Women's Hockey Helps Host Hockey East's Skating Strides Against Breast Cancer Day

On January 27, 2007, as UConn defeated Northeastern, 4-1, the Hockey East Association held its first annual Skating Strides Against Breast Cancer Day with an event at each of the home sites for league games. Today’s event in Storrs alone helped raise $4,000 for breast cancer research. The funds will be donated to the American Cancer Society and Mel’s Foundation. Today, both sets of Huskies donned commemorative pink warm-up jerseys for pregame and, during the game itself, many players used with pink composite sticks courtesy of league sponsor TPS Hockey. Autographed jerseys and sticks were raffled off after the game as both teams took part in an autograph session for fans. Patrons also donated to breast cancer research at the door and hung pink skates in the Freitas Ice Forum lobby with their name on it to show their support of the event. Some photos from the event are below:

Both Northeastern (left) and UConn (right) wore special jerseys during pregame warmups. Defenseman Bridget King is shown at right with one of the special pink composite sticks donated for the game by TPS Hockey.

Members of the UConn hockey team raised $3,400 in the days leading up to the game from their friends and family and presented a commemorative check before the game. The full team posed with the check in the locker room before warmups and, later, UConn's seniors and captains presented it on the ice. In addition to the $3,400, another $600 was raised on-site on game day.

Left: Players from both teams signed autographs after the game...Right: Seniors Leslie Hurlburt, Katherine Van Deveire and Alicia Ramolla take a photo with one of the autographed composite sticks that was auctioned off after the game. Behind them are some of the many pink skates that adorned the walls of the Freitas Ice Forum lobby.