The 2021-22 season was Allie Cornelius' fourth season with the St. Cloud State women's hockey team. Because the NCAA granted another season of eligibility to athletes who participated in the 2020-21 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, Cornelius had a decision to make about this season.
Then head coach Steve Macdonald was let go in March 2022, so the Huskies would be going into this season with a new head coach. Cornelius decided to return and is glad she did. Under new head coach Brian Idalski, the Huskies (13-10) have won the most games that the program has won in a season since going 13-18-4 in 2015-16.
Cornelius talks about growing up a Huskies fan in St. Cloud and what her time at SCSU has been like with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.
TIME STAMPS
:30 Wins last weekend over New Hampshire and Merrimack
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1:20 This weekend's series at MSU-Mankato
2:20 What this season has been like
3:00 The differences in the coaching approach of Brian Idalski
5:15 Playing on a line with Courtney Hall and Klara Hymlarova
6:20 What Hymlarova, an Olympian from the Czech Republic, is like as a teammate
8:00 What Finnish Olympian Jenniina Nylund's season has been like, how she and Hymlarova leaders
10:00 How did she make the decision to come back for a fifth year, what she added academically for this season. An Academic All-American last season, she is a marketing major
11:45 How much did the returning players talk during the offseason with the unknown of the head coaching position
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13:30 What was her initial reaction to Idalski being named head coach, the different sides of his personality
16:40 Her high school experiences playing for the St. Cloud Icebreakers, her teammate Gabbie Rud, who is playing for Cornell
18:00 Connections between SCSU and the St. Cloud Crush girls hockey team, getting to know coach Amanda Pickett and their team a bit
19:20 Growing up a Huskies fan, being named Fan of the Game
20:20 What was the recruiting process like for her in high school
21:40 How she got interested in hockey, skating with her aunt (a figure skater), her brother played for Cathedral
23:00 Trying not to think of her last season of college hockey
23:50 Beating Minnesota in Andover in front of a packed house
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