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Hannah Brandt named a Top-3 Finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award!

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Gopher junior forward Hannah Brandt was named a top-three finalist for the 2015 Patty Kazmaier Award. The Patty Kaz is given to the best Division I women's college hockey player in the country. This is the second year in a row that Brandt is a top-3 finalist, after losing the award to Clarkson's Jamie Lee Rattay last season.

Brandt won her second consecutive WCHA Player of the Year Award on Wednesday, and is second in the nation in both points (67) and goals (31), third in assists (36), and led the country in in plus/minus (+65). Brandt has also been busy off the ice, volunteering her time with Hope Kids, the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, Windom Area Youth Hockey and Special Olympics Minnesota and has volunteered with Gophers Strike Out Cancer, Feed My Starving Children, the Maplewood Care Center, and various local youth hockey associations.

Brandt will have two tough opponents in her other two finalists, both of whom played in the Sochi Olympics in 2014. Boston College junior Alex Carpenter leads the nation l in points (75), goals (33), assists (42) and points per game (2.27). She also is number one in the country in game winning goals and faceoff percentage. Carpenter played for Team USA in Sochi last year.

Boston University senior Marie Phillip-Poulin played for Team Canada in Sochi in 2014. She is ranked seventh nationally in points (47), points per game (1.62) and faceoff percentage (0.625), eighth in goals (22) and ninth in assists (25).

The 2015 Patty Kazmaier award will be handed out an a brunch ceremony at McNamera Alumni Center in Minneapolis on March 21st in conjunction with the Women's Frozen Four. Tickets to the award ceremony are available here:

Congrats to Hannah, and hopefully she will be the third Gopher to win the Patty Kaz!