Curry College Colonels‘ freshman goaltender Shane Soderwall(30) unsurprisingly earns USCHO D3 Rookie Of The Year honors.
The 6’2″ 185 lbs. net minder wins it basically for the 98-save effort in the heartbreaking 4-3 double overtime tournament loss to the eventual winner of the whole thing.
He played 2 NAHL seasons with Anchorage Wolverines, putting up respectable numbers, but received a nice workload.
His game even came up from the lower junior level after a pair of NA3HL frames for the Algonquin, IL native, coming out of the Chicago Fury youth program.
No doubt, the 21-year old, who played 21 games with an outstanding 1.59 GAA and .949 SV% and his young team have even better hockey days ahead of them.
Well, let’s see, he goes 24-4 with a 1.45 GAA and a .945 SV%, pushing his team to a very first Frozen Four appearance for the D3 hockey crown.
He’s getting all kinds of scouted for a D1 commit and sure enough, for 2025/2026 he is heading to Clarkson University Golden Knights.