1995 Finland Summer Tour ======================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Article from Richard Hungerford (Sept 7, 95) Subject: Team USA WOMEN: Finland tour - summer 1995 Here is a list of players who went on the recent national team tour to Finland. I talked with Northeastern Men's coach Ben Smith, who was head coach for this tour, and he related that TUSAW played Team Finland Women four games. TUSAW won all four matches: 6-0 ; 4-2 ; 13-1 ; 2-0. The Finnnish team was without the super Riika Niemanen, but had many of its big guns on the team (Tarijokki, etc). There was no checking during these games, so the unfortunate attempt to bring back checking in the women's game has not gone through yet. I am trying to get a complete list of players who attended the Lake Placid camp prior to the Finland tour from USA Hockey. Player WWC Hometown School Grad Currently GOALIES: Kelly Dyer x Boston, MA Northeastern 90 ??? Erin Whitten y Glens Falls, NY UNH 93 ??? DEFENDERS: Chris Bailey z Marcellus, NY Providence 94 Asst-PC Angela Ruggiero Choate-RH Colleen Coyne y Teaticket, MA UNH 93 Kelly O'Leary x N.Providence, RI Providence 90 St Gallen Tara Monsey Concord, NH high school Vicki Movsessian z Lexington, MA Providence 94 Asst-NU FORWARDS: Cammi Granato x Downers Grove, IL Providence 93 Concordia Sandra Whyte y Saugus, MA Harvard 92 ??? Alana Blahoski St. Paul, MN Providence 96 (I love this line!) Karyn Bye y River Falls, WI UNH 93 Concordia Lisa Brown x W.Bloomfield, MI Providence 90 Coach-Pri Jeanine Sobek x Coon Rapids, MN Northeastern 94 Toronto RW (K. Bye was the team captain - (excellent choice)) Meaghan Sittler Buffalo, NY Colby 98 Shelly Looney y Trenton, MI Northeastern 94 ??? Sue Merz x Greenwich, CT UNH 94 Lyss Beth Beagan x Falmouth, MA Providence 92 Concordia Steph O'Sullivan z Dorcester, MA Providence 95 ??? AJ Mleczko New Canaan, CT Harvard 97 Barbara Gordon Glendale, CA Colby 97 (B. Gordon filled in for B. Beagan after an injury) v = played on 1992 x = played on 1990, 1992 & 1994 y = played on 1992 & 1994 z = played on 1994 Head Coach: Ben Smith (Northeastern University) Asst Coach: Tim Gerrish _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (2) Information from Kristiina Korve in Finland (Sept 14, 95) Here are the results of the Team USA exhabition tournament in Finland: Place Finland USA Date Jyvaskyla 0 - 6 August 30, 1995 Vierumaki 2 - 4 August 31, 1995 Heinola 1 - 13 September 2, 1995 Vierumaki 0 - 2 September 3, 1995 Jorma Valtonen, the head coach of Finland, said that this tournament was a good lesson to Finland that how far behind we really are comparing to USA or Canada. "On the other hand, the last game showed, too, that we can play as well", he added. Many women of our team spent the summer playing Finnish baseball, so they didn't give hockey training the kind of attention it would have needed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (3) an article from the women-in-hockey mailing list Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:36:40 -0400 (EDT) From: paprockr@VTC.TACOM.Army.Mil (Rhonda Paprocki) To: women-in-hockey@plaidworks.com Subject: USA 1995 Women's select Team From the AMERICAN HOCKEY MAGAZINE, Oct 1995 (The official publication of USA Hockey, Inc.) (Typos are mine--Rhonda) 1995 UNITED STATES WOMEN'S SELECT TEAM No. Name Pos Hometown -- ------------------- --- --------------- 1 Kelly Dyer G Boston, Mass 3 Lisa Brown-Miller F Skillman, NJ 4 Angela Ruggiero D Simi Valley, CA 5 Tara Mounsey D Concord, NH 6 Karyn Bye F River Falls, WI 7 Colleen Coyne D Falmouth, Mass 8 Sue Merz F Greenwich, Conn 9 Sandra Whyte F Saugus, Mass 10 Alana Blahoski F St. Paul, Minn 11 A.J. Mleczko F New Canaan, Conn 12 Barbara Gordon F Cambridge, Mass 14 Vicki Movsessian D Lexington, Mass 15 Shelley Looney F Trenton, Mich 16 Meaghan Sittler F E. Amherst, NY 17 Jeanine Sobek F Coon Rapids, Minn 20 Beth Beagan F Sandwich, Mass 21 Cammi Granato F Downers Grove, Ill 23 Kelly O'Leary D Auburn, Mass 24 Chris Bailey D Marietta, NY 28 Stephanie O'Sullivan F Dorchester, Mass 30 Erin Whitten G Glens Falls, NY Head Coach: Ben Smith, Boston, Mass (head coach of men's ice hockey team at Northeastern Univ) Assistant Coach: Julie Andeberhan, Ithaca, NY Assistant Coach: Tim Gerrish, Saranac Lake, NY Equipment Manager: Bob Webster, Littleton, CO Team Doctor: Laura Timmerman, Davis, CA Athletic Trainer: Sue Snouse, Lake Placid, NY Team Leader: Bob Allen, Lake Placid, NY -----------------------------------------------------------------------