COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A total of 22 national champions were crowned across the country at the 2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Youth, Girls, High School and Women’s National Championships. Title game results are below for all completed levels.
Still to come, the national sled hockey championship will be decided April 10 and the adult nationals will be contested later this month.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Youth Tier I National Championship | Anchorage, Alaska
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
14U Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minn.) Boston Junior Eagles (Mass.) 3-1
Note: Shattuck-St. Mary’s total of 30 goals scored was nearly double that of any other team at the event.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Youth Tier I National Championship | San Jose, California
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
16U Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minn.) Victory Honda (Mich.) 2-1
Note: Second consecutive 16U national championship for Shattuck-St. Mary’s.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
18U Pittsburgh Penguins Elite (Pa.) Culver Academy (Ind.) 3-0
Note: First-ever Youth Tier I national championship for a Pittsburgh-based team.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Girls Tier I National Championship | Blaine, Minn.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
14U East Coast Wizards (Mass.) Chicago Mission (Ill.) 4-0
Note: Third consecutive Girls Tier I 14U national championship for a Massachusetts-based team; Assabet Valley (2014), Boston Junior Eagles (2015) and East Coast Wizards (2016).
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
16U Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minn.) Minnesota Elite Grey (Minn.) 2-1
Note: Fourth straight Girls Tier I 16U title for SSM.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
19U Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minn.) Minnesota Elite Black (Minn.) 2-1 (OT)
Note: SSM goaltender Aerin Frankel (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.) stopped a penalty shot in overtime to maintain a 1-1 tie.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Youth Tier II 14U National Championship | Charlotte, N.C.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
14U 1A Team Wyoming (Wyo.) Junior Monarchs (N.H.) 5-4
Note: First-ever USA Hockey national championship for Wyoming-based team.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
14U 2A Sno-King (Wash.) Wonderland Wizards (Conn.) 9-0
Note: Founded in 1964, Sno-King allowed only five goals throughout the entire 2016 tournament and scored nearly twice as many goals (46) as any other team.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
14U 3A USA Eagles (Mich.) St. Lawrence Thunder (N.Y.) 4-3
Note: Third straight Tier II 14U 3A national championship for a Michigan-based team, and second title in three seasons for the USA Eagles.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Youth Tier II 16U National Championship | Wayne, N.J.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
16U 1A Team Wyoming (Wyo.) Oklahoma City Oil Kings (Okla.) 4-2
Note: Team Wyoming claimed its first-ever and second national championships in 2016, winning the Youth Tier II 16U 1A and Youth Tier II 14U 1A titles.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
16U 2A Maine Moose (Maine) Armstrong Arrows (Pa.) 7-4
Note: Fifth national championship for the state of Maine and the first in the Youth category since 2011.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
16U 3A Oakland Junior Grizzlies (Mich.) Chesterfield Falcons (Mo.) 2-1 (OT)
Note: Second Youth Tier II 16U 3A title in three years for Oakland Junior Grizzlies.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Youth Tier II 18U National Championship | Amherst, N.Y.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
18U 2A Delaware Ducks (Del.) NE Edge (N.H.) 2-1 (OT)
Note: Second-ever national championship for a Delaware-based team.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
18U 3A Southern CT Stars (Conn.) St. Clair Shores (Mich.) 3-1
Note: Southern Connecticut allowed one goal or fewer in three of its six games.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Girls Tier II National Championship | Burlington, Vt.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
14U East Coast Wizards (Mass.) Chicago Bruins (Ill.) 2-1
Note: The East Coast Wizards swept USA Hockey’s Girls 14U national championships, winning both the Tier I and Tier II titles.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
16U East Coast Wizards (Mass.) Alaska All-Stars 2-1
Note: East Coast Wizards allowed only one goal throughout the entire tournament, rotating goaltenders Kelly Lavelle (Needham, Mass.) and Caroline Kukas (Peabody, Mass.).
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
19U Vermont Shamrocks (Vt.) CT Northern Lights (Conn.) 2-1 (OT)
Note: All three Tier II Girls national championship games were decided by 2-1 scores, as were two of the Tier I Girls national championship games.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey Women’s Senior A, B & C National Championship | Blaine, Minn.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
Senior A Minnesota McGovern’s (Minn.) Madison (Wis.) 4-3 (OT)
Note: Second consecutive Women’s Senior A national championship for the Minnesota McGovern’s.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
Senior B HoneyBaked (Mich.) Carolina Aces (N.C.) 2-1 (OT)
Note: First-ever Women’s Senior B national championship for HoneyBaked.
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
Senior C Team Cleveland (Ohio) Midwest Mustangs (Mo.) 6-2
Note: First-ever Women’s Senior C national title for an Ohio-based team.
2016 Toyota-USA Hockey High School National Championship | Reston, Va. (March 21)
Level Champion Runner-Up Score
Pure Wayzata (Minn.) Edina (Minn.) 2-1 (OT)
Combined J.W. Mitchell (Fla.) Boulder/Monarch (Colo.) 8-7 (OT)
