Given the new Final Five format, the league decided to forgo its annual awards banquet where it typically announces all of the awards. As a result, we have them now. Therefore, random Thursday blog post!
WCHA Player of the Year
Matt Frattin, UND
WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year
Chay Genoway, UND
WCHA Defensive Player of the Year
Justin Schultz, UW
WCHA Rookie of the Year
Jason Zucker, DU
WCHA Scoring Champion
Matt Frattin, UND
WCHA Goaltending Champion
Aaron Dell, UND
WCHA Coach of the Year
Dean Blais, UNO
All-WCHA First Team
F – Matt Frattin, UND
F – Jack Connolly, UMD
F – Mike Connolly, UMD
D – Justin Schultz, UW
D – Chay Genoway, UND
G - Aaron Dell, UND
All-WCHA Second Team
F – Jason Zucker, DU
F – Drew Shore, DU
F – Justin Fontaine, UMD
D – Jake Gardiner, UW
D – Matt Donovan, DU
G – Kent Patterson, UM
All-WCHA Third Team
F – Jason Gregoire, UND
F – Jaden Schwartz, CC
F – Drew LeBlanc, SCSU
D – Kurt Davis, MSU
D - Justin Faulk, UMD
G – John Faulkner, UNO
All-WCHA Rookie Team
F – Jason Zucker, DU
F – Jaden Schwartz, CC
F – J.T. Brown, UMD
D – Justin Faulk, UMD
D – David Makowski, DU
G – Sam Brittain, DU
There were also 140 players named to the All-WCHA Academic Team … listed below by school.
UAA – Chris Crowell, Alex Gellart, Dusan Sidor, Luka Vidmar, Scott Warner
BSU – Ryan Adams, Jake Areshenko, Dan Bakala, Emil Billberg, Travis Bosch, Matt Carlson, Ryan Cramer, Mathieu Dugas, Darcy Findlay, Drew Fisher, Matt Hartmann, Brad Hunt, Ben Kinne, Ian Lowe, Dan MacIntyre, Jamie MacQueen, Aaron McLeod, Brance Orban, Matt Read, Brady Wacker, Shea Walters
CC – Ted Behrend, Art Bidwill, David Civitarese, Gabe Guentzel, Tim Hall, Andrew Hamburg, Joe Howe, Ryan Lowery, Tyler O’Brien, Scott Winkler
DU – David Carle, Jon Cook, Nate Dewhurst, Matt Donovan, Dustin Jackson, John Lee, Anthony Maiani, Jesse Martin, Chris Nutini, Kyle Ostrow, Shawn Ostrow, Paul Phillips, Josh Rosenholtz, John Ryder, Luke Salazar, Drew Shore
MTU – Jordan Baker, Corson Cramer, Kevin Genoe, Peter Heinonen, Mikael Lickteig, Alex MacLeod, Brett Olson, Josh Robinson, Bennett Royer
UM – Jay Barriball, Zach Budish, Jacob Cepis, Cade Fairchild, Mike Hoeffel, Jake Kremer, Nick Larson, Taylor Matson, Joe Miller, Aaron Ness, Kent Patterson, Nico Sacchetti
UMD – Wade Bergman, Jack Connolly, Aaron Crandall, Dan DeLisle, Keegan Flaherty, Justin Fontaine, David Grun, Chad Huttel, Kenny Reiter, Kyle Schmidt
MSU – Channing Boe, Phil Cook, Cameron Cooper, Tyler Elbrecht, Rylan Galiardi, Eriah Hayes, Justin Jokinen, Austin Lee, Evan Mosey, Adam Mueller, Brett Peterson, Andrew Sackrison, Joe Schiller, Ben Youds
UNO – Fredrik Bergman, Terry Broadhurst, Kyle Ensign, John Faulkner, Joey Martin, Eric Olimb, Rich Purslow, Pasko Skarica, Matt Smith, Nick Von Bokern
UND – Ben Blood, Brett Bruneteau, Brent Davidson, Brad Eidsness, Matt Frattin, Chay Genoway, Jason Gregoire, Brett Hextall, Ryan Hill, Mario Lamoureux, Derrick LaPoint, Andrew MacWilliam, Brad Malone, Tate Maris, Jake Marto, Carter Rowney
SCSU – Brett Barta, Jordy Christian, Jared Festler, Ben Hanowski, Oliver Lauridsen, Drew LeBlanc, Mike Lee, Aaron Marvin, Travis Novak, Nick Oslund, Nicolas Rioux, Garrett Roe, Brian Volpei, Sam Zabkowicz
UW – Ryan Little, Eric Springer, Mitch Thompson