The White Rock, BC forward was recently named the Brodrick Trophy Recipient as the MVP of the 2024/25 U SPORTS Women’s Hockey Season. Along with being named U SPORTS MVP, Elliott was named a First Team All-Canadian, and Canada West Player of the Year.

This season Elliott led the country with 22 goals and 42 total points in 28 games while setting University of British Columbia program records in both categories.

Elliott joined UBC in 2021/22, producing 9 points in 18 games during her freshman season. She would jump to 23 points in 2022/23 and 21 points in 2023/24, before exploding this season for 42.

Prior to her time with UBC, Elliott spent three seasons in the CSSHL with Delta Hockey Academy. In 53 CSSHL Female U18 Prep games Elliott tallied 29 goals and 24 assists.

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The Richmond, BC product recorded at least a single point in all seven regular season games he played in in March, finishing with nine assists. On March 28 he would record his first career WHL playoff assist in game one of his teams opening round series.

During the regular season Lin would finish fifth among all WHL rookies, and second among rookie defensemen, with 53 points in 60 games. His 48 assists led all WHL rookies.

Prior to his time in the WHL Lin spent three seasons in the CSSHL with Delta. He joined Delta Green for the 2021/22 U15 Prep season, producing 31 points in 29 games. He would add five assists in five playoff games as Delta Green captured the 2022 CSSHL U15 Prep Western Championship.

The following U15 Prep season he would lead his team with 17 goals and 41 points in 27 games, leading to the Giants selecting him sixth overall at the 2023 WHL Draft.

In 2023/24 he tallied 32 points in 28 U18 Prep games, earning him CSSHL U18 Prep (BC Division) First All-Star Team honours. That season he would get his first taste of international experience with Team Canada at the Youth Olympic Games, leading all defensemen with four assists and five points.

Along with his successful season with the Giants, Lin captured a Gold Medal with Team Canada White at the U17 World Hockey Challenge.

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Ethan Edwards, Charlie Elick, Trey Taylor and Matthew Wood have all signed NHL Entry Level Contracts, while Evan Friesen has signed in the ECHL.

Selected in the fourth round, 120th overall at the 2020 NHL Draft by the New Jersey Devils, Edwards has signed a two year contract with the team. The St. Albert, AB defenseman has spent the last four seasons in the NCAA with the University of Michigan, tallying 56 points in 130 games.

Edwards spent two seasons in the CSSHL with the Northern Alberta Xtreme (NAX), capturing a U16 Prep Championship in 2018. Overall, he would play 63 games split between the NAX U16 Prep and U18 Prep teams, recording 49 points.

Elick has signed with the Columbus Blue Jackets after they selected him in the second round, 36th overall at the 2024 NHL Draft. The Calgary, AB defenseman joined Edge School in 2020/21, playing with their U15 Prep team. In 2021/22 he would tally 25 points in 26 U18 Prep games while being named the CSSHL U18 Prep Top Freshman Award winner.

The Brandon Wheat Kings would select Elick with the third overall pick at the 2021 WHL Draft where he would spend his first two-and-a-half WHL season before joining the Tri-City Americans midway through this year. In 196 career WHL games Elick has 10 goals and 45 assists.

Undrafted to the NHL, Taylor has signed a contract with the Dallas Stars. Taylor spent the 2017/18 season with the Delta Hockey Academy U16 Prep team, posting 12 goals and 16 assists in 35 games.

The Richmond, BC defender would join Clarkson University of the NCAA in 2022/23, playing three seasons with the team. In 110 NCAA games Taylor finished with 16 goals and 38 assists while being named the NCAA (ECAC) Best Defensive Defenseman and a Second Team All-Star in 2023/24.

Woods spent the 2019/20 CSSHL U15 Prep season with the West Van Warriors (now the North Shore Warriors), finishing second in the league in goals (40) and fourth in points (71) in 30 games. At the conclusion of the season the Regina Pats selected Wood in the second round, 41st overall at the 2020 WHL Draft. However, Wood took the NCAA route.

TheLethbridge, AB forward spent two seasons with the University of Connecticut before transferring to the University of Minnesota this season. In 109 NCAA games Wood recorded 44 goals and 57 assists while being named to the NCAA (Hockey East) All-Rookie Team in 2022/23.

Selected in the first round, 15th overall at the 2023 NHL Draft by the Predators, Wood has represented Team Canada on three separate occasions: twice with the U18 Team, and once with the World Juniors Team.

A forward from Winnipeg, MB, Friesen has signed an ECHL Contract with the Utah Grizzlies. Friesen has played two games with the team already, having played one with them last season.

Undrafted to the WHL, Friesen has spent the last four seasons in the top junior hockey league in Western Canada. This season he would captain the Wenatchee Wild, finishing with 61 points in 66 games. In total, Friesen had 146 points in 240 WHL games.

Prior to his time in the WHL, Friesen spent two seasons in the CSSHL with RHA Winnipeg, playing for their U15 Prep and U16 Prep teams. In 66 CSSHL games he would record 14 goals and 20 assists.

