Cote Crowned NCAA Statistical Champion
Shana Cote has added another first to the Suffolk women’s hockey program as the graduate student forward ended the season as a NCAA Division III Statistical Champion, attaining the feat in face off wins.
NCAA DIVISION III WOMEN'S HOCKEY FINAL STATS
INDIANAPOLIS – Shana Cote has added another first to the Suffolk women's hockey program as the graduate student forward ended the season as a NCAA Division III Statistical Champion, attaining the feat in face off wins.
Over 28 games played, the Broomfield, Colorado product compiled 378 triumphs at the face off dot, winning 64.2 (378-589) percent of her face offs, 14 more than any other DIII skater.
The accomplishment is not only a first for Suffolk but stands out in the Commonwealth Coast Conference record books as well. Cote, the two-time CCC Player of the Year, is the first skater to capture a NCAA Statistical Champion crown in an offensive category under the league's umbrella, which began in 2020-21. She is the second-ever student-athlete in the conference's short tenure to grab the national distinction joining Endicott's Bailey Theiben, who topped the goals against average category in 2021-22.
Cote, a three-year captain, led Suffolk to a historical season in 2022-23 that featured the program's first regular-season and postseason league titles en route to the program's first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament. The First-Team All-CCC selection provided a conference-best 28 points evenly divided between goals (14) and assists (14) to the 18-8-2 Rams' 2.89 goals per game offense.
Over the course of her five-year career in a blue-and-gold sweater, Cote wrote and rewrote the Rams' record book. On top of winning nearly 1,000 face offs, she graduates as the program's all-time leader in every statistical category with 123 points on 59 goals and 64 handouts.
Cote is one of just two players to skate in all of Suffolk's 115 games, alongside her co-captain Madison Duff. More impressive, the pair are the only hockey players, male or female, to garner All-America status from the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) in Suffolk University annals. Cote collected the highest honor with a second-team spot in 2021-22, while Duff took home the a second-team feat this season.