Men's Ice Hockey All-Ivy and Major Awards Announced
PRINCETON, N.J. -- After leading Cornell to their fifth Ivy League Championship in the last six seasons, goaltender Ian Shane was named the 2023-24 Ivy League Player of the Year and Mike Schafer was named the 2023-24 Ivy League Coach of the Year. Dartmouth’s standout defenseman CJ Foley was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year.
Shane was a unanimous choice for the league’s top honor after backstopping the Big Red to a 5-2-3 record in Ivy League play and has Cornell at 17-6-6 overall heading into postseason play. Shane, who posted a 17-4-6 record, led the country in goals against average with a 1.66 mark and was ninth nationally, while leading the Ivy League, in save percentage, at 0.921. The junior allowed more than two goals to an Ivy League opponent just once all season and posted two shutouts in conference play.
Foley totaled 5 goals and 15 assists in his first season with Dartmouth, ranking tied for third on the Big Green in scoring, while posting a team-best +7 rating. The freshman blue-liner was key to Dartmouth’s success this season, especially down the stretch, as he had points in 8 of Dartmouth’s last 10 games, a stretch in which the Big Green went 6-1-3 overall and 3-0-2 against Ivy League opponents.
Schafer was named Ivy League Coach of the Year for the fourth time in his career and first time since 2020 after he led his Big Red squad to the top of the Ivy League. Schafer orchestrated a masterful defensive plan, backstopped by Shane, as Cornell led the country in goals allowed per game at 1.86, a key factor in the Big Red winning the Ivy League Championship.
Shane and Foley were two of three unanimously selected All-Ivy First Team members, the other being Dartmouth’s other All-Ivy First Team representative, Luke Haymes. Haymes led the Big Green in scoring with 17 goals and 18 assists and ended the season on a nine-game point streak. Cornell also had two All-Ivy First Team members, Shane and forward Gabriel Seger. Seger had 12 goals and 23 assists on the season to lead the Big Red. Harvard placed a pair of players on the All-Ivy First Team in Joe Miller, who had 11 goals and 14 assists for the Crimson, and Ryan Healey, who nearly tripled his output from a year ago to record 9 goals and 12 assists as well as 29 blocked shots. The last member of the expanded All-Ivy First Team is Princeton defenseman Nick Carabin who had 17 points and 20 blocks on the year.
The All-Ivy Second Team was also expanded due to ties in the voting and four Ivy League member institutions were represented. Cornell, Brown, and Princeton each had two representatives while Yale placed goalie Jack Stark as its lone honoree. Cornell was represented by forward Jon Castagna and defenseman Ben Robertson, Brown placed forward Ryan St. Louis and defenseman Alex Pineau, and Princeton had a pair of forwards in Ian Murphy and Nick Seitz named to the All-Ivy Second Team.
Player of the Year: Ian Shane, Cornell*
Rookie of the Year: CJ Foley, Dartmouth*
Coach of the Year: Mike Schafer, Cornell
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
Luke Haymes, Dartmouth, F*
Gabriel Seger, Cornell, F
Joe Miller, Harvard, F
CJ Foley, Dartmouth, D*
Ryan Healey, Harvard, D
Nick Carabin, Princeton, D
Ian Shane, Cornell, G*
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Ryan St. Louis, Brown, F
Jon Castagna, Cornell, F
Ian Murphy, Princeton, F
Nick Seitz, Princeton, F
Alex Pineau, Brown, D
Ben Robertson, Cornell, D
Jack Stark, Yale, G
HONORABLE MENTION
Arthur Smith, Princeton, G
ACADEMIC ALL-IVY
Jordan Tonelli, Brown
Gabriel Seger, Cornell
Steven Townley, Dartmouth
Christian Jimenez, Harvard
Nick Seitz, Princeton
Connor Sullivan, Yale
*denotes unanimous selection
^expanded team due to ties in voting
