For the first time since the 2010-11 regular season, the Bison women's hockey team is ranked number four in the nation.

Manitoba (16-5-3-2 conference regular season record) moves from number five to four in the latest U SPORTS Top 10 rankings. Manitoba was previous ranked number four in the U SPORTS Top 10 on January 11, 2011.

Women's Hockey U SPORTS Top 10 (Feb. 7/17)
(regular season record) / votes (1st place votes) / (previous ranking)
1. UBC (22-3-1) /40 pts / (1)
2. Guelph (17-2-1) / 35 / (2)
3. Saint Mary's (18-2-3) / 33 / (3)
4. Manitoba (19-5-2) / 26 / (5)
5. St. Thomas (16-3-3) / 26 / (4)
6. McGill (13-4-0) / 20 / (6)
7. Alberta (19-4-3) / 16 / (7)
8. Montreal (9-7-1) / 12 / (8)
9. Nipissing (15-3-2) / 8 / (9)
10. Toronto (13-7-0) / 3 / (10)


The Bison women's hockey team will travel to #7 Alberta Pandas for a crucial road weekend series to complete the 2016-17 conference regular season. Manitoba needs four of a possible six points available to earn second place in the Canada West conference. The Bisons play on Friday, February 10 at 8 p.m. CT and then on Saturday, February 11 at 3 p.m. CT and both games are on live webcast at canadawest.tv (fee req'd).

This is the second weekend series between the two teams this conference season. Earlier in 2016-17, the Herd earned one point against the Pandas at home (L 4-3 in shootout on Nov. 18/16 and L1-0 on Nov. 19/16).

Manitoba has five players in the Canada West Top 15 scoring with third year forward Lauryn Keen leading the way with 33 points (nine goals, 24 assists).

Bison Notes: At the 2017 Winter Universiade (World University Games) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Bison women's hockey third year forward Alanna Sharman and third year defenceman Erica Rieder finished with a silver medal as part Team Canada after 4-1 final loss to Russia in the gold medal game on Monday, February 6.