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Schelling and Gunn headline WHEA All-Decade Team

Northeastern women's ice hockey is honored to name seven current and former Huskies to its All-Decade Team, as part of the Women's Hockey East Association's Ten-Year Anniversary celebration. Today Northeastern highlights Chanda Gunn and Florence Schelling, two of the greatest goaltenders in program history.

Chanda Gunn (Huntington Beach, Calif.) is an Olympic bronze medalist who starred in goal for Northeastern from 2001-2004. In 2003-04 Gunn won the Hockey Humanitarian Award for excellence on the ice and in community service. Gunn holds Northeastern's all-time record for single-season wins (23) and save percentage (.950), and was a finalist for the 2004 Patty Kazmeier Award, which honors the nation's top player.

After seeing little time her freshman season playing behind the outstanding Erika Silva, Gunn emerged the following year to become one of the premier goaltenders in program history. As a sophomore in 2001-02, Gunn conceded just 41 goals in 31 games, and collected 23 wins with a save percentage of .950, both Northeastern records that still stand today. She currently holds the all-time career save percentage record (.936) and, until this season, she was the program's all-time leader in saves (2.447).

By 2006 Gunn was recognized as the nation's finest netminder, and started four of the United States' five games at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She registered two shutouts in her four games, including a 4-0 win over Finland to win the bronze medal.

Florence Schelling (Oberengstringen, Switzerland) is the only current Husky named to the All-Decade team, and figures to own numerous Northeastern goaltending awards by the end of her career. In 2009-10 Schelling was named WHEA Player of the Year and was a Kazmeier finalist. She competed for her native Switzerland at both the 2006 and 2010 Olympics.

Schelling arrived at Northeastern for the 2008-09 season and proceeded to post three consecutive single-season save percentages that rank among the top ten in Northeastern history. This season, amidst an assault on nearly all of Northeastern's career goaltending records, Schelling is threatening to break Gunn's single-season and career save percentage records – at .949 in 2011-12, she is just one thousandth behind in the former, and figures to easily break the latter, for which she entered the season tied with Gunn at .936.

Earlier this season, Schelling passed Gunn on the program's all-time saves list. With a career goals against average of 1.77, Schelling is on pace to shatter the current career mark held by Silva (1.89). She has recorded the second-most single season shutouts – with seven this season – and career shutouts (17). Schelling is also on pace to break Shannon Meyers' career minutes record (5,786).

Like Gunn, Schelling would eventually be tabbed to represent her country on the world's grandest stage. In 2006, at the age of 16, Schelling appeared in four of Switzerland's five games en route to a seventh-place finish. In 2010, she started all five games, and defeated Russia in a shootout to earn fifth place.

Northeastern has named seven players to its All-Decade Team, including Lindsay Berman, Amy Goodney, Kristi Kehoe, Julia Marty and Nikki Petrich.










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