Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers women's ice hockey

The RIT Tigers women's ice hockey team is one of two hockey teams representing Rochester Institute of Technology in Henrietta, New York in suburban Rochester, New York. The school's women's team competes in Division I as a member of College Hockey America. The team formerly competed at the Division III level ECAC West conference. The team won the 2012 NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Tournament in their last season at the D-III level.

History
RIT added women's varsity hockey for the 1975-76 season. After many years in the ECAC East, RIT moved to the ECAC West league for the 2007–2008 season. The team has made two NCAA tournament appearances, in 2007 and in 2011; they lost their lone game in the 2007 campaign to Amherst College. In their 2011 campaign, the lady tigers lost in the frozen four final to Norwich College. The team has not had a losing season since 1994–95.



Arenas

 * Frank Ritter Memorial Ice Arena (1975-present)
 * Gene Polisseni Center (2014-present)

Head Coaches

 * Dich Gordon (1975-1976) 0-2-0
 * Dich Gordon/Skip Blicker (1976-1977) 0-10-1 (unsure if co-coaches or Gordon didn't finish season)
 * Bob Green (1977-1980) 11-19-0
 * Tosh Farrell (1980-1982) 14-13-2
 * Bill Germond (1982-1983) 3-9-1
 * Glenn Collins (1983-1989) 48-40-5
 * Jon Poulakis (1989-1990) 2-10-2
 * Julie Handzel (1990-1995) 26-49-3
 * Rick Filghera (1995-1998) 35-15-5
 * Rob Scuteri (1998-2003) 79-28-14
 * Mike Grainsky (2003-2006) 49-26-3
 * Scott McDonald (2006-2018) 205-154-29
 * Chad Davis (2018-present) 24-37-9 as of end of 2019-20 season

Laura Hurd Award winners

 * 2011: Sarah Dagg '11

All-Americans

 * 2009–2011: Sarah Dagg '11
 * 2011: Tracy Galbraith '11
 * 2011: Katie Stack '11 (second team)

Coach of the Year

 * 2011: Scott McDonald
 * 2009: Scott McDonald (tie)

Player of the Year

 * 2011: Sarah Dagg '11

Tournament MVP

 * 2011: Kourtney Kunichika '14

Links

 * |College Hockey America woemn's hockey website
 * |RIT Tigers women's ice hockey website