Northeastern Huskies celebrate third straight Women’s Beanpot title, 20th overall before record TD Garden crowd

Northeastern Huskies celebrate third straight Women’s Beanpot title, 20th overall before record TD Garden crowd

The Huskies won the women’s championship for the third straight year and 20th time overall, shutting out Boston University before 13,279 fans at TD Garden. The crowd was the largest to ever watch a women’s hockey game in New England—breaking last year’s Women’s Beanpot record of 10,633—and the fifth largest in women’s college hockey history.

Olympic gold medalist Madison Mailey: “I’m living the athlete’s dream”

Olympic gold medalist Madison Mailey: “I’m living the athlete’s dream”

Madison Mailey, DMSB‘18, didn’t try rowing until her junior year of high school. “I was a dancer for 10 years,” she said. “It gave me a pretty good background of working hard.”

What she didn’t know at the time was that not really “fitting in” with the dance world – “I was so tall,” she said – gave her the opportunity to fall in love with rowing, and eventually become an Olympic gold medalist.