ANNVILLE, Pa. – The Lebanon Valley College women's ice hockey team is set to begin its pursuit of a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) title during the 2025-26 season. The Flying Dutchmen are scheduled to compete in 25 games this winter, including 12 home matchups at Hersheypark Arena. 

Lebanon Valley will look to build on a 2024-25 season in which the team posted its best record in program history, going 17-8-1 overall. The program also earned a spot in the inaugural Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, reaching the MAC Semifinal. The Dutchmen are ranked second out of eight teams with 41 points in the 2025-26 MAC Women's Ice Hockey Coaches' Preseason Poll. 

"We have similar expectations as far as what we can do as a team," Head Coach Matt Yingst, the 2024-25 MAC Coach of the Year, said. "We have more depth than we had last year. So, I think that we can be very successful again, depending on whether we're able to stay healthy. I think the expectation going into this year is to still be one of the top four teams in the conference."

Lebanon Valley's roster features 21 returning players and 11 first-years. Junior forward Anna Dale and junior goaltender Mia Frisoni, a pair of 2024-25 All-MAC First Team selections, lead the list of returnees. 

Dale is returning after a sophomore campaign in which she was named the program's first CCM Hockey/American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) All-American by being chosen to the Second Team East, while earning LVC's first MAC Offensive Player of the Year award. She ranked first in NCAA Division III with 1.04 goals per game and five short-handed goals. Dale also led the MAC with 40 points, 1.54 points per game, 27 goals, five game-winning goals, and three hat tricks. Additionally, the forward set single-season program records in points, goals, game-winning goals, short-handed goals, and shots on goal with 144. Frisoni is coming off a dominant sophomore year as well, in which she ranked first in the nation with a save percentage of .962. The goaltender also led the conference in save percentage while ranking second in saves with 555, second in shutouts with five, second with a goals against average of 1.29, and third in saves per game with an average of 30.83. Additionally, Frisoni set the single-season program record in shutouts while tying the record with eight wins. 

Senior forward Tiffany Anderson is another key contributor coming back for Lebanon Valley this winter, following a strong junior year in which she was 11th in the nation with 327 faceoff wins. In the MAC, she also ranked first in faceoff wins, fourth with a faceoff winning percentage of .604, sixth in assists with 16, sixth in assists per game with 0.62, and seventh in points with 24. The Dutchmen will look to sophomore forwards Addison Taylert, Leela Nemani, and Sky Campanile to make an impact offensively as well. On LVC, Nemani ranked fourth with 17 points, Campanile was fifth with 15 points, and Taylert tied for sixth with 14 points. Additionally, junior forward Maeghan Howson is returning after a sophomore season in which she ranked second on the team with 10 goals while tying for third with two game-winning goals and tying for sixth with 14 points. Howson was also third in the MAC with a faceoff winning percentage of .607, while ranking 10th in goals.

Defensively, the Flying Dutchmen will rely on juniors Norah McCauliffe and Laura Radford, who played an integral role in Lebanon Valley posting a conference-best 1.19 goals-allowed per game average last winter. McCauliffe will look to build on a season in which she led the MAC with 55 blocks, while Radford is coming off a year in which she tallied 23 blocks. 

The Dutchmen will begin the 2025-26 season on Friday, Oct. 31, at 3 p.m., against Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pa. Lebanon Valley will then host the Cougars for its home opener on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 2 p.m. at Hersheypark Arena. 

LVC will begin its MAC slate on Friday, Nov. 7, at 4 p.m., at Neumann University in Aston, Pa., for the first matchup of a home-and-home stretch. Another key weekend on the schedule for LVC is when the program hosts the defending MAC Champions, Wilkes University, on Friday, Jan. 30, at 5 p.m. at Hersheypark Arena, before taking on Arcadia University on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 1:40 p.m. in Colmar, Pa. 

The Dutchmen will close out the regular season on Friday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m., against Alvernia University for Senior Day at Hersheypark Arena. Before the game, the team will recognize Anderson and senior forwards Chelly Wolff, Lilly Newcomer, Hannah Annunziata, and Mallory Burdick. LVC's full schedule can be found here. 

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