No. 15 Women's Hockey Travels to Colgate and Cornell for Weekend Trip

Friday, October 31

Hamilton, N.Y.

3 p.m.

Brown University

Colgate

Photo by: Jamie Fiedorek

No. 15 Women's Hockey Travels to Colgate and Cornell for Weekend Trip

10/30/2025 10:32:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – No. 15 Brown women's hockey hits the road for two ECAC games this weekend as the Bears will travel to No. 11/10 Colgate on Friday (Oct. 31) and No. 4 Cornell on Saturday (Nov. 1).

Both games over the weekend will be streamed on ESPN+ and puck drop is set for 3 p.m. on both days.

THE PUCK DROP
• Brown is back in the Top 15 for the first time this season. The Bears entered both the USCHO and USA Hockey poll after beating No. 7 Quinnipiac and beginning the season 3-0-1.
• The Bears took down No. 7 Quinnipiac on Saturday (Oct. 25) as Rory Edwards shutdown the high-powered Bobcat offense with her fourth-career shutout and second-straight against Quinnipiac.
• India McDadi scored her sixth game-winning goal of her career with a goal in the third period against Quinnipiac
• Margot Norehad leads Brown with three points after assisting on McDadi's goal. Norhad is tied with Monique Lyons for a team-high two goals.
• Brown has scored a goal in all four games this season. The Bears have now scored a goal in 10-straight regular season games since a 0-0 tie at Quinnipiac last season (Jan. 25). The last time Brown was shutout in a regular season loss was Nov. 17, 2024 against Yale, a stretch of 19 games. It is the longest gap between shutout losses since a 23-game span in the 2005-06 season.

SCOUTING THE RAIDERS
• Colgate is 4-4-0 overall and 1-1-0 in ECAC play after the Raiders lost at Dartmouth and won at Harvard last weekend.
• The Raiders have scored at least three goals in six of their eight games this season.
• Emma Pais leads Cornell in both goals (8) and points (14) on the early season.
• Colgate has used two goalies so far this season. Brooke Davis holds a 1.82 GAA and .941 save percentage to lead the team.

INSIDE THE SERIES
• Brown is 12-33-3 all-time against Colgate and has currently lost the last 13 meetings with the Raiders.
• Last season, Brown fell on overtime at home to Colgate, going to overtime for the first time since Nov. 15, 2014.
• Brown's last win against Colgate was a 4-3 victory at home back in 2018.
• The Bears have not won in Hamilton since a 4-1 win on Oct. 27, 2012. Since that win, Brown is 0-13-0 on the road.

SCOUTING THE BIG RED
• Cornell has started the season winning its first five games, including going 2-0 against Harvard and Dartmouth to start the season.
• The Big Red have one of the best scoring margins in the NCAA as Cornell is averaging 4.4 goals per game and allowing just 0.8 goals per game.
• Cornell has scored at least three goals in every game this season and has scored five goals in each of its last three contests.
• Annalies Bergmann has already earned ECAC Goalie of the Week honors twice this season and has three shutouts through the first five games.

INSIDE THE SERIES
• Brown is 34-53-10 all-time against Cornell and are 0-9-1 in the last 10 meetings. Brown has dropped seven-straight matchups with the Big Red since a 3-3 tied in Ithaca on Nov. 6, 2021.
• Brown's last win in the series was a 4-3 win in Providence on Nov. 3, 2018
• The Bears have not won in Ithaca since Nov. 5, 2005.

CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
• The Bears will have two players with the 'C' on their sweaters this season, as seniors Jade Iginla and India McDadi were both voted captains for the season
• Iginla, who served as a captain last season, finished last year with 16 points (6 goals, 10 assists)
• McDadi was an assistant captain a season ago and was third on the team in points (20) and second on the team in assists (14).

DONNING THE 'A'
• Two Bears will be serving as assistant captains this season with seniors Gali Levy and Ellie Gauvin being voted by their teammates.

RETURNING FIREPOWER
• Brown boasts and impressive group of returners as Brown returns 85% (63-74 goals) of its goal scoring from a season-ago.
• The top-five goal scorers from last year are back, led by Moniques Lyons (14), Margot Norehad (12), Ava DeCoste (11), India McDadi (6) and Jade Iginla (6).
• The Bears return seven of their eight double-digit points scorers from last season, including Lyons (24), DeCoste (21) and McDadi (20), who all reached the 20-point mark.

