TEAM GLACIER 2003-03

Marie is Team Glacier's speed forward, usually the first to the puck and the last to tire. A former college basketball player, Marie began her hockey career seven years ago with several TG teammates on the Chicago Ice. She is inspired and encouraged in the sport by both of her hockey-playing children: 15-year old Quinn, a AAA midget minor, and 12-year old Adelle, the only girl on her peewee gold boys' team. An elementary and college level teacher/instructor, Marie is the former drummer of Chicago's own Skapone, a local ska band, and plays on coed ice and roller hockey teams.

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Laura Costabile		17	D	1	0	0	0	0

Though she was sidelined with an ankle injury early in the season, Laura is an original member of Team Glacier and a powerhouse defender. After watching her brothers play hockey in south suburban Oak Lawn, she started playing ice hockey when she was 8 years old. After six years of boys' house league teams and all-star programs, she played for two years on the boys' varsity team at Oak Lawn Community High School. While still in high school, Laura began playing women's hockey for fun at Southwest Ice Arena with teammates Sherry Dobson, Monette McKinney and Sue O'Connor on the X-Factor. Currently, a full-time nursing student at Moraine Valley Community College, Laura enjoys running, roller blading, hanging out with friends and spending time with her boyfriend.

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Kathy Cronkhite		11	F	25	6	5	11	0

Kathy joins teammate Jet Hall as Team Glacier's Big Ten field hockey players turn ice hockey players. After coaching field hockey for New Trier and Homewood Flossmoor high schools and a 10-year stint coaching high school age prot»g»s in the US Field Hockey developmental program, her hockey interests took a turn toward roller hockey. In 1994, she played for a team out of Chicago run by Team Glacier teammate Andrea Meenahan, Chicks with Sticks, that eventually won the national women's inline hockey title two years running. After a reconstructive knee surgery, she finally took to the ice and played for the Chicago Flash, Inferno and now, Team Glacier. In her fourth year on the ice, she's finally found the perfect mix of team unity and coaching and is a proud representative of Team Glacier. Kathy is engaged to a wonderful man and will be married in the summer of 2003.

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Sherry Dobson		30/68	D	29	0	5	5	24

Sherry answered an ad in a newspaper that was looking for players to join the now defunct Chicago Rebels to start her hockey career. While on the Rebels, she met TG goalie Sue (Gonzalez) O'Connor and they played together for 5 years on the Rebels. The pair decided to form a new team called the X-Factor and were joined by this year's TG teammates Laura Costibile and Monette McKinney. Together on the X-Factor, they made a mark on the women's hockey landscape for three years. Last season, after the X-Factor disbanded, Sherry played on the Chicago Inferno under coach Tim Kaspar. She has now joined some of the best hockey players in Illinois on Team Glacier and continues to play on various men's hockey teams. Sherry is a loan coordinator for Ameriquest Mortgage Company.

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Brenda Culver		9	F	30	10	13	23	11

Originally from Chicago's south suburbs, Brenda started playing hockey as a kid on frozen ponds in the winter with her cousins. As a high school standout athlete, her competitive nature eventually led her to organized ice hockey in 1995. Also an avid skydiver, our daredevil forward became a world record holder, participating in the world's largest all women's formation. The event was called Jump for the Cause and raised a half million dollars for breast cancer awareness. She also enjoys flying with her husband, Robbie, in their airplane. Brenda can be found in her spare time playing ball with her dog Quincy, feeding/watching wild birds in her yard and enjoying her favorite band, Primus. Brenda is a Dental Hygienist at Great lakes Naval Base in the northern suburbs.

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Mary Gutowski-Hazzard		77	F/D	15	0	0	0	1.5

Mary has been playing hockey since college when her friend told her about a new club starting up on the University of Illinois campus. It sounded really fun, borrowed some malfitting equipment and hasn't looked back in 13 years. She founded and managed the Chicago ICE and coached Lyons Township girls' high school team. These days, Mary enjoys her new role as a hockey-playing mom, allowing her to release her stress as a goon on the ice!! When she's not playing hockey for Team Glacier or her men's team, she balances a career as a sales rep and volunteers with her dog in an animal-assisted therapy program at a rehabilitation hospital. Oh, and she also enjoys a little time with her supportive, understanding husband!

