The Brown Bears (19-7-3) come into this season with a combination of experience and youth, as the team includes seven players who played in every game last season.

The team will be able to rely on its defense.

In goal, the team will mostly likely start junior Pam Dreyer, who was first in the nation in goaltending last year with a .941 save percentage. She also posted seven shutouts and a 1.61 goals against average. She earned second team All-Ivy honors and an Honorable Mention All-ECAC. Sophomore Katie Germain will act as the teams’ reserve goalie. Captain Kim Insalaco, one of the nation’s top forty players, will lead the defense at the blueline.

The offense should round out this year’s team evenly, with the help of junior Kristy Zamora and the speedy Courtney Johnson. Three freshmen will also vie for spots on the front line.

Brown will be a stronger competitor this year, after finishing fourth in the league in 2000-2001. The team is well rounded with a great deal of depth in every position.

4. Harvard

See page B-4.

5. Princeton

Princeton (13-13-3) hopes to improve upon its .500 season in 2000-2001 with the addition of several freshmen to make up for the graduation of three seniors last year. This young team is still learning to skate together, but looks to be more powerful than in the past.

Offensively, the Tigers will have to make up for the fact that would-be senior Andrea Kilbourne will be out of school for the 2001-2002 academic year due to her selection to the 2001-2002 United States Hockey National team. After leading the Tigers in scoring for the past three years, she will be severely missed.

Sophomore Gretchen Anderson and others will be relied on to make up for the loss.

Junior Sarah Ahlquist will steady the defense in the net. In front of her at the blueline, seniors Wanda Mason and Aviva Grumet-Morris will work to stop the opposing offensive line.

The Tigers will suffer this year from the loss of Kilbourne, but the team still has enough depth to compete to earn a spot in the middle of the division at the end of the year.

6. Cornell

Despite losing only three seniors to graduation last year, Cornell (10-18-1) has one of the largest groups of freshman it has had in many years. Seven newcomers look to add depth to the Big Red’s team.