Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Senior CLASS Candidates Named
20 candidates represent all six Division I conferences.
Twenty players from across the country with track records of excellence on and off the ice have been named candidates for the 2017-18 Senior CLASS Award.
The candidates represent 20 schools and all six Division I conferences. Included in the group are the nation’s top two active career scorers (Robert Morris’s Brady Ferguson and Notre Dame’s Jake Evans) and three returning first-team all-conference selections (Ferguson, Bemidji State’s Michael Bitzer and Bowling Green’s Mitch McLain).
An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the award honors achievement in four areas: community, classroom, character and competition. The Senior CLASS Award encourages student-athletes to use their platforms in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
The 20 candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists in February. A winner will be selected from those finalists by a nationwide voting system of media, coaches and fans, and will be announced at the 2018 Frozen Four in St. Paul.
| 2017-18 Senior CLASS Award Candidates | ||
| Name | Position | School |
| Dylan Abood | D | Air Force |
| Louie Belpedio | D | Miami |
| Michael Bitzer | G | Bemidji State |
| Tim Davison | D | Wisconsin |
| Andrew Dorantes | F | Ferris State |
| Jake Evans | F | Notre Dame |
| Brady Ferguson | F | Robert Morris |
| Carson Gatt | D | Michigan State |
| Karson Kuhlman | F | Minnesota Duluth |
| Sam Lafferty | F | Brown |
| Alfred Larsson | F | Merrimack |
| Merrick Madsen | G | Harvard |
| Mitch McLain | F | Bowling Green |
| Brady Norrish | D | RIT |
| Judd Peterson | F | St. Cloud State |
| Tyler Pham | F | Army West Point |
| Sam Piazza | D | Michigan |
| Austin Poganski | F | North Dakota |
| Ryan Schmelzer | F | Canisius |
| Jared Wilson | D | Rensselaer |