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Jet Hall		19	F	25	5	7	12	0

Jet has competed in team sports since the age of 5. She was a three sport letter-winner in H.S. and went on to play varsity field hockey for Big Ten Champions, Northwestern University. Jet was inspired to try ice hockey after seeing the US Women "take gold" at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. In 1999 she met coaches Eric and Chad Schneider who patiently guided her through the process of learning how to play the sport that quickly became her favorite. After jumping from a beginner team to an "A" level team in her first season, Jet continues to enjoy the challenge of improving and working hard on her game. She is thrilled to be skating for Team Glacier and for hockey mentor, Eric Schneider. Jet lives in the city and owns a film/video production company.

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Jen Heppel		18	F/D	18	2	2	4	4.5

Jen's hockey career started way back in 1986 where, as a freshman at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, she played four years on the varsity squad then one year on the Boston University's club team. After college, her career took the front seat and hockey got left behind until 2001 when she resurfaced and played for Team Glacier's inaugural season, then called Team Complete. As an Associate Commissioner for the Big Ten Conference, Jen is pretty busy during hockey season with travel for both football and men's basketball. When not at an ice rink or with the bigwigs of the Big Ten, Jen spends her time with the two most perfect dogs in the world, Julius and Laverne, and her pals from TG.

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Andrea Johnson		5	F	28	13	11	24	16

Andrea is no stranger to ice hockey. Starting as a wee-tyke on the backyard rink, Andrea played in boy's leagues in Zion, IL until a family move took them to Michigan's Upper Peninsula at age 13. Once in the small town of Laurium near the Canadian border, she played on boys' teams till she joined the girls U19 Keweenaw Wings in Houghton. From there, she played for the Michigan Tech women's team while earning a computer science degree in December 2001. Upon graduation, Andrea got out of Dodge and headed for Chicago, playing the tail end of last season with the Frozen Snappers, with cousin Kelly Johnson. Now on Team Glacier, she looks forward to playing a high level of competition with fellow Snappers Brenda Culver and Cami Schoop and the rest of Team Glacier's quality players. She often spends time with her family of 14, refereeing ice hockey, or playing golf, softball, racquetball, and fishing.

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Pat Lee		6	F	23	1	1	2	1.5

Rebelling against her mother's dreams of having a figure skating daughter/son pair, both Pat and her brother (currently living in Manhattan) play ice hockey. Playing for the Chicago Ice, the Inferno and now Team Glacier, Pat brings a wealth of experience and speed to our forward line. Working for the City of Chicago's department of environment, Pat coordinates community gardening and job training programs and is involved putting in the flower boxes along streets and boulevards that decorate our city, among other headaches. In her spare time, she likes to bake and cook stuff then eat her creations, and would like to say Hi to Wellington.

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Marcie Lavoie		2	F	24	3	6	9	5.5

Marcie moved to Chicago from Colorado, where she began playing hockey 4 years ago, last spring. Now that she's living in the big city, she is working as a personal trainer and spending her free time playing darts and flag football with her friends, going out dancing, and frequenting the local bar scene. Marcie's goals are to have fun, be happy and play hockey!

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Monette McKinney		4	D	27	0	3	3	7

Monette's been on skates since she was four years old, but didn't start playing hockey until she was 24. Like many other Team Glacier players, once she tried ice hockey, she was hooked. Today, she's not only a key defender on Team Glacier, but also an ice hockey referee and schools one of our forwards in the intricacies of the perfect game of racquetball. In her spare time, Monette enjoys watching her boyfriend's band, Bad Monkey, play live shows, hanging out at her condo with the new electronic dart machine, and chilling with the TG girls. She's also relieved to say that she can still get up in the morning for her engineering job at Lucent Technologies after late weeknight practices 35 miles from home.

