Only one 16-Under team sailed through the round robin play in the 2009 Girls USA Hockey National Championships presented by Easton and McDonald’s with the maximum nine points, winning all three games in regulation time. Team Illinois performed the feat while only allowing one goal in their own net at the ESL Sports Centre in Rochester, N.Y.

To Belle Tire 16-Under teammates, Kari and Sara Schmitt are the “Twin Towers.” To opponents, though, the identical pair often represents a bad case of double vision.

Christian Yngve, the Montgomery Youth Hockey Association’s director of girls’ hockey, has guided his program to the national stage through attention to skill development and puck possession, among other things.

Not only did all three of Shelley Looney’s New Jersey Colonials entrants, 12-and-under, 14-U and 16-U, advance to the USA Hockey National Tournament presented by Easton and McDonald’s, April 1-5 at the ESL Sports Center in Rochester, N.Y., but they did so without losing a game.