2022 NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2022 NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Tournament was a tournament to determine the Division III national champion in women's ice hockey.  This was the twenty-second (twenty-first completed) time a national championship tournament at the Division III level had been held and was the twentieth (nineteenth completed) one sanctioned by the NCAA.
== Format ==
Ten teams qualify for the single elimination tournament. The conference tournament champions of the CCC, MIAC, NCHA, NEHC, NESCAC, NEWHL, and UCHC received automatic bids to the tournament. Three at-large bids were also selected. There were no bids guaranteed to a school from a non-automatic-qualifier conference this season. This was the first year in which the CCC received its own automatic bid, after assuming operations of the departing Colonial Hockey Conference. The first round games were held at campus sites on March 9. The quarterfinal games were held at campus sites on March 12. The semifinal and final rounds were held March 18 and 19 at Chip Kenyon '85 Arena of Middlebury College, the highest remaining seed in the tournament.
==Bids==
===Automatic Bids===
* Commonwealth Coast Conference champion: Endicott Gulls (3rd appearance)
* Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion: Gustavus Adolphus Golden Gusties (15th appearance^)
* New England Hockey Conference champion: Elmira Soaring Eagles (17th appearance)
* New England Small College Athletic Conference champion: Middlebury Panthers (17th appearance^^)
* Northeast Women's Hockey League champion: Plattsburgh Cardinals (17th appearance)
* Northern Collegiate Hockey Association champion: Aurora Spartans (1st appearance)
* United Collegiate Hockey Conference champion: Nazareth Golden Flyers (1st appearance)
===At-Large Bids===
==== Pool C (Teams from all conferences) ====
* Colby Mules - NESCAC (1st appearance)
* Wisconsin-Eau Claire Blugolds - WIAC (4th appearance)
* Wisconsin-River Falls Falcons - WIAC* (13th appearance)
^^ = Middlebury appeared in the 2 AWCHA tournaments that predated the NCAA tournament
^ = Gustavus appeared in 1 of 2 AWCHA tournaments that predated the NCAA tournament
* = Top ranked WIAC team did not qualify for a Pool B bid this season. However, UWRF still qualified as a Pool C.
== Misc. ==
* Seven of the ten schools who earned bids appeared in the previous NCAA tournament.
* This is the 10th of an active 12 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance streak for Plattsburgh.
* This is the 9th of 9 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances for Elmira.
* This is the 4th of 4 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances for UW-Eau Claire.
* This is the 3rd of an active 5 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance streak for UW-River Falls.
* This is the 2nd of an active 4 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance streak for Gustavus.
* This is the 2nd of an active 4 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance streak for Middlebury.
* The WIAC gets two bids for the third consecutive tournament.
* The NESCAC gets two bids in back-to-back tournaments.
* As of 2023, this serves as Elmira's last NCAA Tournament appearance.
* As of 2023, this serves as UW-Eau Claire's last NCAA Tournament appearance.
* As of 2023, this serves as Endicott's last NCAA Tournament appearance.
* As of 2023, this serves as Aurora's last NCAA Tournament appearance.
* Adrian misses its first NCAA tournament since 2015.
* Norwich misses its first NCAA tournament since 2015.
* River Falls becomes the highest seed (#2) to ever play in the play-in round.
* Middlebury hosts the Frozen Four for the first time since 2009.
== Seeds (Determined by Pairwise Rankings) ==
# Middlebury (24-0-0)
# UW-River Falls (26-1-0)
# Plattsburgh (24-2-1)
# Nazareth (27-1-0)
# Elmira (24-2-1)
# Gustavus (22-3-2)
# UW-Eau Claire (23-5-0)
# Colby (16-5-1)
# Endicott (19-4-1)
# Aurora (21-6-0)
==Results==
===First Round===
Held at campus sites
-Hunt Arena- River Falls, WI-Don Roberts Ice Rink- St. Peter, MN
===Quarterfinals===
Held at campus sites
-Chip Kenyon '85 Arena- Middlebury, VT-Ronald B. Stafford Ice Arena- Plattsburgh, NY-Bill Gray's Regional Iceplex- Brighton, NY-Hunt Arena- River Falls, WI
===Semifinals===
Hosted by Middlebury College: Chip Kenyon '85 Arena- Middlebury, VT
===Third Place===
Hosted by Middlebury College: Chip Kenyon '85 Arena- Middlebury, VT
===Championship===
Hosted by Middlebury College: Chip Kenyon '85 Arena- Middlebury, VT
== Bracket ==
==Tournament Notes==
* After two years of a champion not being crowned, Middlebury wins its fourth national championship, breaking the tie with Elmira for 2nd most in history.
* Middlebury wins the title for the first time since 2006.
* Gustavus finishes 2nd, highest in program history, and becomes the fourth west team in five tournaments to reach the title game. (GAC did finish as national runner-up in the 2001 AWCHA tournament, coincidentally, losing to Middlebury.)
* Plattsburgh reaches its 14th Frozen Four, finishing 3rd for the 4th time, in what ends up being the final third place game ever played.
* Elmira reaches its 11th Frozen Four, dropping its first-ever 3rd place game. (Was previously 3-0)
* Middlebury becomes the first women's Division III team to go undefeated. (27-0-0)
* Middlebury becomes the first NESCAC team to win the national title since Amherst in 2010.
* Gustavus ties the national championship game with a miniscule 0.1 seconds remaining in regulation to send the game to overtime.
== Statistics ==
=== Skaters ===
Top Scorers
Player 	Team 	Pos. 	Yr. 	GP 	G 	A 	P 	+/- 	PIM 	SOG
Callie Hoff 	UW-River Falls 	F 	5th 	2 	2 	4 	6 	3 	0 	10
Hailey Holland 	Gustavus 	F 	Jr. 	4 	2 	3 	5 	3 	4 	21
Tina Press 	Gustavus 	F 	Sr. 	4 	2 	3 	5 	3 	0 	14
Kora Torkelson 	UW-River Falls 	F 	5th 	2 	1 	3 	4 	2 	2 	3
Kylie Quinlan 	Middlebury 	F 	So. 	3 	4 	0 	4 	1 	0 	6
Annie Katonka 	Plattsburgh 	F 	5th 	3 	3 	1 	4 	2 	0 	11
Jenna Letterie 	Middlebury 	F 	Jr. 	3 	1 	3 	4 	3 	2 	8
Ivy Boric 	Plattsburgh 	F 	Jr. 	3 	1 	3 	4 	2 	0 	9
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=== Goaltending ===
Top Goaltenders (minimum 110 minutes played)
Player 	Team 	Yr.	GP	W	L	SA	GA	GAA 	SV% 	SO	TOI
Sophia Merageas 	Middlebury 	So.	3 	3	0	69	4 	1.24	.942	1 	193:11
Katie McCoy 	Gustavus 	Jr.	4 	3	1	89	7 	1.67	.921	1 	252:03
Leonie Kuehberger	Elmira 	Fr.	3 	1	2	92	7 	2.37	.924	0 	177:00
Sami Miller 	UW-River Falls	Sr.	2 	1	1	47	5 	2.52	.894	1 	119:01
=== All-Tournament Team ===
* F: Hailey Holland- Gustavus
* F: Madie Leidt- Middlebury
* F: Jenna Letterie- Middlebury
* F: Tina Press- Gustavus
* G: Katie McCoy- Gustavus
* G: Sophia Merageas- Middlebury (MVP)
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