2015-16 Women's Ice Hockey

12 Janelle Ferrara

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Rivers
  • Hometown Winthrop, Mass.

Biography

2015-16 (Senior): ECAC Hockey All-Academic ... Elected captain by her teammates ... Honorable mention All-Ivy League ... Academic All-Ivy League ... Earned three team awards: Bingham Award for leadership, Richard H. Brodhead ''68 Award as  player "who has contributed significantly to the success of the team while excelling academically" and MVP award ... Was Yale''s nominee for ECAC Hockey''s Mandi Schwartz Student-Athlete of the Year Award ... Led team in goals with a career-high 12 -- twice as many as she had scored in any previous season ... Tied for third on team in points (12-8-20) ... Incurred only one penalty all year ... Scored at least one point in 10 of Yale''s final 14 games ... Scored twice in final 5:06 to help Yale to come-from-behind 4-3 win vs. then-No. 5 Quinnipiac Oct. 31 ... Appeared in all 29 games.

2014-15 (Junior): ECAC Hockey All-Academic (Commissioner''s Level recognition) ... Led team and established career high in assists with 19, tied for the fourth-best single season total in Yale history ... Finished tied for third on team in points (3-19-22) ... Had season-high three points (1-2-3) Oct. 25, 2014 in 5-2 win vs. Providence ... Had six-game scoring streak Jan. 24 to Feb. 13, 2015 ... Ended season with 42 career assists, tied for 13th on Yale''s all-time list ... Incurred just one penalty, and went nearly a year without a penalty (from Feb. 28, 2014 to Jan. 30, 2015) ... Appeared in all 31 games.

2013-14 (Sophomore): ECAC Hockey All-Academic ... Appeared in all 32 games ... Led team in assists with 17 ... Second on team in points (6-17-23) ... Tied for team lead with a pair of game-winning goals ... Led team with a +7.

2012-13 (Freshman): ECAC Hockey All-Academic ... Tied for second on team with six goals ... Tied for second on team with three power play goals ... Tied for third on team with six assists ... 12 points ... Hat trick Nov. 2 vs. Dartmouth ... Appeared in 28 games.

USA Hockey: Attended player development camps at ages 15, 16 and 17.

Before Yale: National Champions with Assabet Valley in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2012 … Captained Rivers School ice hockey team as a senior … First team Division II New England Girls Prep All-Star … All-ISL for ice hockey junior and senior year … Led Rivers with 53 points as a senior… Had 143 career points at Rivers … Scored 100th career goal for Rivers shorthanded in game at Fenway Park … Captained field hockey team as a senior … All ISL for field hockey senior year … New England Class C Champions in field hockey.

Notes: Assisted with planning of White Out for Mandi fundraiser for the Mandi Schwartz Foundation ... Member of committee that planned annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Yale ... Summer intern for Ferrara Contracting, writing up job proposals and designing a new system to calculate job estimates efficiently ... Father, Frank, played baseball and hockey at RPI … Mother, Lisa, played basketball at Bentley … Sister, Nicole, is an ice hockey player at Syracuse … Played on a line with current Yale teammate Jamie Haddad for Assabet.

Why Yale? “I chose Yale because it is not only a place where I can excel in academics, but has a hockey program with a facility, coach and team with whom I can see myself playing the sport I love.”

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2012-13First Year

    F
    5'6"
    12
  • 12

    2013-14Sophomore

    F
    5'6"
    12
  • 12

    2014-15Junior

    F
    5'6"
    12
  • 12
    C

    2015-16Senior

    F
    5'6"
    12
    C