NOTES – No. 6 Hawkeyes Set for two Video games at Grant – College of Iowa Athletics

THIS WEEK
The sixth-ranked College of Iowa area hockey workforce continues its house slate this weekend, internet hosting two video games at Grant Area. The Hawkeyes host Windfall at 2 p.m. (CT) on Friday for Fan Appreciation Day and No. 22 Massachusetts on Sunday at 1 p.m. for Children’ Day. Admission is free.

FOLLOW LIVE
• Friday and Sunday’s recreation can be dwell streamed on B1G+.
• Iowa area hockey followers can observe all contests by way of dwell stats on hawkeyesports.com. Sport updates are additionally out there on Twitter/@iowafieldhockey.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• Iowa is ranked sixth within the Penn Monto/NFHCA Coaches’ ballot after successful three of its first 4 video games to open the 2022 season. The Hawkeyes are outscoring their opposition, 15-3.
• Two Hawkeyes — Alex Wesneski and Annika Herbine — each rank within the prime 10 within the Large Ten in scoring. Wesneski is tied for second with six targets, whereas Herbine is tied for sixth with three. Herbine can be tied for the league lead with two game-winners.
• Iowa posted back-to-back shutouts in wins over Boston and Saint Louis. The Hawkeyes allowed simply six photographs within the two victories.
• Iowa ranks second nationally in assists per recreation (4.00), fifth in shutouts per recreation (0.50), sixth in factors per recreation (11.00) and eighth in targets per recreation (3.50) and scoring margin (2.33).
• The Hawkeyes return eight starters and 18 letterwinners from a workforce that completed 17-3, claimed an outright Large Ten title and superior to the Elite Eight for the nineteenth time in program historical past in 2021.
• Head coach Lisa Cellucci is in her ninth season on the helm of the Hawkeye area hockey program and her twenty third season general. Cellucci has been part of 271 Iowa victories and in 2020, she led this system to the Ultimate 4 for the twelfth time — the primary since 2008. Iowa has posted double digit win totals in six of her eight seasons. The Hawkeyes have received three Large Ten titles (2019, 2019 (BTT), 2021) beneath her watch.
• Cellucci earned her third straight Large Ten Coach of the 12 months honor in 2021. She is the primary coach in Large Ten historical past to be named Coach of the 12 months in three consecutive seasons.
• Iowa returns two-time Large Ten Participant of the 12 months and Defensive Participant of the 12 months Anthe Nijziel. The defender is the third participant in Large Ten historical past to earn a number of Participant of the 12 months honors.
• Iowa welcomes again three All-Individuals (Nijziel, Grace McGuire and Esme Gibson), 4 NFHCA All-Area honorees (Nijziel, McGuire, Gibson, Lokke Stribos) and 4 All-Large Ten picks (Nijziel, McGuire, Stribos, Gibson).
• Iowa went 10-3 in opposition to nationally-ranked foes in 2021, together with seven wins in opposition to top-seven ranked opponents.

CELLUCCI REACHES MILESTONE
Head coach Lisa Cellucci — the three-time reigning Large Ten Coach of the 12 months — earned her a centesimal profession victory on Aug. 26 when the Hawkeyes downed No. 20 Wake Forest within the ACC/Large Ten Problem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The ninth yr head coach is the fourth Hawkeye head coach to succeed in this 100-win milestone.

IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
The Hawkeyes dropped one spot to No. 6 within the Week 3 Penn Monto/NFHCA Nationwide Division I rankings. Iowa was ranked fifth within the preseason ballot. The workforce has been ranked in 63 consecutive polls courting again to the 2016 season.
• Final season, Iowa completed the yr ranked third after being ranked No. 1 for six straight weeks heading into the postseason. The workforce made its debut at No. 1 on Sept. 28, marking the primary time in program historical past the workforce had been atop the NFHCA ballot.

ALEX KEEPS SCORING
Junior Alex Wesneski posted back-to-back multi-goal video games in wins over Boston and Saint Louis on Sept. 2 and Sept. 4 at Grant Area. The Pennsylvania native has a team-high six targets this season — that are a profession excessive. Wesneski had 4 targets getting into the 2022 season.
• The multi-goal recreation was the third of Wesneski’s profession (vs. Maryland, spring 2021). Wesneski is the primary Hawkeye since Maddy Murphy to have back-to-back multi-goal video games within the spring of 2021.
• Wesneski is fifth nationally in targets per recreation (1.50) and ninth in factors per recreation (3.00) via the primary two weeks of the season.

