BUFFALO, New York – College Hockey America (CHA) has announced its 2018-19 regular season awards and the Penn State women's hockey team has four award recipients.
Sophomore forward Natalie Heising was named to the All-CHA First Team, senior defenseman Kelsey Crow and junior goaltender Jenna Brenneman were All-CHA Second Team honorees, and freshman defender Jessica Adolfsson was named to the All-CHA Rookie Team Tuesday evening at the CHA Tournament Banquet.
Heising's first-team honor follows up her CHA Freshman of the Year and second team honor in 2017-18. The Wayzata, Minnesota native led the Nittany Lions with 26 points and 14 goals on a team-high 137 shots.
Heising scored four times on the power play and is tied for the all-time program mark in power play markers with 14 through just two seasons. Heising currently leads all goal scorers in the conference over the past two seasons with 33.
Crow has now been named to an All-CHA team twice now after being a member of the first team a season ago. Crow led the Nittany Lions with 14 assists this season while also blocking a team-high 77 shots.
A three-year captain for Penn State, the Minnetonka, Minnesota native has led the Nittany Lions in blocked shots the past two seasons while regularly lining up against opponents' top-scoring lines.
Brenneman has had one of the best individual seasons for a Penn State goaltender in program history. In her program-record 32 games played (all starts), Brenneman holds a 1.76 goal against average, a mark that ranks eighth in country.
The Eagan, Minnesota native also sports a .926 save percentage and her 12 wins are one shy of tying the program single-season record. She has also had four shutouts this season, tied for the best mark in a single season by a Penn State netminder.
Adolfsson has emerged as one of the conference's top young blue liners from both an offensive and defensive standpoint. She has four goals and seven assists, including three goals scored on the power play. Adolfsson is also second on the Nittany Lions with 53 blocked shots.
The Linkoping, Sweden native also played for Team Sweden at the Four Nations Cup in November 2018.
Heising, Crow, Brenneman, Adolfsson and the rest of the Nittany Lions begin the 2019 postseason with a matchup against RIT in the first round of the CHA Tournament tomorrow, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the HarborCenter.