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The tournament will take place April 9-20, 2025 in Czechia and will see Team Canada in Pool A with the U.S.A., Finland, Czechia and Switzerland.

Among the 25 players selected include Emily Clark, Hannah Miller, Chloe Primerano, Danielle Serdachny and Micah Zandee-Hart.

Clark spent two seasons with the Okanagan Hockey Academy (OHA) Female U18 Prep season. The Saskatoon, SK forward would go on to play five seasons in the NCAA with the University of Wisconsin, recording 70 goals and 76 assists in 147 games. She spent last season and the current one in the PWHL with the Ottawa Charge, recording 11 goals and 19 assists in 47 games.

Internationally Clark has represented Canada since 2011. To this date she has two U18 Women’s Worlds gold medals, one bronze, four silver and three gold medals at the Women’s World Championships. She has captured a silver medal at the 2018 Olympics and a gold medal a the 2022 Olympics.

Miller played for the OHA Female U18 Prep team in 2012/13 and 2013/14. She would go on to spend four season in the NCAA with St. Lawrence University, recording 43 goals and 80 assists for 123 points in 124 games.

The North Vancouver, BC forward would spend five years playing professional hockey overseas in China, Sweden and Russia before being selected by the Toronto Sceptres 74th overall at the 2023 PWHL Draft. In the last two PWHL seasons she has recorded 37 points in 46 games, including 23 points in 23 games this season.

This will be Miller’s first time playing for Team Canada at the National level and will mark her return in the red and white. She previously represented Canada at the 2013 and 2014 U18 Women’s World Championships, capturing gold both years. Miller would then go on to represent China internationally, including at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Primerano made her National Women’s team debut at just 17 years old earlier this fall. The University of Minnesota freshman represented Team Canada at the 2024 U18 Women’s World Championships, earning MVP, Best Defender, Tournament Allstar and Leading Scorer honours, setting the record for most points by a defender at one U18 Women’s Worlds (16) and most points by a Canadian at one U18 Women’s Worlds. This summer she was named to the Canada Women’s U18 team that competed against the United States for a three-games series from August 14-17, 2024.

Primerano became the the first female-skater ever selected in a CHL Draft when the Vancouver Giants selected her in the 13th round, 268th overall at the 2022 WHL Draft. In just two seasons in the Female U18 Prep division with RHA Kelowna the North Vancouver, BC defender graduated from the CSSHL as the most successful student-athlete in women’s history. Her 105 career assists are most all time among Female U18 Prep skaters while her 164 career points rank 1 back of the all-time record. Her 59 career goals are fourth most all-time, and most among defensemen, giving her the all-time career lead among defensemen in assists (105), goals (59) and points (164). During the 2024/25 CSSHL season Primerano set the Female U18 Prep single season record, among all skaters, with 35 goals, 54 assists and 89 points in just 29 games to earn her second straight CSSHL Female U18 Prep MVP Award.

In 34 NCAA games this season as an underage true freshman, Primerano had 5 goals and 26 assists.

Selected second overall at the 2024 Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) Draft, by the Ottawa Charge, Serdachny spent two seasons in the CSSHL with the Pursuit of Excellence (POE) Female U18 Prep team. She joined the program in 2017/18, finishing third in team scoring with 46 points. The following year she would finish second in team and league scoring with 58 points, bringing her CSSHL career total to 104 points in 49 games. That year she would also represent Team Canada at the World Women’s U18 Championship, tallying four points and being named as a ‘Top 3 Player on Team’, helping Canada capture gold.

The Edmonton, AB forward made the jump to the NCAA in 2019/20 with Colgate University. In 5 seasons with Colgate she finished with 238 points in 180 games. Her 61 points in 2023/24 were fifth among NCAA skaters while her 71 points in 2022/23 led all NCAA players. During her NCAA career she would be named a NCAA First Team All-American twice.

Serdachny scored the overtime winner in the Gold Medal game for Team Canada at the 2024 Women’s World Championships. To go along with her 2024 gold medal she has a 2023 silver medal and a 2019 gold medal at the U18 Women’s Worlds.

This season Serdachny has 2 goals and 5 assists in 23 PWHL games with Ottawa.

Zandee-Hart spent four seasons with OHA from 2011-2015. The Victoria, BC defender has a U18 gold and silver medals, to go along with a World Championship bronze, silver and gold, and a 2022 Olympic Gold medal.

She would play four seasons in the NCAA with Cornell University, recording 17 goals and 70 assists. Zandee-Hart joined the New York Sirens of the PWHL in 2023/24, tallying 3 assists in 19 games. This season she has 1 goal and 8 assists in 24 PWHL games with New York.

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The Blue Jackets drafted the Fort St. John, BC netmidner in the second round, 60th overall at the 2024 NHL Draft.

Gardner spent five seasons in the Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú (CSSHL) with RHA Kelowna. He joined the program in 2018/19, playing 20 U15 games for the program, which at the time was still called Pursuit of Excellence (POE). He returned to POE in 2019/20, playing 16 U15 Prep games. The following COVID-19 shortened season with RHA Kelowna, he would play two U15 Prep games.