STOUT DEFENSE
The Hawkeyes’ protection was excellent in a pair of shutout victories over Boston and Saint Louis. Iowa surrendered simply six photographs (two photographs on aim) within the two wins.
• Iowa’s protection has surrender 5 or fewer photographs in 13 of the workforce’s final 24 video games courting again to the 2021 season.

ANNI & GAME WINNERS
Sophomore Annika Herbine netted her first profession game-winning aim in Iowa’s double time beyond regulation victory over No. 20 Wake Forest on Aug. 26. The Pennsylvania native adopted it up with a second recreation winner in Iowa’s win over Saint Louis.

GRACE’S CLEAN SLATE
Senior Grace McGuire posted her first shutout of the season (and nineteenth profession shutout) in Iowa’s 4-0 win over Boston on Sept. 2. The goalkeeper additionally performed 30 clear minutes in opposition to Saint Louis earlier than redshirt freshman Mia Magnota made her Hawkeye debut for the second half.
• It was a stark distinction for McGuire as she confronted 22 photographs (and made a career-high 11 saves) in Iowa’s 3-2 loss to No. 2 North Carolina within the ACC/Large Ten Problem.

CIARA X 2
Senior Ciara Smith scored her first two targets of the season in Iowa’s 6-0 shutout win of Saint Louis on Sept. 4 at Grant Area. The Virginia native had a team-high 10 targets in 2021.
• It was Smith’s first profession multi-goal recreation within the common season. She scored twice final season within the NCAA Match win over American and two instances in 2019 within the Candy 16 win over Duke.

B1G PLAYERS TO WATCH
Three Hawkeyes — fifth-year seniors Anthe Nijziel and Lokke Stribos and senior Esme Gibson — have been named to the Large Ten Preseason Gamers to Watch Listing. It’s the third straight season Nijziel and Stribos have been included on the listing.

TEAM CAPTAINS
Iowa’s workforce captains for the 2022 season are seniors Anthe Nijziel, Leah Zellner and Esme Gibson and junior Ellie Flynn.

DEFENDING BIG TEN CHAMPS
The Hawkeyes claimed the outright Large Ten common season title for the primary time since 1999 throughout the 2021 season. It was this system’s second common season title in three years and the sixteenth in program historical past.

THE B1G BEST RETURNS… AGAIN
Senior Anthe Nijziel added to her trophy assortment in 2021 because the defender was named the NFHCA West Area Participant of the 12 months, Large Ten Co-Participant of the 12 months and Large Ten Defensive Participant of the 12 months. It was her second straight yr incomes each Large Ten honors. She was additionally a NFHCA first-team All-American, and NFHCA first-team All-West Area and a unanimous first-team All-Large Ten choice.
• Nijziel was the third participant and fourth Hawkeye to earn the NFHCA Regional Participant of the 12 months accolade, becoming a member of Natalie Cafone (2014, 2016) and Katie Birch (2019).
• She was the third participant in Large Ten historical past and third Hawkeye all-time to earn the Large Ten Participant of the 12 months honor greater than as soon as, becoming a member of Liz Tchou (1986, 1987) and Kristy Gleason (1992, 1993).
• Nijziel was the second Hawkeye and eighth Large Ten student-athlete to earn a number of Large Ten Defensive Participant of the 12 months honors.

A STOUT D RETURNS
The Hawkeyes return three defenders — Anthe Nijziel, Harper Dunne and Lieve Schalk — and goalkeeper Grace McGuire from a protection that led the NCAA with 11 shutouts in 2021 — probably the most for this system since 1993 when it had 16 shutouts.
• The unit posted a program file eight consecutive shutouts from Sept. 4-26 the place it surrendered simply 12 photographs on aim within the eight video games.

THE “O”
The Hawkeyes return 9 totally different gamers that scored at the least one aim throughout the 2021 season, together with main aim scorer Ciara Smith. The Virginia native had a team-high 10 targets whereas enjoying primarily as a reserve ahead a season in the past.
• Iowa’s offense was prolific, scoring 66 targets in 20 video games to tie for fourth nationally. The Hawkeyes scored three or extra targets in 12 of their 20 video games.

