Championship Central
Check out the pictures, tales, movies, and extra from the boys’s ice hockey workforce’s first nationwide championship.
Luke Tchor ’27 was voted the 2025-26 NESCAC Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. The junior is the third participant in convention historical past to obtain the distinction in again-to-again seasons and the second Hamilton participant (Gus Katsuras ’06 in 2005 and 2006). Tchor was additionally selected a CCM/American Hockey Coaches Association Men’s NCAA Division II-III All-American for the 2025-26 season. The ahead, who was voted to the second workforce within the East Region by males’s head coaches in NCAA Divisions II and III, was a member of the primary workforce in 2025. In addition, Tchor was a finalist for the Sid Watson Award for nationwide participant of the yr.
Six Continentals have been named to the all-NESCAC males’s hockey groups. Tchor and John Wojciechowski ’28 have been named to the primary workforce, and Jackson Krock 26, Devon de Vries ’27, Connor Thue ’29, and Aksel Reid ’27 have been named to the second workforce.
“Personally, I don’t have to vary something based mostly on my opponent. My job is fairly straightforward. I simply cease the puck.
Coach Rob Haberbusch collected two nationwide awards. He was chosen the 2026 U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Division II-III Men’s Ice Hockey Coach of the Year and the 2026 III HockeyNews.com Men’s Coach of the Year. He was additionally named NESCAC Coach of the Year for the second time in his profession. Haberbusch guided the Continentals to their first NCAA title and an general document of 23-5-2. The 23 wins are essentially the most in a season by a Hamilton males’s hockey workforce. He has a profession document of 186-135-40 in 14 seasons at Hamilton. The Continentals finished the 2025-26 season at No. 1 in the final USCHO.com Men’s Hockey Top 15 poll launched on Monday, March 30. Hamilton, which was ranked sixth within the earlier ballot on March 9, final topped the nationwide rankings through the 1988-89 season. The Continentals obtained 17 of the 20 first place votes and completed with 297 factors.
NESCAC honors
A complete of 130 Hamilton scholar-athletes earned NESCAC Winter All-Academic honors for sustaining a cumulative GPA of at the least 3.50 and assembly different eligibility necessities.
Eight Continentals have been chosen to the 2026 NESCAC Winter All-Sportsmanship Team, representing every varsity winter sport. The workforce consists of one scholar-athlete from every establishment for every sport the convention sponsors. They embrace:
- Max Bulawka’26, males’s hockey
- Katie Allen ’26, girls’s hockey
- Jacob Shulman ’26, males’s squash
- Lily Spencer ’26, girls’s squash
- Max Freishtat ’26, males’s basketball
- Maggie Kernodle ’29, girls’s basketball
- Ethan Olivo ’26, males’s swimming and diving
- Melissa Scala ’26, girls’s swimming and diving
Women’s swimming and diving
Four Hamilton girls have been named 2026 College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America Division III all-America choices. Chloe Lan ’28, Jade Matthias ’26, Carolyn Miner ’27, and Paige Wielgus ’28 made the second workforce for the 200-yard freestyle relay. The Continentals have completed within the high 16 on this occasion at three of the final 4 NCAA championships.
The athletes have been acknowledged for his or her performances on the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships at IU Indianapolis’ IU Natatorium in March. The high 16 finishers in all particular person occasions and relays obtained all-America recognition.
Men’s swimming and diving
Nathaniel Taft ’27 earned All-America honors in two occasions after ending fifth within the comfort closing (13th general) for the 50- and 100-yard freestyle on the 2026 NCAA Championships.
Women’s basketball
Guard Kendall Harris ’27 and ahead Taylor Lambo ’26 have been chosen to the 2026 D3hoops.com Women’s All-Region Team. Both have been voted to the third workforce in Region 1. A complete of 16 athletes have been acknowledged in that area, which incorporates colleges in New England plus Hamilton. Both have been additionally named to the 2026 girls’s basketball all-NESCAC workforce. Harris made the primary workforce and was one of 10 guards honored. Lambo was positioned on the second workforce and was one of simply three forwards to obtain all-NESCAC recognition.
“I’m excited to see how we are able to push one another within the off season to return again and compete at a better stage.
Women’s hockey
Women’s hockey ahead Lydia Bullock ’26 and defender Cuora Sullivan ’26 have been named to the 2026 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Women’s Hockey All-Conference Team.