Alex Carpenter - Boston College
Senior Forward; North Reading, Massachusetts
Carpenter racked up 10 points in just three outings in the month
of December, pushing the Eagles to a 3-0-0 month and 20-0-0 on
the season. Her six goals and four assists propelled her squad to
the unanimous No. 1 ranking in the country and broke the all-time
Hockey East point-scoring record. She finished the month with a
team-high plus-eight rating and converted on 40% of the shots
she fired on net. Her four goals Dec. 10 at Syracuse was the first
four-goal game for Boston College since Dec. 1999 and, in the
same contest, became the Eagles' all-time goal-scoring leader
with 117 strikes. Currently, she boasts 67 career goals and 69
career assists in Hockey East play for 136 points and sits atop
the historical Hockey East table.
Runner-up: Jonna Curtis, UNH (Jr., F; Elk River, Minn.)
Kyra Smith - New Hampshire
Goaltender; Littleton, Colorado
Smith started all five contests for New Hampshire in December,
registering four wins to go along with a 2.36 goals against average
and a .905 save percentage. She won Pro Ambitions Rookie of
the Week honors Dec. 7 after stopping 37 of 39 shots sweeping
Merrimack. Overall on the month, Smith kicked out 95 shots she
faced in her five outings and helped backbone the Wildcats to
their current fourth-place seeding within Women's Hockey East
entering 2016.
Runner-up: Paige Voight, MC (Fr., F; St. Michael, Minn.)
Sarah Foss - Northeastern
Junior; North Reading, Massachusetts
Foss claimed a win in each of the two games she appeared in for
the Huskies in the final month of 2015, emerging victorious in two
contests at Vermont. The junior netminder stopped 49 of the 51
shots she saw in those two outings for a .961 save percentage
and a scant 1.00 goals against average.
Runner-up: Katie Burt, BC (So., G; Lynn, Massachusetts)