Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award

The Patty Kazmaier Award is given to the top woman college ice hockey player in the United States. The award is presented during the women's annual ice hockey championship, the Frozen Four. The award was first presented in 1998.
The award is named in honor of the late Patty Kazmaier-Sandt, a four-year varsity letter winner and All Ivy League honoree for the Princeton University women's ice hockey team from 1981 through 1986. She also played field hockey and lacrosse. She died on February 15, 1990 at the age of 28 from a rare blood disease. Patty was the daughter of Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier.
==Award winners==
Year	Winner 	Position 	School
1998	Brandy Fisher 	Forward 	New Hampshire
1999	A.J. Mleczko 	Forward 	Harvard
2000	Ali Brewer 	Goaltender	Brown
2001	Jennifer Botterill	Forward 	Harvard
2002	Brooke Whitney 	Forward 	Northeastern
2003	Jennifer Botterill	Forward 	Harvard
2004	Angela Ruggiero 	Defense 	Harvard
2005	Krissy Wendell 	Forward 	Minnesota
2006	Sara Bauer 	Forward 	Wisconsin
2007	Julie Chu 	Forward 	Harvard
2008	Sarah Vaillancourt	Forward 	Harvard
2009	Jessie Vetter 	Goaltender	Wisconsin
2010	Vicki Bendus 	Forward 	Mercyhurst
2011	Meghan Duggan 	Forward 	Wisconsin
2012	Brianna Decker 	Forward 	Wisconsin
2013	Amanda Kessel 	Forward 	Minnesota
2014	Jamie Lee Rattray 	Forward 	Clarkson
2015	Alex Carpenter 	Forward 	Boston College
2016	Kendall Coyne 	Forward 	Northeastern
2017	Ann-Renée Desbiens	Goaltender	Wisconsin
2018	Daryl Watts 	Forward 	Boston College
2019	Loren Gabel 	Forward 	Clarkson
2020	Élizabeth Giguère 	Forward 	Clarkson
2021	Aerin Frankel 	Goaltender	Northeastern
2022	Taylor Heise 	Forward 	Minnesota
2023	Sophie Jaques 	Defense 	Ohio State
2024	Izzy Daniel 	Forward 	Cornell
===Winners by school===
School 	Winners
Harvard 	6
Wisconsin 	5
Clarkson 	3
Minnesota 	3
Northeastern 	3
Boston College 	2
Brown 	1
Mercyhurst College 	1
New Hampshire 	1
Ohio State University	1
Cornell University 	1
==Finalists==
Year	Finalist 	School 	Finalist 	School
2004	Chanda Gunn 	Northeastern 	Jenny Potter 	Minnesota Duluth
2005	Natalie Darwitz 	Minnesota 	Caroline Ouellette 	Minnesota Duluth
2006	Sabrina Harbec
http://www.usahockey.com/Template_Usahockey.aspx?NAV=PL_05_08_05&ID=18926&DetailedNews=yes	St. Lawrence 	Riitta Schaublin 	Minnesota Duluth
2007	Meghan Agosta
http://www.ithacagirlshockey.com/newsupdates/2006_07/031207upd.html	Mercyhurst 	Sara Bauer 	Wisconsin
2008	Meghan Agosta
http://hurstathletics.cstv.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/031208aad.html	Mercyhurst 	Kim Martin 	Minnesota Duluth
2009	Meghan Agosta
http://hockey.teamusa.org/news/2009/03/12/three-finalists-named-for-2009-patty-kazmaier-memorial-award/10445	Mercyhurst 	Sarah Vaillancourt 	Harvard
2010	Kelly Patonhttp://sports.ca.msn.com/olympics/article.aspx?cp-documentid=23606203	New Hampshire 	Noora Räty 	Minnesota
2011	Meghan Agosta 	Mercyhurst 	Kelli Stack 	Boston College
2012	Jocelyne Lamoureux 	North Dakota 	Florence Schelling 	Northeastern
2013	Megan Bozek 	Minnesota 	Noora Räty 	Minnesota
2014	Hannah Brandt 	Minnesota 	Jillian Saulnier 	Cornell
2015	Hannah Brandt 	Minnesota 	Marie-Philip Poulin	Boston University
2016	Alex Carpenter 	Boston College 	Ann-Renee Desbiens 	Wisconsin
2017	Cayley Mercer 	Clarkson 	Lara Stalder 	Minnesota Duluth
2018	Victoria Bach 	Boston University	Loren Gabel 	Clarkson
2019	Megan Keller 	Boston College 	Annie Pankowski 	Wisconsin
2020	Alina Muller 	Northeastern 	Abby Roque 	Wisconsin
==See also==
*Hobey Baker Award - D-I men
*Laura Hurd Award - D-III women
*Sid Watson Award - D-III men
*NCAA Women's National Championship
==References==
==External links==
*Patty Kazmaier Award website from USA Hockey
[[File:KAZ_large.png|thumb|310px|2014 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Winner, Jamie Lee Rattray
Category:College ice hockey trophies and awards in the United States
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