Hockey Humanitarian Award reveals nominees for 2025
The nominees for the 2025 Hockey Humanitarian Award were announced Tuesday, highlighted by seven athletes from the DI women's game.
Fourteen NCAA players were named as nominees for the 2025 Hockey Humanitarian Award, the Award’s Foundation announced Tuesday. Among those 14 nominees are seven women who are up for the 30th anniversary award at the end of the Division I season.
The award is given out each season to honor student-athletes and their contributions to their community through volunteer work and to their team on and off the ice.
Honored this year on the women’s side are four players from the WCHA, two from Hockey East, and one from the ECAC. Five of the original 14 nominees will be named finalists for the award next month.
WCHA honorees include graduate student forwards Clara Van Wieren (Minnesota Duluth) and Audrey Wethington (Minnesota), senior forward Makenna Webster (Ohio State), and senior defender Kendra Fortin (Bemidji State). From Hockey East are defenders Raice Szott (Merrimack, graduate student) and Keri Clougherty (Boston College, senior). The lone ECAC honoree is graduate student forward Sarah Thompson (St. Lawrence).
Happy to share that Keri Clougherty is a 2025 Hockey Humanitarian Award nominee! pic.twitter.com/XLdovhTsHe
— Boston College Women's Hockey (@BC_WHockey) January 14, 2025
Both Thompson and Szott were finalists for the award last season as well.
Szott, a nominee for a third-straight year, has consistently supported various volunteer organizations around Merrimack’s campus in North Andover, Mass. The now-captain of the Warriors launched the Merrimack College Women’s Hockey Community Service Committee, as spoken about in the feature published during the finalist round last year by the Hockey Humanitarian Award Foundation.
Thompson, who played last season in the AHA with Syracuse, launched a non-profit organization called Sticks Together three years ago. The goal of the organization is to support the growth and development of hockey in disadvantaged areas around the globe. For more on the organization, and on the rest of Thompson’s work to grow the game, the Award foundation also released a feature on her a season ago. The forward has played 23 games for the St. Lawrence Saints as of Jan. 15.
The award will be presented in St. Paul, Minn., during the DI Men’s Frozen Four weekend on April 11th. For more on the award, be sure to visit www.hockey humanitarian.org.
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