Badgers goalie Desbiens perseveres through injury to win Patty Kazmaier Award
The resilience of goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens was tested in her senior year with the University of Wisconsin Badgers.
The 22-year-old from La Malbaie, Que., injured her knee playing for the Canadian women’s hockey team in December and also sustained a concussion in a Badgers game in October.
Desbiens weathered those slings and arrows to win the Patty Kazmaier Award as the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey.
She was the sixth Canadian and just the third goaltender to claim the honour in its two decades.