Jaques, Muzerall Pick Up WCHA Postseason Honors
3/2/2022 3:00:40 PM | Women's Ice Hockey
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State women’s hockey picked up another two conference honors this week with Sophie Jaques earning the league’s Outstanding Student-Athlete Award while Ohio State head coach Nadine Muzerall was voted the WCHA Coach of the Year.
Jaques, who garnered the WCHA Defensive Player of the Year award on Tuesday, is a senior set to graduate in May with a degree in civil engineering. She is a 3.75 GPA student and is a four-time OSU Scholar Athlete and a three-time WCHA All-Academic Team and Academic All-Big Ten honoree. As a result of her success in the classroom, Jaques was awarded a fellowship for graduate studies at Ohio State in civil engineering. The fellowships are competitively awarded to candidates who show exceptional potential for graduate study.
On top of her record-breaking season on the ice for the No. 2 Ohio State women’s hockey team and incredible success in the classroom, Jaques is an undergraduate teaching assistant for the university’s College of Engineering. In that role, she assists a professor in conducting their introduction to civil engineering materials course and explains and facilitates lab and review sessions. The 2020 and 2021 Arthur Ashe Jr. Award winner is just the second Buckeye to earn the conference’s Outstanding Student-Athlete award.
In her sixth season at the helm of the Buckeyes, Muzerall earns her third WCHA Coach of the Year nod after winning the award in 2018 and 2020. This season, Muzerall has led the Buckeyes to a program-record 27 wins and the team’s fourth 20+ win season of her tenure. The Buckeyes have set numerous program records this season, including a team-best WCHA wins (21), season goals (161) and season assists (270). She has helped the team to its fifth Final Faceoff appearance in as many years.
#GoBucks
