Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 19

Helen Resor

Hockey player and her coach
to participate in championships

A Yale player and a Yale coach will be in on the action when the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) holds its Women's World Championship in April.

Sophomore defenseman Helen Resor of Greenwich has been named to Team USA for the competition, while Yale head coach Hilary Witt will serve on the team's coaching staff. Resor played for the United States in the Olympics last spring and was part of Team USA's gold-medal effort at the 2005 IIHF World Championship. Witt was an assistant coach for the 2006 U.S. Women's Select Team that competed in the Four Nations Cup last November.

Team USA will compete against eight other countries in the IIHF tournament, to be held in Winnipeg and Selkirk, Manitoba, April 3-10. In addition to the United States, the World Championship field includes Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. The United States and Canada have met in all nine previous championship games, with Canada winning eight prior to the U.S. victory in 2005. The World Championship is held in all non-Olympic years.

Team USA released its preliminary roster for the tournament Wednesday morning. That roster included 24 players, and the final roster will include 20 players.

Resor is one of 13 players (eight forwards and five defensemen, including nine with Olympic experience) who have already been selected for the final roster of Team USA. To determine the remaining 20 members of the team, the United States will host a camp in Grand Forks, North Dakota, March 21-April 1.

Hilary Witt

Team USA is part of preliminary group A at the World Championship and will play its first game on April 3 against Kazakhstan. Two days later, the team takes on China. Both games are scheduled for Selkirk Arena. Qualifying and relegation games take place April 7-9, and the bronze medal and gold medal games take place April 10 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg.

Resor and Yale freshman forward Denise Soesilo of Hamburg, Germany, who played for Team Germany last winter, last year made history as the first Yale players to play in the Olympics. Resor had two assists and tied fellow team member Jenny Potter for the best +/- rating on the team (+10), helping Team USA to a bronze medal.

Resor's most recent experience for Team USA was at the Four Nations Cup last November, where she had one assist in four games. The United States won a silver medal. Last August Resor played on the U.S. Under-22 team, which played a three-game series with Canada's Under-22 team. Resor was the player of the game in the Americans' 2-1 overtime win to open the series, but Canada bounced back to take the final two games.

Resor has 18 points (4-14-18) in 20 games for Yale this season. Her cousins, sophomore Carry Resor and senior Nina Resor, both of Westwood, Massachusetts, are also on the team.

Witt, a member of the 2000-2001 U.S. National Team, will serve as an assistant coach for the United States at the World Championship after serving in the same role at the Four Nations Cup. Wisconsin's Mark Johnson is the head coach.

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