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WNY Native Sisti Named Finalist For COTY

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Mercyhurst women’s ice hockey head coach Michael Sisti has been named a Finalist for the 2019-20 CCM/AHCA Women’s Division I Ice Hockey Coach of the Year award.

To be a finalist for the award, one must either be voted the Coach of the Year in their conference or be ranked in the Top Four of this year’s Pairwise Rankings.

Sisti has won the award once in 2005. He is the only College Hockey America coach to win the award.

He won the College Hockey America Coach of the Year award this season after leading the Lakers to a 21-10-5 overall and 13-4-3 conference record. The Lakers finished the season with a 2-1 overtime win over Robert Morris to win the CHA Championships. Mercyhurst was also named the CHA Regular Season Champions.

Other finalists include, Doug Derraugh (Cornell), Dave Flint (Northeastern), Brad Frost (Minnesota), Mark Johnson (Wisconsin), Nadine Muzerall (Ohio State) and Tom O’Malley (Sacred Heart).

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Janet has been covering women's hockey for over 35 years. Along with a 38 year career in Public Relations and over 40 years photographing sports, she found a passion in women's hockey. Her initial story was on the founding of the Niagara University D1 program, she expanded to collegiate and youth and was active in the founding and promoting of the WNY Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Federation. When Professional Women's Hockey hit the ice she was there, one of the first to release the story in WNY. Along with her husband, Randy, people comment that if there's hockey, the Schultz's are there!