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Mollie McQuillan		10	D	23	2	2	4	13

Mollie remembers going to Minnesota North Stars games sitting in the best seats of the house, behind the penalty box in row 6 where her dad held season tickets for as long as she can remember. Nine years ago, she finally laced up a pair of her brother's hand-me-down skates and full equipment and took to the ice herself. When Minnesota became the first sanctioned girls' high school varsity hockey program in 1995, she was a member of St. Paul's Lady also earning all-state honors in soccer. While pursuing a pre-law degree at the University of Chicago, she played both varsity women's soccer and ice hockey and met futureTeam Glacier teammate, Jen Robinson. Currently, Mollie coaches both a girls' soccer travel team and a girls' ice hockey team stationed in Chicago's north side. With any free time she has left, she can summarize her love life as this: "I'm from the state of 10,000 lakes, and I've yet to find my true love in 10,000 dates."

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Andrea Meenahan		8	F	23	4	3	7	1.5

Andrea Meenahan is the cofounder of Chicks with Sticks Women's Inline Hockey Organization, winner of four National Championships. Andrea's extraordinary inline hockey career began while studying for her Master's degree in Biomedical Illustration at UIC. Though she claims to have taken up ice hockey to recruit more women to the world of inline, she's stuck around through six full seasons, including two with Team Glacier. When Team Glacier isn't dominating Andrea's athletic calendar, you might catch her mountain biking, snow or water skiiing, snowboarding or playing a round of midnight croquet with the rest of the Glacier girls. Andrea works as a freelance medical illustrator and graphic designer, and acts as creative director for forensic medical animation. Her artistic hobbies include interior design, art restoration and painting reproductions of old masters.

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L. Moss		15	D	30	2	2	4	13.5

Name		#	Pos	GS	W-L-T	Shots	Saves	Save%	GAA
Rita Nanni		31	G	9	1-6-2	230	190	.826	4.44

After sampling nearly every position in the game, Rita began perfecting the art of goaltending about 5 years ago. A lifelong NHL fan, she jumped on the opportunity to get in on the act when she discovered a team willing to take on a beginning player. She credits former Chicago Ice teammate Mary Gutowski with getting her started and putting her in touch with a terrific goalie coach. In addition to backstopping Team Glacier through its first two seasons, Rita plays with the big boys on a Chicago men's league team.

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Sue O'Connor		35	G	21	10-9-2	406	366	.901	1.90

If ice hockey didn't have a position like goalie, Sue probably never would have bothered playing. The first time she went to an ice hockey practice, she vowed that if she couldn't play in net, she wouldn't play at all. Low and behold, her first team ended up needing a goalie and her fastidious attention to the position started like a freight train. Nine years, 3 WCHL All-Star picks and 2 USA Women's National Tournaments later, she's made her mark as a blue chip goaltender and major addition to this year's Team Glacier roster. Sue stays sharp by playing with husband Bill on a men's team called The Shamrocks. When not on the ice, she's a newsroom assistant for Northwest Indiana's Times serving 120 communities and watching pro football with her husband.

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Jen Robinson		27	F	25	10	7	17	48

Jen is one of Team Glacier's many all-around athletes. Playing hockey for a season as a young kid in Pennsylvania, she took to the game once again while at the University of Chicago. In only her third season playing competitive women's hockey, she's a powerhouse on the ice and loves the game for the speed. While not on the ice, she works as a software developer, runs triathalons, mountain bikes, does freelance technical work and watches SportsCenter.

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Cami Schoop		44	F	29	3	4	7	16

Cami's early hockey experience mirrors that of many other Team Glacier members. As a native of Northwest Indiana, an area without ice rinks, she learned the game on frozen ponds and summertime tennis courts. After a period in the early 90's playing competitive women's and co-ed ice hockey, Cami took time off to pursue a college degree. Since then, she's gotten married, bought a house and works as a nuclear medicine technologist. Now back on the ice with Team Glacier, Cami spends her free time enjoying summer waterskiing and fishing with her husband.