The Ms. Hockey Award is an award given to the best female senior high school hockey player in the state of Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. The award is sponsored by the Let's Play Hockey newspaper, the Minnesota Wild

Minnesota Wild

The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....

, FOX Sports North and Reebok/CCM. The 2010 award winner is Bethany Brausen, a senior forward from Roseville Area High School.

Criteria

The following are all criteria for the award:

• Academic record
• Community service
• Coachability
• On-ice performance.

Selection process

The process of selecting the winner starts with the selection of the top 10 candidates in the state. This is reduced to five finalists, and then the panel selects a winner.

The panel responsible for selecting the winner consist of the following:

• High school coaches
• Division I and III college coaches from Minnesota and Wisconsin

Winners

Year	Player	School
2011	Karley Sylvester	Warroad
2010	Bethany Brausen	Roseville Area
2009	Becky Kortum	Hopkins
2008	Sarah Erickson	Bemidji
2007	Katharine Chute	Blake
2006	Allie Thunstrom Allie Thunstrom Allie Thunstrom has been a member of the United States national women's ice hockey team since 2010. She won a silver medal at the 2010 Four Nations Cup contested in St. John's, Newfoundland. She plays also for Minnesota Whitecaps, a professional women's ice hockey team in the Western Women's...	North St. Paul
2005	Gigi Marvin	Warroad
2004	Erica McKenzie	Hastings
2003	Andrea Nichols	Hibbing/Chisholm
2002	Ashley Albrecht	South St. Paul
2001	Renee Curtin	Roseville
2000	Krissy Wendell Krissy Wendell Krissy Wendell is an American women's ice hockey player. During the 2004-05 season, Krissy Wendell set an NCAA record for most shorthanded goals in one season with 7. After graduating from Minnesota, she had the career record for most shorthanded goals in a career with 16...	Park Center
1999	Ronda Curtin Ronda Curtin Ronda Curtin played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers ice hockey team. During her career, she was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, and she was selected to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association women’s team of the decade in the 2000s...	Roseville
1998	Laura Slominski	Burnsville
1997	Annamarie Holmes	Apple Valley
1996	Winny Brodt	Roseville

Let’s Play Hockey Goalie of the Year

Year	Player	School
2010	Kallie Billadeau	Hopkins
2009	Laura Bellamy	Duluth
2008	Alyssa Grogan	Eagan
2007	Ashley Nixon	Blaine
2006	Alannah McCready	Centennial
2005	Johanna Ellison	Colquet/Esko/Carlton
2004	Emily Brookshaw	Hill-Murray
2003	Robin Doepke	Chaska
2002	Amber Hasbargen	Warroad
2001	Jody Horak	Blaine
2000	Shari Vogt	River Lakes
1999	Katie Beauduy	Blaine

Olympians

The following Ms. Hockey winners went to represent USA Hockey

USA Hockey

USA Hockey is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee as the governing body for amateur ice hockey in the United States and is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The organization is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has...

 in the Winter Olympic Games.

Player	Event	Result
Krissy Wendell	Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics -Leading scorers:-Leading goaltenders:Goalkeepers with 40% or more of their team's total minutes.-Awards:Antero Niittymäki was named the most valuable player and received the Directorate Award for best goaltender of the tournament. Directorate Awards also went to Teemu Selänne for best forward, and...	Bronze
Gigi Marvin	Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held at Canada Hockey Place, home of the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks, and at UBC Winter Sports Centre, home of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport's UBC Thunderbirds. Twelve teams competed in the men's event and eight teams competed in the...	Silver