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Goalies: Martin Gerber, Daniel Manzato, Tobias Stephan
Defensemen: Goran Bezina, Felicien Du Bois, Timo Helbling, Steve Hirschi, Roman Josi, Mathias Seger, Julien Vauclair

Forwards: Andreas Ambuhl, Damien Brunner, Thomas Deruns, Paolo Duca, Marcel Jenni, Romano Lemm, Thibaut Monnet, Nino Niederreiter (earlier gallery), Martin Pluss, Kevin Romy, Ivo Ruthemann, Paul Savary

Coaches: Sean Simpson, Manuele Celio, John Fust
General Manager: Peter Luthi, Team Leader: Marcel Enkerli
Physiotherapist: Markus Hammerer, Doctor: Johannes Keel, Staff: Lukas Hammer

The ten Patty Kazmaier Award finalists were announced on March 2, 2010. More info on each player can be found at http://PattyKaz.com Players with an asterisk have a gallery in a previous blog post on the original nominee list.

Vicki Bendus, Mercyhurst
*Emmanuelle Blais, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Bailey Bram,Mercyhurst College
Felicia Nelson, St. Cloud State University
Sarah Parsons, Dartmouth College
*Kelly Paton, UNH
Noora Räty, University of Minnesota
Jesse Scanzano, Mercyhurst College
*Florence Schelling, Northeastern University

Britni Smith, St. Lawrence University

Was waiting to finish the Syracuse University Orange at Boston College Eagles 10/9/09 full gallery to post the Motherwells.  BC has had a lot of brothers follow each other to the Heights, but they aren’t limited to brother pairs.  Senior forward and alternate captain Matt Lombardi followed his sister Michelle (2003-07) to BC (unfortunately never shot her)

and this year Ashley Motherwell has followed her brother Brett (2005-08).
 

While preparing my Syracuse roster for photo captions, I noticed a few familiar names.  Syracuse also has a sister following her brother onto the ice with Kelly Dimmen whose brother Jeff plays defense (and wears the A) for the University of Maine Black Bears. (Naturally I started this post before I finished editing and didn’t realize that Kelly Dimmen did not play in the game - oops.)
 

Syracuse also has a pair of twins on the team, freshman forwards Isabel and Talia Menard.

The Menards aren’t the only twins on the Syracuse roster, forward Stefanie Marty is the twin sister of Northeastern’s Julia Marty (earlier blog gallery).  Stefanie has also played for Switzerland.

 

Finally, another familiar looking name sent me to Google where I discovered that Keeta Koalska is the second cousin of former Minnesota Golden Gopher Matt Koalska, not a sister.

I’ll be shooting Boston College women’s hockey later this week.  They are missing Molly Schaus and Kelli Stack this season as they are playing on a Team USA tour in preparation for the 2010 Olympics.  Canada has also already put together a team of players that their final Olympic team will come from.  Last week’s Union at Northeastern game (full gallery) was only missing Northeastern’s head coach Dave Flint who is with Team USA, but there were two potential 2010 Olympians on the ice – Swiss players Florence Schelling and Julia Marty of Northeastern who were members of the Swiss team at the 2006 Olympics.  New York Times article on Schelling.