In 2021/22 he would make the jump to RHA Kelowna’s U18 Prep team, posting a 2.98 GAA, .914 SV% and 14-3-1 record, leading to the Saskatoon Blades selecting him in the third round, 53rd overall at the 2021 WHL Draft. He would return to the RHA Kelowna U18 Prep team the following season, going 9-5-1 with a .926 SV% and 3.16 GAA.

Gardner would begin his WHL career with the Blades in 2023/24, posting a 21-5-0 record with a 1.91 GAA, .927 V% and 4 shutouts. Both his 1.91 GAA and .927 SV% were a WHL best.

This season Gardner has went 22-12-4 with a .911 SV%, 2.83 GAA and 3 shutouts with the Blades.

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Morris was recently named a Canada West Women’s Hockey First Team All-Star with the University of British Columbia. In 28 games this season the Maple Ridge, BC defenseman tallied 7 goals and 10 assists. Last season Morris would be named a Canada West Women’s Hockey First Team All-Rookie after posting 4 goals and 12 assists in 23 games with UBC.

Priort to her U SPORTS career, Morris spent five seasons in the Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú (CSSHL) with Delta Hockey Academy. Joining the program in 2018/19, Morris would suit up in 104 Female U18 Prep games, recording 16 goals and 35 assists.

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With 114 points in 49 games, Cristall leads the WHL in scoring. In 13 games in February Cristall tallied 11 goals and 24 assists for 35 points.

Cristall spent three seasons in the CSSHL with St. George’s, joining the Vancouver, BC program in 2018/19. In 30 U15 Prep games that season he would tally 25 goals and 27 assists, finishing fourth in team scoring with 52 points. The following U15 Prep season Cristall would lead his team with 43 goals, 37 assists, and 80 points in 27 games. His 43 goals were tops amongst all U15 Prep skaters while his 80 points trailed only future Buffalo Sabres forward Zach Benson (86). At the conclusion of the season the Rockets would select Cristall with the eighth overall pick at the 2020 WHL Draft.

The Vancouver, BC forward would split the 2020/21 COVID-19 shortened season with the Rockets and St. George’s U18 Prep team. In 4 U18 Prep games he would tally 4 points, while adding 5 points in 14 WHL games. In 2021/22 Cristall would finish third in team scoring with 69 points in 61 games.

During the 2022/23 season Cristall represented Team Canada at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup, finishing with six points in five games as Canada captured a gold medal. That season he would lead the Rockets with 95 points in 54 games, putting him sixth in WHL scoring. The Washington Capitals would go on to select Cristall in the second round, 40th overall at the 2023 NHL Draft.

Cristall would play the 2023/24 season with the Rockets, and start of the 2024/25 season with them before being traded to Spokane. In 239 career WHL games Cristall has 151 goals, 241 assists and 392 points.

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Canada West Women’s Hockey – First Team All-Stars

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Selected first overall at the 2023 WHL Draft, Rudolph played 13 games for the Raiders in January. To kick-start 2025 he would go on a 12 game point streak, tallying 2 goals and 13 assists. In his rookie WHL season, the Lacombe, AB product has 4 goals and 22 assists along with a +10 rating in 42 games.

Rudolph joined the CSSHL for the 2022/23 U15 Prep season, leading all defensemen with 50 points in 30 games. He would add 12 more points in 5 playoff games, including the OT winner in the finals as NAX captured their first ever CSSHL U15 Prep Western Championship. At the conclusion of the season Rudolph was named the CSSHL U15 Prep Top Defenseman.

The following U18 Prep season he would record 22 goals and 37 assists in 28 games with NAX, earning CSSHL U18 Prep Top Freshman and Co-MVP Honours, while being named a CSSHL U18 Prep (Prairie Division) First Team All-Star.

This season he would also play five games for Team Canada White at the U17 World Hockey Challenge, helping Canada White capture a Gold Medal.

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Jomha recently won a silver medal with Team Canada at the 2025 FISU World University Games. In five games the Edmonton, AB forward finished with three goals and one assist. Jomha was joined on Team Canada by former CSSHL teammate Alex Spence, who had one goal and one assist in the tournament.

Jomha originally joined the CSSHL in 2016/17 with the Northern Alberta Xtreme (NAX). In three seasons with NAX she would record 46 points in 59 games, including 24 points in 21 games during the 2017/18 season.

In 2019/20 she would join Edge School, finishing third in team scoring with 45 points, while her 30 assists were a team high. Edge would go on to capture their first ever CSSHL Female U18 Prep Western Championship that spring. Jomha returned to Edge for the following COVID-19 shortened season, producing eight points in three games.

In 2021/22 she would graduate to Mount Royal University, posting 61 points in 75 games during her first three U SPORTS seasons. This season Jomha leads her Mount Royal team with 12 goals and 23 points in 19 games. Her 12 goals rank fifth among all U SPORTS skaters, while her 23 points has her in a tie for seventh.

With four points this past weekend, Jomha became the all-time points leader for Mount Royal University.

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