Former Minnesota ahead Audrey Wethington has been named the 2025 recipient of the annual Faculty Hockey Inc. scholarship, offered by JLG Architects.
Wethington will obtain the $2500 postgraduate scholarship given yearly to the NCAA males’s or ladies’s hockey participant who helps construct the sport by way of their assist of the following technology of hockey gamers.
The scholarship is awarded in honor of JLG founder Lonnie Laffen, a passionate faculty hockey supporter who handed away in 2020.
A local of Edina, Minn., Wethington appeared in a program-record 175 video games for the Golden Gophers from 2020 to 2025, amassing 21 targets and 51 assists for 72 factors. She earned her bachelor’s diploma in biology in 2023 and a grasp’s diploma in organic sciences in 2025.
In 2024-25, Wethington was named to the CSC Educational All-America first crew and was the NCAA Elite 90 Award recipient for ladies’s hockey with a 4.0 grade-point common. She was additionally a finalist for the 2024-25 Hockey Humanitarian Award.
Wethington has spent her summers courting again to highschool working youth camps such because the Minnesota Ladies Hockey Camp, OS Hockey, and Youth Hockey Hub. Throughout the season as a collegian, she stayed concerned within the hockey group by way of the College of Minnesota’s Rink Roots program, visiting native rinks to assist run practices.
Wethington additionally partnered with Subsequent of Can, a Minneapolis-based non-profit group, to assist make hockey extra accessible by donating hockey gear to households in want. Final winter, her efforts supported the Faribault (Minn.) Youth Hockey Affiliation.
For the previous three years, Wethington has additionally volunteered weekly at Masonic Kids’s Hospital in Minneapolis.
“We couldn’t be prouder to honor Audrey Wethington with the Faculty Hockey Inc. scholarship,” mentioned Faculty Hockey Inc. govt director Sean Hogan in a press release. “In an exceptionally sturdy and aggressive applicant pool, her candidacy really stood out. Not solely does she excel academically and athletically, however her deep dedication to volunteerism – mentoring youth, organizing group drives, and giving again in numerous different methods – really embodies the spirit of faculty hockey.”
“JLG is honored to current this yr’s Faculty Hockey Inc. scholarship to Audrey Wethington, a robust student-athlete who embodies skilled, tutorial, and athletic excellence on and off the ice,” added Michelle Mongeon Allen, CEO of JLG Architects. “This scholarship is devoted to empowering the following technology of leaders, and Audrey clearly demonstrates a unprecedented dedication to serving her group, faculty hockey, and youth applications.”
Wethington will start medical college at Minnesota this month and plans to pursue a profession as an orthopedic surgeon or sports activities medication doctor.
“I’m extremely grateful to obtain the Faculty Hockey Inc. scholarship,” mentioned Wethington. “I fell in love with hockey as just a little woman watching the Gophers from the stands and it has formed each a part of who I’m. The game has given me position fashions, lifelong recollections, life classes, and a platform to pour into the following technology.
“Being acknowledged with this award means the world to me, and I’m dedicated to persevering with to provide again to the sport and group which have given me a lot on this subsequent chapter of my life as a doctor.”
The Faculty Hockey Inc. scholarship, offered by JLG Architects, was first awarded in 2020 and is open to any NCAA hockey participant (males’s or ladies’s, any division) who has exhausted their collegiate eligibility. Functions require a written essay on the student-athlete’s contributions to the youth hockey group, which could possibly be accompanied by movies, images, or different supplemental data.
The winner is chosen by a committee made up of representatives from Faculty Hockey Inc. and JLG Architects.
Faculty Hockey Inc. Scholarship Recipients
2020: Breanna Scarpaci, Boston University2021: Michael Korol, Norwich2022: Brooke Leone, Augsburg2023: Stephanie Martin, Wisconsin-Eau Claire2024: Emma Guzdek, Wilkes2025: Audrey Wethington, Minnesota
