WCHA
Defensive Player of the Week
Monique
Lamoureux • Senior, Defenseman, University of North Dakota
MADISON,
Wis. – For the second straight time, the University of North Dakota’s Monique
Lamoureux has been named the WCHA Women’s Defensive Player of the Week, this
time for her two-way contributions in a two-game league sweep over visiting
Minnesota Duluth over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Lamoureux was named WCHA
co-Defensive Player of the Week on Nov. 20.
A
senior from Grand Forks, N.D., Lamoureux was a force at both ends of the ice
against the visiting Bulldogs, contributing five goals – including both
game-winners – and helping lead a strong defensive effort that held UMD to just
one power-play goal in 10 series opportunities and saw her block six shots. In
North Dakota’s 4-3 (ot) win last Friday (Nov. 23), Lamoureux scored a pair of
goals, including the winner at 3:08 of the extra session, had eight shots on
goal and earned the First Star of the Game award. She followed up that effort on
Saturday (Nov. 24) with a three-goal hat trick in a 5-2 UND triumph, again
notching the game-winner, putting six more shots on goal and again being named
the First Star.
Through 14 games this season for
No. 8-ranked UND (9-5-0), Lamoureux has contributed 19 points (9g, 10a) to up
her collegiate career totals to 219 points on 96 goals and 123 assists in 124
games.
Also nominated: Ivana Bilic, D,
BSU; Amanda Leveille, G, UM; Audrey Hanmer, D, SCSU; Saige Pacholok, D,
UW.
