For Gophers, Badgers women’s hockey, Chicago Mission players have a legacy of excellence

By Patrick Reusse

The Gophers can trace a lineage from the record-setting Megan Bozek to Abbey Murphy’s antics in Friday’s victory vs. Wisconsin.

Chicago Mission is a junior hockey program that draws and develops players throughout that enormous metropolitan area. It has been around for two decades, supplanting Team Illinois as the junior powerhouse, and has had particular success in producing talent for the women’s college teams.

Quite a few representatives also on U.S. national teams.

The Gophers first tapped into Mission with outstanding defender Megan Bozek, who arrived in the fall of 2009. And as a senior on the 41-0 team of 2012-13, she set a Gophers record with 57 points as a defender. She then played in three Olympics.

“No, two — 2014 in Sochi and 2022 in Beijing; I got cut in 2018?” Bozek said this week.

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