An Olympic champion, two-time national champion and an all-time leading scorer -- women's hockey goaltender Maddie Rooney, men's hockey goaltender Hunter Shepard, and men's basketball forward Brandon Myer -- were bestowed with the University of Minnesota Duluth's Outstanding Male and Female Senior Athlete Awards for 2019-20 presented by Northland Subway.  





Maddie Rooney became UMD's all-time career saves leader on January 17th and finished her career with a staggering 3,449 stops, which led all active NCAA goaltenders this season. Rooney now owns three of the top four single-season records for saves in UMD history, including the fourth most of 964 saves set this season. One of only two Bulldog goaltenders to have made more than 1,000 stops in a season, Rooney also owns both the most games played by a UMD netminder (122) and minutes played (7,277:49), as well as third-most wins with 59. A five-time WCHA Goaltender of the Week this past season and named 2019-20 All-WCHA Second Team selection. Rooney won two World Championship gold medals with the U.S. National Team during her time at UMD, as well as a gold medal in the 2018 Winter Olympics with Team USA.






Hunter Shepard is a two-time All-American (first team in 2018-19, and second team in 2019-20), Two-time NCHC Goaltender of the Year (2018-19 and 2019-20), Three-time Mike Richter Award Finalist, and a Three-time All-NCHC selection. Hunter owns the NCAA record for consecutive starts with 115, an ironman run that stretched between October 21, 2017 and March 7, 2020. He is also UMD's all-time leader in wins (he was 76-37-5 overall), goals against average (1.94), saves percentage (.922) and shut outs (17). He also holds the distinction of being the only UMD goalie to ever secure all-conference first team status on more than one occasion. In eight lifetime NCAA Tournament appearances, he posted an 8-0 record, an 0.97 goals against average and a .953 saves percentage with one shutout. He was also the first goaltender to backstop his team to back-to-back NCAA national titles (2017-18 and 2018-19) in a half century. He served as a team captain with the 2019-20 Bulldogs, the first goaltender to do so in 43 years. 





In 2019-20, Brandon Myer was named NABC First Team All-American, NABC First Team All-Central Region, was a nominee for NABC DII Player of the Year, a Bevo Francis top 50 player, D2CCA Third Team All-American, Small College Hoops Third Team All-American, the first NSIC player to be named USBWA National Player of the Week and was NSIC Player of the Week five times. In addition, Brandon broke the UMD All-Time Scoring record and is the first Bulldog to eclipse 2,000 points (2,045 points). He had 21 20+ point performances, 8 30+ point performances, and 3 40+ point performances. He set a career high in single game points with 45 points against BSU.


Stay tuned for tomorrow as the Bulldogs recognize all UMD senior student-athletes along with a recap of this week's award winners.