TROY, N.Y. - ECAC Hockey has announced its year-end award winners from women's hockey and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete
Lovisa Selander has been selected to both the All-ECAC Hockey Third Team and the All-Rookie Team.
A goaltender from Sollentuna, Sweden, Selander went 9-16-7 as the starter in 31 of RPI's 34 games this season. She posted a 2.11 goals against average and a .939 save percentage, turning away a school-record 1,058 shots in 1960:13 minutes. Playing 92.7% of the team's minutes in net, she also recorded four shutouts.
A finalist for both ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Year and Rookie of the Year, Selander started all 22 conference games for the Engineers, going 8-9-5 with a 2.01 goals against average and a .942 save percentage. She made 701 saves, with all four of her shutouts coming during league play.
Selander finished the season with a bang, recording 123 saves in two games, as the eighth-seeded Engineers fell to fourth-ranked and top-seeded Quinnipiac University, in a best-of-three quarterfinal series in the ECAC Hockey playoffs on February 26 and 27. She made 57 saves in a 2-1 ovetime loss on Friday, before turning away a career-high 66 shots in a 3-2 double-overtime defeat on Saturday. The total ranks 13th in NCAA history and is the most by an ECAC Hockey goalie since Brittany Martin of Harvard had 67 against Wisconsin on March 10, 2007.
The school's single-season record holder in saves, Selander recorded 238 more than the previous record holder, Sonja van der Bliek '11 (820 in 2008-09). She also ranks third in minutes played, fourth in games and losses, fifth in save percentage and sixth in shutouts. Her four Goalie of the Week awards match van der Bliek for the most in a single season.
The Engineers went 10-17-7 this season, including an 8-9-5 mark in ECAC Hockey play, which was good for eighth place. RPI qualified for the league tournament, where they fell to top-seeded Quinnipiac, two games to none, despite going to overtime in each.