Gascon Named First Team 2024-25 CCM/AHCA Women’s Division I All-American
After a sensational sophomore campaign, University of Minnesota Duluth women's hockey goaltender Ève Gascon has been named a First Team 2024-25 CCM/AHCA Women's Division I All-American.
The award, announced Saturday by the American Hockey Coaches Association and chosen by the nation's Division I head coaches, marks just the fourth time in program history a Bulldog netminder has been named an All-American, and the second in four seasons. Gascon becomes just the third First Team AHCA All-American UMD goaltender, following in the footsteps of the great Kim Martin (2008) and Riitta Schaublin (2005). Emma Soderberg was a CCM/AHCA Second Team All-American for the Bulldogs in 2021.
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ascon's outstanding sophomore season already earned her Western Collegiate Hockey Association Goaltender of the Year honors, and she was a finalist for the HCA National Women's Goalie of the Year. Gascon is averaging 29.8 saves a game this season and had 12 times made 32 or more saves in a game, and six games of 40 or more stops. The native of Mascouche, Quebec was twice the WCHA's Goaltender of Month (December and September), December's HCA Goaltender of the Month, and was a three-time WCHA Goaltender of the Week. Gascon finished the season with a .942 saves percentage -- a tie for the seventh highest in a season at UMD, and her 896 saves ranks as the 7th most saves in a single season in program history -- just one stop from the sixth slot.
Gascon is now the 23rd UMD AHCA All-American, and is the 16th First Team selection.
In just two seasons as a Bulldog, Gascon already owns spots on career lists with the highest saves percentage (.944), seventh most saves (1,513), fifth-best goals against (1.75) and is in a tie for the sixth most shutouts (11). Gascon also became sixth goaltender in Bulldogs history to now have two or more career NCAA wins after her NCAA First Round effort on March 13. Thursday, Gascon was also named to her first Canadian National Team World Championship roster that will compete from April 9-20 in Ceske Budejovice, Czechia.
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