Cost draft decide, Sarah Wozniewicz, to deal

OTTAWA, ON The Ottawa Cost introduced at the moment the signing of third spherical decide Sarah Wozniewicz to a one-year Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) Commonplace Participant Settlement for the 2025-26 season. The 21-year-old ahead from Cochrane, AB, was chosen with the twenty first total decide within the 2025 PWHL Draft held in Ottawa on June 24.

The 5’7” proper shot ahead helped the College of Wisconsin win two NCAA Nationwide Championships in 2023 and 2025 and was additionally a part of the Badgers squad that captured the 2024 WCHA title. Wozniewicz was an instantaneous fixture with the Badgers as she was named to the WCHA All-Rookie workforce in 2021-22.

“Sarah suits precisely the mildew of our workforce’s fashion of play. She’s a robust skater and a bodily participant,” stated Cost Common Supervisor Mike Hirshfeld. “We additionally know her as an individual as a result of our Head Coach Carla MacLeod coached her in highschool. That was an essential issue for us after we drafted her. We knew who the individual was.”

In 4 NCAA seasons, Wozniewicz recorded 36 objectives and 35 assists for 71 factors in 154 video games. In 2019, she gained a gold medal on the Canada Winter Video games whereas taking part in for MacLeod on Staff Alberta. In 2020, she gained a silver medal whereas taking part in for Canada on the IIHF U18 Girls’s World Championship.

“I’m tremendous excited to affix a workforce with such a passionate fan base. Signing a PWHL contract is a dream come true,” stated Wozniewicz. “I’m trying ahead to bringing my pace and aggressiveness to the forecheck. I’m a hard-working participant who by no means offers up on the puck. I feel Ottawa is an effective match for me and I’m blissful to play for Carla MacLeod once more. She’s been an amazing coach for me up to now.” 