The accolades maintain rolling in for rising senior Isaac Howard following a historic 2024-25 marketing campaign, who was introduced because the recipient of USA Hockey’s Jim Johannson Faculty Participant of the 12 months award.
Howard is the fourth Spartan to earn this distinction, following within the footsteps of Jeff Lerg (2007), Ryan Miller (2001) and Mike York (1999).
Howard beforehand turned this system’s third all-time recipient of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award after delivering a career-best 26 targets and 52 factors throughout Michigan State’s 37 video games. He ranked first nationally in factors per recreation (1.41), was third in targets per recreation (0.70) and completed No. 23 in assists per recreation (0.70). Along with being named a primary group AHCA All-American, Howard earned Huge Ten participant of the yr, Huge Ten event most excellent participant and was first group all-B1G.
The Jim Johannson Faculty Participant of the 12 months award was first established in 1994 and acknowledges accomplishments of the highest American-born participant in NCAA Division I males’s school hockey. In 2019, the award was renamed in honor of Johannson, who received a nationwide championship whereas enjoying at Wisconsin and spent twenty years as an government at USA Hockey.
Howard is contemporary off a gold medal on the 2025 IIHF Males’s World Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. The Hudson, Wis., native was named to the U.S. Hockey Males’s Nationwide Crew in April, contributing an help throughout 4 appearances in pool play along with an help in an exhibition in opposition to Germany. Alongside Michigan State head coach Adam Nightingale who served as an assistant coach on Crew USA, the pair helped the United State convey house its first gold medal on the World Championship since 1933.
