Important Names/Events Kelli Halcisak ‘04 was one of the top defenders all-time at PC. After spending her freshman year at Ohio State, where she led the team in scoring with 40 points (13 goals, 27 assists), she transferred to PC. She tallied 119 points (43 goals, 76 assists) as a Friar. She helped the Friars win three-consecutive league championships (2002 ECAC Eastern League, 2003 and 2004 Hockey East). Halcisak was named an ECAC All-Star in 2002 and a Hockey East All-Star in 2003 and 2004. She was also a three-time New England Hockey Writers All-Star (2002-04). She was a member of the silver medal winning 2004 U.S. World Championship team. Halcisak was also the first Providence defender to be named an All-American (Second Team 2003, First Team 2004). She was also chosen represent team USA in the 2007 IIHF Women’s World Championships. Kathy Lenehan ‘81 paved the way for future Friar hockey greatness. She scored 154 points in three seasons with the Friars and broke records throughout her career when women’s hockey at PC was improving and gaining prominence. Lenehan notched 84 career assists. She ranks fourth all-time for assists in a single-season with 35 during the 1979-80 season. Lenehan also starred for the field hockey and softball teams at Providence. Genevieve Lacasse ‘12 was one of the greatest goaltenders to have worn a Providence jersey. She holds all but one career record for the Friars. She made an astounding 3,482 saves in 127 games during her four-year career. Lacasse finished her career with 20 shutouts and a .933 save percentage. She was Providence College Athlete of the Year in 2011 and 2012. Lacasse also received Hockey East Rookie of the Year, All-Hockey East Team selections, All-Rookie selection and All-Tournament Team selection during her career. She competed with the Canadian U-22 National Team from 2009-2011. During 2012 she was a member of the Canadian National Team that took gold at the World Championships. Heather Linstad ‘89 was one of the first of a long line of high scoring forwards to lead the PC women’s hockey program to prominence. In her Friar career, she scored 76 goals and tallied 72 assists for 148 points. Her senior year, she registered the most goals (18), assists (30), and points (48) for her team. Linstad was named to the ECAC All-Star Team and received ECAC Player of the Year honors her senior year (1989). She served as the women’s ice hockey head coach at Northeastern, and she has held the same title at Connecticut for the last nine seasons. John Marchetti has the highest winning percentage of any women’s ice hockey coach at PC (.779 percent). From 198094, he coached the Friars to a 262-69-15 record. Marchetti led the Friars to all but two ECAC title games in his 14 years as a head coach. Under his coaching, the Friars brought home the championship title five times (1984, 1985, 1992, 1993, 1994). Marchetti, who also served as the women’s hockey head coach at Yale, stands at fourth all-time in the NCAA Division I record book for wins by a women’s hockey head coach with 292. Vicki Movsessian-Lamoriello ‘94 was one of the top defenders all-time at PC. From 1990-94, she played in 89 games, tallied 12 goals and 41 assists for 53 points. She helped the Friars capture the ECAC title in 1992, 1993 and 1994. Movsessian was named to the ECAC All-Star Team three times and was also a two-time New England Hockey Writers All-Star (1992-93, 1993-94). She played in the 1994 and 1997 World Championships as well as the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan where she helped the US capture a Gold Medal. She was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009 as a member of the 1998 Olympic Team. Kelly O’Leary ‘90 was one of the toughest defensive competitors in the history of Friar hockey. From 1986-90 she played in 98 games, tallied an impressive 63 goals and 60 assists for 123 career points. She also recorded 108 penalty minutes. Her 108 penalty minutes rank 12th-most all-time at PC. O’Leary was named to the ECAC All-Star Team in both her junior and senior years as a Friar. She was also named ECAC Player of the Year for the 1989-90 season. In 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1997, O’Leary played in the World Championships for Team USA. She was named to the World Championship All-Tournament Team three times (1990, 1994, 1997).
Stephanie O’Sullivan ‘95 was one of the greatest forwards ever at Providence College, finishing her career with an incredible 126 goals, 127 assists, and 253 points. O’Sullivan dominates the Friar record book as she is second in career points, first in assists and second in goals scored. She also is ranked fifth in points, goals and assists in a single season. O’Sullivan was named the 1991-92 ECAC Rookie of the Year as a freshman and Player of the Year her senior season in 1994-95. She also was named an ECAC All-Star First Team forward three years in a row from 1992-1995 and played in the World Championships in 1994, ‘97, ‘99 and ‘00. She tallied 10 goals and 13 assists for the US Women’s National Team in just 20 games. In 2008, she was inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame. Tom Palamara was the first head coach of the women’s hockey program at Providence College. Palamara, a sophomore at the College at the time, coached the team for the first six years of its existence. After finishing 0-8-0 in their inaugural season, the team turned things around and by its third season it posted its first of 21 straight winning seasons. Mary Ellen Riordan ‘82 scored an impressive 214 points with 106 goals and 108 assists for the Friars. She ranks fourth alltime at Providence for both points and assists. Her coach John Marchetti once said that she was, “A very solid player who can play both offense and defense.”
Jessica Tabb ‘01 was one of the most accomplished players ever for the Friars. She was the ECAC Rookie of the Year in the 1997-98 season, a 2001 All-American, a New England Hockey Writers All-Star her sophomore through senior years and was the Providence College Athlete of the Year in 2001. Tabb also was named to the ECAC All-Star Team her sophomore and senior years. She ranks ninth all-time in points with 170 and eighth in goals scored (86). Her 34 assists in a single season ranks seventh all-time. Tabb played for the 1996 Under-19 National Team and the 1999 and 2000 Under-21 National Teams as well. She was one of three Friars to be named to the 2003 World Championship team. Karen Thatcher ‘06 finished her career with 167 points in 132 games played, ranking her 10th all-time. She had a hand in PC’s Hockey East Tournament titles in 2004 and 2005. A top10 Patty Kazmaier Finalist, Thatcher led the team in scoring for the second-straight time in 2005 with 47 points. She was named Hockey East Co-Player of the Year in 2005. She earned the Hockey East Sportsmanship Award three-consecutive seasons as well as All-Academic honors. Thatcher was named an AllAmerica Second Team selection, a Hockey East All-Star, New England Hockey Writers All-Star and Providence College Athlete of the Year in her final season with the Friars. Thatcher won gold with Team USA at the 2008 and 2009 IIHF Championships. She also earned a silver medal at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Alison Wheeler ‘97 was a very talented all-around hockey player. Wheeler was second on her team in scoring (48 points) her rookie season at Providence College and scored the game-winning goal in the ECAC Championships against New Hampshire in 1994. She also went on to score yet another game-winning goal to take home the ECAC Championship title in 1995. Wheeler ranks seventh on PC’s all-time scoring list in points (184) and sixth in assists (103), as well as ninth on the school’s all-time goals list (81). As a sophomore, Wheeler was named to the New England Hockey Writer’s All-Star team. The Class of 2005 was one of the most celebrated classes in Friar history, as it captured four straight league titles in as many years and earned the program’s first NCAA tournament bid. Members include: Mara Amrhein, Danielle Bourgette, Hilary Greaves, Emily Gryp, Ashley Payton, Christina Redmond, Amy Thomas and Rush Zimmerman.
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