AUG. 8 – Denisha Cartwright, the first Maverick to qualify for Olympic women’s track and field competition, ended her Olympic bid Thursday morning. After finishing 19th in Wednesday’s opening round (top 18 advanced) Cartwright was first out of the blocks in her repechage round heat and had a visible lead when she clipped the second hurdle. She finished the race in eighth place. Cartwright, the winningest athlete in Maverick history, holds 30 all-America honors, 8 national championships and is the 2024 D2 Honda Women’s Athlete of the Year.
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April 14 – Minnesota State head coach Shari Dickerman and assistant coach, Alli Altmann, earned the silver medal at this year’s IIHF Women’s World Championships after Team USA suffered a 6-5 loss in overtime to Canada in the championship game. Dickerman, who was an All-American for the Mavericks in goal during her playing career from 2000-2004, was named the fifth head coach in Minnesota State history this past March. Altmann, who played for the Mavericks from 2008-12 and concluded her first year as an assistant coach on the Maverick staff and \served as Team USA’s goaltending coach.
MARCH 18 – Minnesota State senior captain Sam Morton from Lafayette, Colo., has signed a one-year, two-way contract with the National Hockey League’s Calgary Flames organization. His contract will begin with the 2024-25 season. He will be joining the Wranglers (AHL) on an amateur tryout contract (ATO) for the remainder of the 2023-24 campaign. Former Maverick Walker Duehr (2017-22) plays on the Flames’ current NHL roster.
Maverick Men’s Hockey senior captain Sam Morton was named CCHA Player of the Year. The announcement on Friday, March 15, marks an exceptional season where Morton leads first in goals, first in shots, first in faceoff wins and first in power-play goals.
Minnesota State’s Abel Christiansen (hurdles), South Milwaukee, Wisc., took home NSIC Track Athlete of the Week honors and Onyekachi Ukaobasi (jumps), Geneva, Ill., won NSIC Field Athlete of the Week in a clean sweep of weekly awards announced Monday, Feb. 12. This marks the second time this year that the Mavericks have claimed both NSIC Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors.
Paul Allan, who retired Dec. 16 as senior deputy director/internal operations after 37 years with Maverick athletics, is the new director of communications for the U.S. Hockey League.
Adding to his 2022 Hobey Baker Award as the nation’s top college men’s hockey player, Maverick goalie Dryden McKay concluded is college career as USA Hockey’s 2022 Jim Johannsen College Player of the Year. McKay has signed a two-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Maverick sophomore sprinter Denisha Cartwright heads into the NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Championships ranked among the nation’s fastest NCAA Division II sprinters. The Nassau, Bahamas, native earned her fourth NSIC Track Athletic of the Week this outdoor season following the Deb Schulz Open at Minnesota State Mankato. She is also a member of the Mavericks 400-meter relay team which holds this spring’s top time in Division II.
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