WCHA Rookie of the Week on Oct. 13 and Dec. 8. The Huskies have won all four conference weekly honors (forward, defender, goaltender and rookie) at least once. In addition to Bryant, Kyrkkö, Mikaelyan and Sauriol, sophomore defender Siiri Yrjölä (Vantaa, Finland) was named Defender of the Week on Sept. 22.

2025-26 WCHA MONTHLY/WEEKLY HONORS
Rookie of the Month

Maria Mikaelyan (1x, December)

Defender of the Week

Sydney Bryant (1x, Feb. 16)
Siiri Yrjölä (1x, Sept. 22)

Forward of the Week

Alice Sauriol (2x, Oct. 20 | Feb. 16)

Goaltender of the Week

Emilia Kyrkkö (2x, Dec. 1 | Jan. 19)

Rookie of the Week

Maria Mikaelyan (2x, Oct. 13 | Dec. 8)

RECORD-BREAKING WEEKEND
In SCSU's series opening 6-2 win over Bemidji State, junior forward Alice Sauriol posted a career-high five points (two goals, three assists) including a school record four points (one goal, three assists) in the second period. Additionally, her three assists in the period tied the program record for assists in a period. It was the Huskies second three-assist game of the season, the first 5-point performance by a Husky since Holly Roberts had six in 2010 and the most points in a game since Taylor Lind and Jenniina Nylund each had four-point performances in 2022-23.

In Saturday's 5-0 shutout win against Bemidji State, graduate goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) posted a 24-save shutout performance, her 11^th as a Husky which broke her tie with former teammate Sanni Ahola (2020-25) for the most career shutouts in program history.

ACADEMIC WEAPONS
The WCHA announced its All-Academic Team (Feb. 17) and Scholar-Athlete Award winners (Feb. 19) and SCSU had 17 players named to the All-Academic Team, which was the second most honorees among conference schools and is the second most in program history, only trailing last year's team that had 20 and 11 players named Scholar-Athletes which was tied for the most the Scholar-Athletes the Huskies have had since the 2018-19 team had 13 – there were also 11 in 2024-25.

WCHA All-Academic Team
Jojo Chobak (three times with SCSU, once with UMD) and Grace Wolfe are four-time selections, Regan Bulger, Svenja Voigt and Laura Zimmermann are three-time honorees, Sydney Bryant, Avery Farrell, Payton Holloway (once with SCSU, once with UMD), Paige Hoogedam, Myah Krueger, Marie Moran, Sofianna Sundelin and Alice Sauriol are two-time picks while Sidney Jackel, Emilia Kyrkkö, Hali Lawrence and Siiri Yrjölä were all first-time selections.

WCHA Scholar Athletes
Chobak (three times with SCSU, once with UMD) is a four-time selection, Bulger, Voigt and Wolfe are three-time honorees, Bryant, Farrell and Sauriol are two-time picks, while Jackel, Lawrence, Moran and Zimmermann are all first-time selections.

LAST TIME OUT
(RV) SCSU swept Bemidji State in its final home series of the season, winning game one 6-2 before shutting out the Beavers 5-0 in the series finale.

Notes from the games
GAME 31 - 6-2 win vs. Bemidji State (2-13-26)

SCSU improved to 58-52-10 all-time against the Beavers and 9-1 in the 10 games against BSU. The Huskies moved to 30-24-6 all time against Bemidji State at home and improved to 2-1-0 against the Beavers this season.
The Huskies moved to 5-9-1 in home games this season.
SCSU scored 6+ goals for the first time this season and the first time since the second game of the 2024-25 season (Sept. 22, 2024).
The Huskies went 0-for-1 on the penalty kill and 0-for-2 on the power play. For the season, SCSU is 69-for-92 (75.0%) on the penalty kill and 13-for-82 on the power play (15.9%).
SCSU led the game in shots (37-27) and won 60.7% of the faceoffs. The Beavers out blocked the Huskies 15-5.
Junior forward Alice Sauriol (Sherbrooke, Quebec) recorded five points (two goals, three assists), setting school records for points (four) and assists (three – tie) in a period. She was +5 in the game, named the game's No. 1 Star and one of the WCHA 3 Stars of the Night. Her two goals, three assists, five points and +5 mark were all new single game career highs. Her four-point period was a new program record and her three assists in the period tied the program record. It was her third multi-goal game of the season, her third multi-assist game of the season and her seventh multi-point game of the season. She surpassed 20 career goals, 20 season points and ended the game with 15 assists this season and 60 career points.
Freshman forward Julianne Labbé (Wendake, Quebec) scored two goals on two shots and was a +4. She recorded her second career multi-point game, first ever multi-goal game and skated to a career best +4 mark.
Redshirt sophomore defender Sydney Bryant (Traverse City, Mich.) (1g, 1a) and senior forward Avery Farrell (Rogers, Minn.) (2a) also posted 2+ points. Bryant was +4 and Farrell was +1. Bryant notched her first career multi-point game and skated to a career-high +5 mark. Farrell's assists pushed her career points total to 70.
Graduate goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) made 25 saves on 27 shots (.926 save percentage). She recorded 25+ saves for the eighth consecutive game and 14^th time this season. The win was the 30^th of her career.
Junior forward Sofianna Sundelin (Ulvila, Finland) tied her career-best +/- mark (+3). Her goal was her team-leading 15^th of the season and she went 10-and-3 on the faceoff dot, winning double-digit draws for the 11^th time this season and first time in seven games. Her 15 goals this season are the most by a Husky since former teammate Klára Hymlárová scored 17 in 2022-23 and her 24 points are the most since Hymlárová had 24 in 2023-24.
Freshman defender Maélie Pion (Sherbrooke, Quebec) skated to a career-best +3 mark. Her assist was her 10^th point of the season, becoming the third blueliner and fourth freshman to reach double digit points this season.
Graduate defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) tied her career best +/- mark (+3). She played in her 148^th career game taking sole possession of fifth most in program history.
Freshman defender Hannele Tarkiainen (Pieksämäki, Finland) skated to a career-best +2 mark.
Freshman forward Lily Erickson (Roseau, Minn.) skated to a career-best +1 mark.

