BEMIDJI, Minn. – The Bemidji State University Women's Hockey team gets back on the road and travels to No. 1 University of Wisconsin to face another top-five opponent in Western Collegiate Hockey Association play.
 
The Beavers (5-16-3, 2-15-1 WCHA) face-off against the Badgers (21-1-2, 15-1-2 WCHA) for the second time this season and begin their league series Saturday at 1:00 p.m., from LaBahn Arena Game two will be held Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
 
Each game will be streamed exclusively online on B1G+ with play-by-play provided by UW Athletics. A Beaver Radio Network broadcast is also available for each game online at www.beaverradionetwork.com or on the radio at 94.3 FM The Legends.
 
Bemidji State Notes

• Bemidji State hits the road for the first of three remaining road trips in the regular season.
• The Beavers face the Badgers for the second time this season and potentially their first-round opponent in the WCHA Playoffs.
• Wisconsin swept the Beavers in their last series to open the 2025-26 season at Sanford Center.
• The Beavers hope to end a four-game losing streak and bounce back from being swept by No. 3 University of Minnesota last weekend at home.
• 10 WCHA games remain before the WCHA Playoffs begin Feb. 27.
• Sophomore Morgan Smith leads the team with 17 points (9g-8a) through 24 games.
• She has four points (3g-1a) over the last six games and recorded a point in each game of the Beavers' series with Minnesota.
• Junior captain Hailey Armstrong paces the Beavers with 11 goals in 24 games which is tied for 14th in the WCHA.
• She reached double-digits in goals for the second time in her career and eclipsed her previous career high of 10 set last season.
• Redshirt Sophomore Isa Goettl is third on the team with 13 points (6g-7a) and leads the team with a three-game point streak (1g-3a) totaling four points during that span.
• Junior Kate Johnson leads the team with 11 assists and is fourth on the team with 12 points.
• The Beavers' goals per game average of 1.75 this season is the best since the 2019-20 season (1.92).
• Junior Carmen Bray leads the Beavers' blueline with six points off six assists.
• Sophomore Kaitlin Groess has started the last seven games and leads the team with 16 starts.
• She is 4-11-2 with a 3.81 goals against average and .882 save percentage.
• Senior Ava Hills follows with eight starts and is 1-5-1 with a 4.23 goals against average and .894 save percentage.
• Bemidji State's penalty kill has been excellent as of late and allowed its first power-play goal since Nov. 22 in game one of their series with Minnesota.
• The Beavers' penalty kill ranks sixth in the WCHA with a penalty-kill percentage of at .821 (46-56).
• Armstrong and Goettl are tied for the team lead with three power play goals while the BSU power play is seventh in the WCHA at .116 (8-69).
• The Beavers scored three power-play goals last weekend, the most in a series this season.
• Hailey Armstrong's three game-winning goals this season and is tied for fifth most in the WCHA. She is two shy of tying a program career record from most game-winning goals.
• Bemidji State leads the WCHA and is 13th nationally with 345 blocked shots.
• Freshman defender Katy Comstock leads the WCHA with 51 blocked shots despite her 5-foot-0-inch stature.
• Junior Raeley Carney leads the team and is 10th in the WCHA with a .557 face-off winning percentage.
• Sophomore Morgan Smith's 491 face-offs taken are the third most in the WCHA.
• The Beavers are in year two under the leadership of head coach Amber Fryklund.
• She has brought in 11 newcomers to the green and white including transfers Carmen Bray (St. Cloud State) and Elly Klepinger (Minnesota).
• Junior Hailey Armstrong captains the Beavers during the 2025-26 season and will be assisted by Smith and senior Raeley Carney.
• Eight freshmen join the team in Senja Leeper (Minnetonka HS), Lola Macuiba (Shawnigan Lake School), Kasey Senden (Hill-Murray HS), Addie Morris (Benilde-St. Margaret's), Paige Smith (Edmonton Jr. Oilers), Maddie Kaiser (Balmoral Hall Prep), Katy Comstock (Warroad HS) and Ashlyn Hazlett (Minnetonka HS).

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Located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic programs with NCAA Division I men's hockey membership in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and women's hockey membership in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while its 13 NCAA Division II programs hold membership in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
 
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