3 Hawkeyes Named to Big Ten Preseason Honors List

IOWA CITY, Iowa – College of Iowa subject hockey seniors Anthe Nijziel, Lokke Stribos and Esme Gibson had been named to the Huge Ten Preseason Honors Checklist, it was introduced Wednesday by the Huge Ten workplace. It’s the third straight season Nijziel and Stribos have been preseason honorees.

Final season, every of the trio began each sport, main the Hawkeyes to an outright Huge Ten common season title and to an NCAA Elite Eight look. Iowa completed the season 17-3 general.

Nijziel returns to anchor Iowa’s protection because the two-time reigning Huge Ten Participant and Defensive Participant of the Yr. The Eindhoven, Netherlands, native additionally earned NFHCA first-team All-America honors and was the NFHCA West Area Participant of the Yr in 2021. Nijziel began all 20 video games, logging 1,119 minutes and she or he performed the period of 15 contests, ending with 5 objectives and 4 assists.

Stribos earned NFHCA first-team All-West Area and second-team All-Huge Ten honors in 2021 after scoring eight objectives and tallying two assists. The Belgium native was additionally a key member of a Hawkeye protection that posted an NCAA-best 11 shutouts a season in the past.

Gibson garnered her first profession All-America honors, incomes third-team laurels a season in the past. The midfielder began all 20 video games, scoring six objectives, together with two game-winners, and tallying two assists. The England native was additionally a second-team All-Huge Ten and a Huge Ten All-Event crew choice.

The Hawkeyes, ranked fifth within the Penn Monto/NFHCA preseason ballot, open the season with the ACC/Huge Ten Problem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Iowa will face No. 20 Wake Forest on Friday and No. 2 North Carolina on Sunday at Truist Discipline.