Hockey Names Captains for 2015-16
4/28/2015 11:26:00 AM | Ice Hockey
Nicole Ferrara will serve as the team's captain
Nicole Ferrara will serve as the Syracuse hockey team's captain for the 2015-16 season, head coach Paul Flanagan announced.
Ferrara will lead the Orange squad that enters next season coming off its fourth CHA title game in seven seasons. The fifth-year senior was an assistant captain last season, while sitting out the year while recovering from a season-ending knee injury as a junior.
The Winthrop, Mass. native earned All-CHA Second Team honors as a sophomore and All-Rookie Team accolades as a freshman was on pace for her second-straight 20-point season as a junior before her season was cut short. She ranks ninth in program history in points (53) and goals (23) while ranking second among active players in both categories.
Three of her teammates will don an 'A' this season, with rising senior Nicole Renault doing so for the second-straight season. She'll be joined by two classmates in Melissa Piacentini and Larissa Martyniuk.
Renault, who was an All-CHA First Team defenseman in each of the last two seasons after making the All-Rookie team as a freshman, has 56 points in her three years with the Orange, including 42 assists, which ranks sixth in program history and is 15 shy of the program record.
Another All-CHA First Team selection last season, Piacentini became the Syracuse all-time leading goal scorer with 43 this season, is 18 points from becoming the first 100-point scorer in 'Cuse history. Piacentini led all Syracuse student-athletes with 29 points and 18 goals last season.
Martyniuk will be the lone junior in this year's group. A Winnipeg, Manitoba native, Martyniuk heads into her junior campaign with 25 points in 69 career games on the blue line. She scored two goals last season, with one of which serving as the eventual game-winner against Linednwood in the second-to-last weekend of the season that propelled the Orange to the No. 2 seed in the CHA Tournament.
Syracuse returns the CHA Rookie of the Year in Stephanie Grossi, a pair of All-CHA First Team players in Renault and Piacentini, the All-CHA Second Team goaltender Jenn Gilligan and another CHA All-Rookie Team selection in Alysha Burriss next season.
The Orange fell in the CHA Title game in double-overtime to RIT this season, and head coach Paul Flanagan was named CHA Coach of the Year for his team's success.
To keep up with the Orange throughout the offseason, follow @CuseIce on twitter.
Â
Ferrara will lead the Orange squad that enters next season coming off its fourth CHA title game in seven seasons. The fifth-year senior was an assistant captain last season, while sitting out the year while recovering from a season-ending knee injury as a junior.
The Winthrop, Mass. native earned All-CHA Second Team honors as a sophomore and All-Rookie Team accolades as a freshman was on pace for her second-straight 20-point season as a junior before her season was cut short. She ranks ninth in program history in points (53) and goals (23) while ranking second among active players in both categories.
Three of her teammates will don an 'A' this season, with rising senior Nicole Renault doing so for the second-straight season. She'll be joined by two classmates in Melissa Piacentini and Larissa Martyniuk.
Renault, who was an All-CHA First Team defenseman in each of the last two seasons after making the All-Rookie team as a freshman, has 56 points in her three years with the Orange, including 42 assists, which ranks sixth in program history and is 15 shy of the program record.
Another All-CHA First Team selection last season, Piacentini became the Syracuse all-time leading goal scorer with 43 this season, is 18 points from becoming the first 100-point scorer in 'Cuse history. Piacentini led all Syracuse student-athletes with 29 points and 18 goals last season.
Martyniuk will be the lone junior in this year's group. A Winnipeg, Manitoba native, Martyniuk heads into her junior campaign with 25 points in 69 career games on the blue line. She scored two goals last season, with one of which serving as the eventual game-winner against Linednwood in the second-to-last weekend of the season that propelled the Orange to the No. 2 seed in the CHA Tournament.
Syracuse returns the CHA Rookie of the Year in Stephanie Grossi, a pair of All-CHA First Team players in Renault and Piacentini, the All-CHA Second Team goaltender Jenn Gilligan and another CHA All-Rookie Team selection in Alysha Burriss next season.
The Orange fell in the CHA Title game in double-overtime to RIT this season, and head coach Paul Flanagan was named CHA Coach of the Year for his team's success.
To keep up with the Orange throughout the offseason, follow @CuseIce on twitter.
Â
Players Mentioned
F
/ Ice Hockey
F
/ Ice Hockey
G
/ Ice Hockey
F
/ Ice Hockey
D
/ Ice Hockey
F
/ Ice Hockey
D
/ Ice HockeySyracuse Ice Hockey
Saturday, October 11
Highlights | Syracuse vs. Minnesota Dultuh
Saturday, September 27
Syracuse Women's Ice Hockey
Saturday, February 22
Women's Ice Hockey Recap versus Lindenwood
Saturday, February 01
