WAHA Girls Festival

With catching parts of many games over the first day I was able to put together a list of players I liked from the WAHA Girls Festival. This wasn't easy as they didn't even hand out rosters of their players, and the online rosters didn't have numbers and had lots of kids that were replaced as they were at the Chicago Showcase.

Team Green Bay did not have a lot of offensive prowess, and only defenseman Maxine Blohowiak stood out for them.

Team Naga-Waukee was loaded with talent. Forwards Karissa Anderson, Kayte Holtz, Kim Tess-Wanat and Brianna Decker all looked very good. Decker was probably my favorite player on offense at the tournament. Ashley Hietpas and Nikki Maier anchored the blue line for Team Naga-Waukee.

Team Onalaska really struggled when I saw them play. Kellie Dineen and Devon Ellena were their best forwards while Tanis Klinger, Kate Moorhouse and Amanda Robinson had lots of chances to look good stopping other teams' attacks.

Team Eau Claire had the tournaments' best goaltender, Lea Jondal. Erin Stenseth played well at forward, and Hannah Turnbull, sister to new U of Wisconsin recruit Josh Turnbull, looked good at defense. Arika Krinke from Hudson played on this team and solidified her position in my mind as the forward least likely to contribute anything to a team defensively.

Lidsey Noffke and Brittany Bauknecht stood out offensively for Team DC Everest. I felt they had four good defensemen in Kelly Jaminski, Joan Schumitsch, Michelle Wanserski and Stephanie Wolf who was very offensive minded and vocal.

Team Verona had many good players including defensemen Emily Groth, Cori Imobersteg, Laura Seefeldt and Alexandera Ehlert Vaness. Offensively Trisha Lloyd looked good as did Kristen Selbach, although Selbach plays almost no defense. Stephanie Slinde also showed flashes. I'm assuming she's the sister of former Badger Jeff Slinde.