GAME 32 - 5-0 win vs. Bemidji State (2-14-26)

SCSU improved to 59-52-10 all-time against the Beavers and 9-1 in the 10 games against BSU. The Huskies moved to 31-24-6 all time against Bemidji State at home and improved to 3-1-0 against the Beavers this season.
The Huskies moved to 6-9-1 in home games this season.
SCSU scored 5+ goals in back-to-back games for the first time since the opening series against Lindenwood (Sept. 19-20) and for the first time in conference play since Feb. 23-24, 2024, at Bemidji State.
The Huskies earned its second series sweep of the season after opening the series with a sweep of Lindenwood. It was the Huskies first conference series sweep since Jan. 17-18, 2025, against Bemidji State.
SCSU went 4-for-4 on the penalty kill and 1-for-3 on the power play. For the season, SCSU is 73-for-96 (76.0%) on the penalty kill and 14-for-85 on the power play (16.5%).
The Huskies led the game in shots (34-274) and blocked shots (12-3). The Beavers won 54.7% of the faceoffs.
Chobak was named the game's No. 1 star after a 24-save shutout performance and breaking the program record for most career shutouts will 11. She posted her 11^th shutout as a Husky to break her tie for the program record with former teammate Sanni Ahola (2020-25). It was her 14^th career shutout and second this season. Chobak picked up her fifth win of the season after stopping 24+ shots for the 16^th consecutive game and ninth straight game.
Sauriol was named the game's No. 2 star and one of the WCHA 3 Stars of the Day after a three-assist performance. She skated to a +2 mark. Sauriol notched three assists for the second consecutive game and the third time in her career. It was her fourth multi-assist and eighth multi-point game of the season. She surpassed 25 points this season and 40 career assists. She took the team lead in points (26) and extended her lead in assists (18).
Redshirt freshman forward Myah Krueger (Stillwater, Minn.) was named the game's No. 3 star after scoring her first career NCAA goal/point. She also tied her career best +/- mark (+1).
Freshman defender Sydney Lamb (Lombard, Ill.) notched a multi-point performance (1g, 1a). It was her third multi-point game of the season/her career.
Graduate defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) skated in her 149^th career game, moving into a three-way tie for the third most in program history with Caitlin Hogan (2006-10) and Holly Roberts (2006-10). She scored her first power play goal of the season and the third of her career. It was her 55^th career point.
Labbé scored her third goal of the weekend.
Farrell notched her 40^th career assist became just the third Husky to reach 20 points this season.
Freshman forward Payton Remick (Roseau, Minn.) posted her fifth assist of the season.
Freshman forward Reese Strauts (Brandon, Wis.) recorded her first NCAA assist.

THIS WEEK IN THE WCHA
Friday, Feb. 20
No. 10 Minnesota Duluth at No. 3 Minnesota* - 2 PM - FOX9+
No. 2 Ohio State at Bemidji State* - 6 PM
No. 15 Minnesota State at (RV) St. Thomas* - 6 PM

Saturday, Feb. 21
(RV) St. Cloud State at No. 1 Wisconsin* - 1 PM
No. 10 Minnesota Duluth at No. 3 Minnesota* - 2 PM
No. 2 Ohio State at Bemidji State* - 2 PM - FOX9+
No. 15 Minnesota State at (RV) St. Thomas* - 3 PM

Sunday, Feb. 22
(RV) St. Cloud State at No. 1 Wisconsin* - 11 AM

*WCHA Game
** Rankings are USCHO/USA Hockey
***All times in CT

SENIOR DAY
On Feb. 5, the Huskies honored four of its five seniors for their contributions to Husky Hockey after the game. The program recognized goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.), forward Avery Farrell, goaltender Hali Lawrence (Calgary, Alberta) and defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.). Forward Svenja Voigt (Cologne, Germany) was honored on Jan. 23 prior to her departure for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

ALL-STAR ACH
St. Cloud State Women's Hockey assistant coach Emily Ach was named a Mentorship Coach for the 2026 American Hockey League (AHL) All-Star Classic presented by BMO, as announced by the organization on Jan. 30. Ach was behind the bench when the best players in the AHL convened at the BMO Center in Rockford, Ill. Feb. 10-11. for the AHL All-Star Skills Competition and the AHL All-Star Challenge.

Ach was one of four NHL Coaches' Association (NHLCA) program members and one of two NHLCA Female Coaches Program members who were invited to participate in the 2026 AHL All-Star Classic as mentorship coaches.

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.

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. Jalosuo earned her first ranked win in her third game when SCSU took down No. 12/13 UConn at the Toscano Family Ice Forum in Storrs, Conn. and her first WCHA win on Oct. 17 with a 4-3 overtime win over (RV) St. Thomas.

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).

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 was 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 have won the first two league championships. Ahola was the 37^th 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 11^th 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.

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