PRINCETON, N.J. — For the first time in over two decades, a Yale Bulldog, Elle Hartje, was named the Ivy League Player of the Year when the league’s awards were announced Wednesday morning. Yale swept the other two major awards as well, with Jordan Ray earning Ivy League Rookie of the Year and Mark Bolding being a unanimous selection for Ivy League Coach of the Year.
 
Hartje helped lead Yale to an unbeaten record in Ivy League games this season while dually helping Yale achieve its best overall record in program history as the second-ranked Bulldogs are 28-2-1 overall heading into this weekend’s ECAC Hockey Semifinals. Hartje was a full ice player for Yale, tying for the Ivy League lead with 17 points, coming in the form of 6 goals and 11 assists, and ranking tied for fifth in the conference with 18 blocked shots.
 
Ray, too, played an integral part in Yale’s Ivy League success this season with the freshman notching 13 points in 10 Ivy League games. She registered 5 goals and 8 assists, leading all Ivy League freshman in scoring and assists, while ranking tied for second in goals.
 
Bolding was a unanimous selection for Ivy League Coach of the Year after his Bulldogs posted a 9-0-1 record in Ivy League games during the 2022-23 season. Yale had a +30 goal differential in those 10 games, scoring 42 goals while conceding 12, and posted nearly double as many shot attempts than their opponents, 419 to 213. Bolding’s squad was especially dominant on the penalty kill, with Yale opponents going 1-for-23 during Ivy League competition, only Princeton’s 3-for-38 coming close to the Bulldogs’ mark on the year.
 
Yale had an Ivy League-high of three players be named First Team All-Ivy, with Hartje being joined by defender Emma Seitz and goaltender Pia Dukaric. Hartje and Dukaric were the only two unanimous First Team All-Ivy selections. Dukaric played all but 21 minutes in net for Yale, stopping 195 of 207 shots faced, a league-best .942 save percentage, and posting a league-leading 1.23 goals against average. The rest of the All-Ivy First Team consisted of two Cornell skaters in Gills Frechette and Alyssa Regalado, Harvard forward Anne Bloomer, and Princeton forward Sarah Fillier. Frechette tied Hartje for the Ivy League lead in points while leading the league with 13 assists.
 
Yale again paced the selections for Second Team All-Ivy with another three Bulldog student-athletes being recognized, Anna Bargman, Claire Dalton, and Vita Poniatovskaia. Bargman tied for the Ivy League lead with 7 goals, part of her 15 points in conference play. Izzy Daniel was Cornell’s representative on the All-Ivy Second Team, while Harvard’s Kyra Willoughby and Brown’s Kaley Doyle completed the squad.
 
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Elle Hartje – F, Yale
 
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Jordan Ray – F, Yale
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Mark Bolding – Yale*
 
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
Gills Frechette – F, Cornell
Anne Bloomer – F, Harvard
Sarah Fillier – F, Princeton
Elle Hartje – F, Yale*
Pia Dukaric – GK, Yale*
Alyssa Regalado – D, Cornell
Emma Seitz – D, Yale
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Izzy Daniel – F, Cornell
Claire Dalton – F, Yale
Anna Bargman – F, Yale
Kaley Doyle – GK, Brown
Kyra Willoughby – D, Harvard
Vita Poniatovskaia – D, Yale
 
HONORABLE MENTION
Jordan Ray – F, Yale
Alex Pellicci – GK, Harvard
Cameron Sikich – D, Brown
Grace Dwyer – D, Cornell
Mariah Keopple – D, Princeton
 
* unanimous selection
^ expanded due to ties in the voting