BETWEEN THE PIPES
• Brown found its starting goaltender last year in Rory Edwards, the junior returns having played in 25 of the 35 games Brown played last season.
• Edwards finsihed the year with a 12-8-2 record, including three shutouts. Edwards three shutouts last season are the most by a Bear since Katie Jamieson had three back in the 2009-10 season.
• Edwards has a 2.23 GAA and a .921 save percentage.
• The best stretch of Edwards career came from Jan. 17-Jan. 25 of last season when the Bears went 2-0-2 against St. Lawrence, Clarkson, Princeton and Quinnipiac. Edwards earned wins at both St. Lawrence and Clarkson with both games going into overtime. She followed that up with a tie at Princeton and a 45-save 0-0 tie at Quinnipiac to close the stretch.
• Edwards was twice named ECAC Goaltender of the Week last season.

STRONG START FOR THE BEARS
• Brown began the season 2-0-0 with wins over No. 13 Boston University and Merrimack. It is the second-straight season Brown has started 2-0-0 and the first time Brown has going 2-0-0 to start back-to-back seasons since 2000-01 and 2001-02
• The win at No. 13 Boston University was the first ranked win in a season opener for the Bears since Brown beat No. 2 Minnesota to start the 2000-01 season.

2024-25 SERIES WINS
• Brown won five series in ECAC play last season, sweeping Harvard and Dartmouth and winning series against Princeton, Quinnipiac and St. Lawrence 1-0-1.
• It is the first time since the 2003-04 season that Brown has gone unbeaten against five difference conference play teams in a season.
• Brown last won a series against:
Harvard (2023-24), Dartmouth (2023-24), Qunnipiac (2008-09), St. Lawrence (2002-03) and Princeton (2001-02)

NORTH COUNTRY SWEEP
• Brown swept its North Country trip for the first time in program history earning overtime wins against No. 8 St. Lawrence and No. 7 Clarkson.
• The win at St. Lawrence was the first time since 2005 and the win at Clarkson was the first win there since 2006.

HITTING THE WINS
• With Brown's win over Dartmouth, the Bears reached 14 wins on the year and nine wins in ECAC play. Both of those numbers are the most for Brown since the 2005-06 season
• The Bears earned their winning record since the 2005-06 season.
• Brown's five Ivy League wins last season are the most since winning five in the 2003-04 season.

ZUPKOFSKA SHUTOUT
• Sophomore Anya Zupkofska posted her first-career shutout in the 1-0 win over Merrimack on Oct. 19.

SPREADING THE POINTS
• Through two games, Brown does not have a single player with more than two points this season. Olivia Fantino netted Brown's first goal of the year against BU and Monique Lyons followed that with the game winner against the Terriers.
• Margot Norehad picked up Brown's lone goal against Merrimack.
• Five different players have recorded an assist for the Bears this season.

WHO NEEDS SHOTS
• Brown beat No. 13 Boston University despite finishing the game with just 18 shots on goal. Brown had not won a game in the last two seasons (0-17-0) when registering less than 20 shots.
• Brown completed the comeback with a third period goal, a period in which the Bears had just four shots. the fewest in the game.

I GUESS SHOTS DO WORK
• In the win over Merrimack Brown flipped the script, peppering Merrimack with 43 shots. It was the most shots for the Bears in a game since firing 47 against Harvard on Feb. 7, 2025.
• Brown outshot Merrimack 43-10, matching the largest discrepancy since that Harvard game (47-14).
• Brown's 43 shots netting just one goal are the most shots in a game with one goal or fewer since the Bears were shutout despite 47 shots in a loss against Union in 2010.

BEARS IN THE PWHL
• Brown had three former players earn spots on training camp rosters in the PWHL. Former goalie Kaley Doyle is in camp with the New York Sirens, Shay Maloney is in camp with the Boston Fleet and Cam Sikich is in camp with the Minnesota Frost.

TAKING DOWN THE BOBCATS
• Brown shutout Quinnipiac for a win over the No. 7 ranked Bobcats on Oct. 25. In a series that has been dominated by the Bobcats, Brown is now 3-0-1 in the last four meetings.
• It is the first time Brown has gone unbeaten against Quinnipiac in four-straight games since the first four games the two teams ever played from 2002-06.
• In the win, Brown shutdown an offense that had been averaging 4.50 goals per game. It is the second-straight game Brown has shutout Quinnipiac. The last time a non-Brown team had shutout Quinnipiac was Cornell on March 2, 2024.

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