TROY, N.Y. –  The USA Hockey Foundation today announced the top-10 finalists for the 2019 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete Lovisa Selander been selected. The senior goaltender is the first to earn the distinction in program history and is now eligible for top-three consideration.

A native of Sollentuna, Sweden, Selander is 11-13-5 with a 2.07 goals against average and a nation-leading .945 save percentage, in 29 starts this season. Playing 1712:29 minutes, she has made 1012 total saves with three shutouts (all 1-0 victories). She has made 30 or more saves 20 times this year, while stopping 40 or more 10 times and at least 50 on three occasions. Her 58-save shutout of Robert Morris on October 12 was three shy of the NCAA mark for stops in a shutout.

Selander is 8-9-1 in 18 ECAC Hockey contests, with a 2.43 goals against average and a .933 save percentage. Two of her shutouts have come in league play, stopping 41 shots in a 1-0 win at Brown on January 26 and 41 in a 1-0 home victory over Quinnipiac on December 8.

Among ECAC Hockey goaltender, Selander ranks first in save percentage and seventh in both save percentage and winning percentage (.466). In conference games, she is fifth in save percentage (.932).

The Preseason All-ECAC Hockey selection went 9-16-5 record with a 2.22 goals against average and a .932 save percentage in 30 games (all starts) last season. Notching one shutout, she went 6-10-3 with a 2.06 goals against average and a .936 save percentage in 19 conference games.

Selander earned All-ECAC Hockey Second Team in 2017-18 and took part in Sweden's National Team Camp over the summer. She then made her first appearance for the senior squad at the Four Nations Cup last November, making 46 saves in a 5-0 loss to Canada.

The NCAA Division I record holder in career saves with 3,947, Selander is the program's all-time leader in games (126), starts (124), losses (67) and ties (19), She is also third in wins (39) and fourth in shutouts (10).