Boston University women’s hockey senior forward Jenn Wakefield and sophomore forward Marie Philip-Poulin were two of the top players in Hockey East this past season and will get to display their talents on a national stage.
Wakefield and Poulin have been selected to represent Team Canada in the 2012 IIHF World Women’s Championship where they will play alongside former-BU defenseman Catharine Ward. The tournament will take place April 7-14 in Burlington, Vt.
This tournament appearance will be the third IIHF World Women’s Championship appearance of Poulin’s career, as she appeared in the tournament in 2009 and 2011. Poulin has had an illustrious beginning to her international career, as she scored both goals in Canada’s 2-0 win over Team USA in the 2010 Winter Olympics to lead the team to a gold medal.
Poulin served as an assistant captain for the Terriers this season, but spent more than half the season sidelined with various injuries. In just the second game of the season, Poulin experienced a spleen injury that put her on the sideline until second semester. After competing in three games against the University Maine to start off the New Year, Poulin injured her shoulder, causing her to miss another two games.
She scored all of her 11 goals and 14 assists in 13 of the final 14 games of the season, which was good for fifth on the team in points on the year.
Wakefield will be making her second consecutive appearance at a World Championship, where she will be trying to improve upon the team’s silver medal last year. Wakefield scored a goal and two assists in last year’s tournament.
The team’s leading goal scorer with 29 on the season, Wakefield also led the team in points with 57 and shots with 245. She was named to the New England Women’s Division I All-Stars by the New England Hockey Writers Association for the second straight season.
Wakefield, who was named to the Hockey East 10th Anniversary team, broke numerous records this season and was the first women in Hockey East to score more than 100 goals. She tallied her 200th career point at the end of the season.
The end of the season marked the end of Wakefield’s career with the Terriers, in which she totaled 111 points. In her four-year collegiate career, the first two years of which she spent with the University of New Hampshire, Wakefield totaled 206 points.
This year’s Canadian squad features three players from Hockey East schools, as goaltender Geneviève Lacasse of reigning Hockey East runner-up Providence College also made the team. Seven other players from the NCAA are on the Canadian roster, including four skaters from Cornell University.
Team Canada’s first game of the tournament is against the reigning world champion USA on April 7, when the Canadians will try to begin a run for its first gold medal since 2007.
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