Caroline Harvey gives Wisconsin hockey its seventh Patty Kazmaier winner
Wisconsin Badgers senior defender Caroline Harvery won the Patty Kazmaier Award for the nation's best player.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA – Caroline Harvey didn’t need the Patty Kazmaier Award to certify her greatness as a college hockey player. But the confirmation had to be nice. The senior defender became the seventh Wisconsin Badger to claim the honor for the best player in the college game Saturday, March 21.
Harvey is also the third defender to win the award. Harvey received the award during a live broadcast on the NHL Network. Penn State’s Tessa Janecki and Minnesota’s Abbey Murphy were also in the top three finalists.
While Harvey is just the third defender to win, one of her strengths is how much of a threat she is offensively. During the Badgers' overtime win against Penn State on Friday, she recorded her 200 th point, just the 10 th Badger to reach that milestone. This has been her best season.
Despite missing eight games while competing for gold-medal winning Team USA at the Olympics, she still has matched her point total of last season. This season Harvey ranks second in the nation with 1. 97 points per game and leads all defenders with 0.