ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell women’s hockey goaltender Lindsay Browning has been named one of three finalists for the ECAC Hockey’s prestigious Mandi Schwartz Student-Athlete of the Year Award.
Browning is a graduate student, having already earned her bachelor’s degree in 2021, graduating cum laude with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. She’s also a member of the Naval ROTC program, and volunteers at SPCA Tompkins County, Feed My Starving Children, “Do it for Daron”, and Salvation Army Adopt a Family.
Browning has found tremendous success on the ice during her career with the Big Red. She was named the Ivy League Player of the Year, the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Year and a Patty Kazmaier Top-10 Finalist after setting a Big Red single-season record with a .952 save percentage over the 2019-20 season. Browning is on pace to set a program record for the lowest career goals against average, entering the final weekend of the regular season at 1.49, and her 18 career shutouts are tied for second-most in program history. And in 2020, she became the program’s first goaltender to be named an All-American.
The Mandi Schwartz Student-Athlete of the Year award is presented annually to an ECAC Hockey women’s player in honor of former Yale University student-athlete Mandi Schwartz (1988-2011). Mandi passed away in April 2011, but continues to inspire the entire hockey community through the memory of her courageous battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
All 12 of ECAC Hockey’s programs select one nominee for the award. That field was then pared down to three on Wednesday, with Browning joining Quinnipiac senior Lexie Adzija and Union senior Grace Heiting as the other finalists.
The winner is scheduled to be unveiled during ECAC Hockey Championships weekend, which runs from March 4-6. Cornell will be looking to lay claim to the honor for a second straight year after Devon Facchinato ’21 won it during her senior season.
(Cornell Women’s Hockey Photo)
