{"id":2455069,"date":"2020-02-26T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-girls-19u-hockey-team-wins-third-straight-state-championship\/"},"modified":"2020-02-26T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T05:45:00","slug":"aspen-junior-hockey-girls-19u-team-wins-its-third-straight-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-junior-hockey-girls-19u-team-wins-its-third-straight-state-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Junior Hockey girls 19U team wins its third straight state championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.4451219512195\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-321662-720\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/hockey-atd-022620-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/hockey-atd-022620-1-1024x614.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy photo | Aspen Junior Hockey's 19U A girls hockey team won their third straight state championship over the weekend, finishing the season with a perfect 25-0 record.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Aspen Junior Hockey&#8217;s 19U A girls hockey team won their third straight state championship over the weekend, finishing the season with a perfect 25-0 record.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/hockey-atd-022620-1-1024x614.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Aspen Junior Hockey's 19U A girls hockey team won their third straight state championship over the weekend, finishing the season with a perfect 25-0 record.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/hockey-atd-022620-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/hockey-atd-022620-1-1-1024x614.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy photo | Aspen Junior Hockey's 15U A team won the Colorado Girls Hockey League state championship over the weekend in Denver.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Aspen Junior Hockey&#8217;s 15U A team won the Colorado Girls Hockey League state championship over the weekend in Denver.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/hockey-atd-022620-1-1-1024x614.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Aspen Junior Hockey's 15U A team won the Colorado Girls Hockey League state championship over the weekend in Denver.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/aspen-girls-19u-hockey-team-wins-third-straight-state-championship\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/aspen-girls-19u-hockey-team-wins-third-straight-state-championship\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Make it three straight state titles for Aspen Junior Hockey\u2019s 19U girls team, with the latest championship even coming with a perfect record. This past weekend, the Leafs capped off an unblemished 25-0 season by winning the double-elimination state tournament at Edge Ice Arena in Denver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Paired with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/leafs-19u-girls-hockey-team-defends-msghl-title-goes-undefeated\/\">last season\u2019s 26-0-1 record that ended in a second straight state title<\/a>, Aspen\u2019s 19U A team \u2014 which is the de facto girls high school team \u2014 has gone 51-0-1 over the past two seasons. This was the first season, and therefore first championship, of the Colorado Girls Hockey League, which replaced the Mountain States Girls Hockey League this winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cJust to go undefeated is an accomplishment in itself,\u201d said Kirk Golden, the team\u2019s head coach the past two seasons. \u201cTo do it two years in a row just shows how consistent they were. They put in the hard work. They deserved it. These games didn\u2019t come easy, but they earned it. They put in the hard work and the result followed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen seemingly cruised through the state tournament, including a 6-2 win over New Mexico in the final game. Laney Martens led the team in scoring over the weekend with 13 points (eight goals, five assists) while goalie Sammie Jaworski only allowed four goals over the tournament to finish the season with a .976 save percentage in league play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/aspen-junior-hockey-girls-hope-to-continue-recent-success-with-19u-teams-this-winter\/\">This year\u2019s team included five seniors<\/a> in Martens, Jaworski, Charlotte Howie, Hayley Heinecken and Jaelin Nakagawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cOne of the reasons why they had so many goals was they were very unselfish with the puck,\u201d Golden said. \u201cThat was kind of the main thing. Then they just had chances and buried on them. Being unselfish with the puck and spreading it around makes it really hard to cover and them being really good skaters and shooters, it\u2019s tough for teams to stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While the single A team\u2019s season is a wrap, the majority of those players also play on the 19U AA team, a regional team that has the potential to qualify for the national tournament. Golden co-coaches the Aspen AA team alongside Keith Howie. They will compete in their state tournament this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Many of the current AA girls were part of past national-qualifying teams, such as the 14U AA team in 2017 that started it all. The 16U AA team has gone to nationals the past two seasons, although AJH did not field a 16U AA team this winter as most of those players moved up to the 19U level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The future of girls hockey in Aspen looks bright beyond the current 19U team, considering the 15U single A team also won the CGHL state championship over the weekend. They entered the tournament as the No. 3 seed and knocked off No. 1 seed Vail en route to a win over Boulder in the championship game. Aspen\u2019s Kylani Nakagawa led the team and tournament in points. The 15U team was coached by M.E. Cohen, a former AJH standout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe got a good hockey culture going and the girls seem to love to play the game,\u201d Golden said. \u201cUs as coaches try to pass on that passion for the game, then it doesn\u2019t seem like hard work for them. They are more enjoying themselves out there and having fun with the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:acolbert@aspentimes.com\">acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/aspen-girls-19u-hockey-team-wins-third-straight-state-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen Junior Hockey&#8217;s 19U A girls hockey team won their third straight state championship over the weekend, finishing the season with a perfect 25-0 record.Courtesy photo Aspen Junior Hockey&#8217;s 15U A team won the Colorado Girls Hockey League state championship over the weekend in Denver.Courtesy photo Show CaptionsHide Captions Make it three straight state titles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 13:27:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}