ROAD WARRIORS
The Hawkeyes completed the 2021 season with a 7-0 file away from Iowa Metropolis with victories at No. 5 Louisville, No. 6 Rutgers and No. 7 Maryland. The seven street wins had been probably the most since 1999.
• Iowa has received eight consecutive street video games courting again to the 2021 season.

MCGUIRE IN GOAL
Fifth-year senior Grace McGuire has began 42 consecutive video games for the Hawkeyes in aim. The Missouri native has received 33 video games, posted 19 shutouts and made 101 saves throughout her profession. She has a 0.83 profession targets in opposition to common.
• Final season McGuire made 46 saves in 20 video games with an NCAA-best 11 shutouts. She had a program-record eight consecutive shutouts from Sept. 4-26.
• McGuire went 17-3 with a 0.75 targets in opposition to common and a 0.754 save share. She led the Large Ten and ranked second nationally in targets in opposition to common.
• The reigning All-American didn’t enable a aim in 561:03 minutes from the second quarter in opposition to No. 1 North Carolina on Aug. 29, 2021, to the fourth quarter of the Oct. 1 recreation at No. 6 Rutgers.

THE INVITEES
4 Hawkeyes — Olivia Frazier, Annika Herbine, Jacey Wittel and Mia Magnotta — earned invites to USA Area Hockey’s 2023 U-21 and Growth Squad Choice Camp. The camp will happen in December 2022 or Jan. 2023.

EXPERIENCE GALORE
For a second straight yr, the Hawkeyes boast a roster with 14 upperclassmen, together with seven fifth-year seniors, three seniors and 4 juniors. Over the previous 4 seasons, Iowa’s fifth-year seniors have received 62 video games.
• Fifth-year seniors Anthe Nijziel and Lokke Stribos have began all 85 video games of their Hawkeye careers. 4 extra Hawkeyes — Sofie Stribos, Harper Dunne, Grace McGuire and Esme Gibson — have began 40 or extra consecutive video games.

CONSECUTIVE STARTS
Anthe Nijziel – 85
Lokke Stribos – 85
Sofie Stribos – 44
Harper Dunne – 42
Grace McGuire – 42
Esme Gibson – 41 (58 profession begins; didn’t begin one recreation in 2020)
Leive Schalk – 24

A STORIED HISTORY
• The Hawkeyes have made 27 NCAA Match appearances in program historical past — probably the most of any college as a member of the Large Ten Convention.
• Iowa has made 12 NCAA Ultimate 4 appearances, together with successful the 1986 NCAA Championship.
• This system’s 28 NCAA Match victories and 12 NCAA Ultimate Fours are probably the most of any college as a member of the Large Ten Convention.

SCOUTING PROVIDENCE
• Windfall enters the weekend with a 1-3 general file. The Friars picked up their first win of the season, downing Dartmouth, 3-2.
• The Friars have scored 5 targets in 4 video games, whereas the protection has surrendered 12 targets.

SCOUTING UMASS
• UMASS improved its file to 3-1 after posting a pair of victories final weekend. The Minutemen downed UMASS Lowell, 3-2, in a shootout earlier than beating New Hampshire, 4-3, in time beyond regulation.
• The workforce’s lone defeat got here within the second recreation of the season, falling to No. 1 Northwestern, 4-1.
• The Minutewomen are led by former Iowa nice Barb Weinberg (2000-04). Weinberg was a two-time All-American, three-time All-Large Ten performer and two-year workforce captain as a participant and he or she was an Iowa assistant coach in 2008.

SERIES RECORDS
• Iowa is 7-0 all-time in opposition to Windfall with the newest assembly happening in 2018. The Hawkeyes have shutout the Friars 5 instances, outscoring them, 22-2, general.
• The Hawkeyes lead the all-time sequence over Massachusetts, 8-2-1, with the newest assembly coming in 2011 — a 3-0 Iowa win.

UP NEXT
The Hawkeyes will open Large Ten play on Sept. 16, internet hosting Indiana at 4 p.m. (CT) to wrap up their five-game house stand. The sport can be a gold out in honor of childhood most cancers.