{"id":58,"date":"2012-02-20T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/?p=58"},"modified":"2012-03-29T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T21:24:24","slug":"fundraiser-at-boston-blades-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser at Boston Blades Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW HAVEN, Conn. \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0It has been nearly a year since Yale women&#8217;s ice hockey center\u00a0<strong>Mandi Schwartz &#8217;10 (1988-2011)<\/strong>\u00a0passed away after battling cancer for more than two years. Yet she continues to inspire efforts by her Bulldog teammates to help others.<\/p>\n<p>After the final game of the 2011-12 season at Harvard on Saturday afternoon Feb. 18, the Yale team traveled North instead of heading right home to New Haven. The Bulldogs attended a Boston Blades Canadian Women&#8217;s Hockey League (CWHL) game in Reading, Mass., that served as a fundraiser for the Mandi Schwartz Foundation &#8212; the charity that Yale senior captain\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yalebulldogs.com\/sports\/w-hockey\/2011-12\/bios\/hughes%20aleca00.html\">Aleca Hughes<\/a>\u00a0(Westwood, Mass.)<\/strong>\u00a0started in Mandi&#8217;s memory.<\/p>\n<p>Donations for the foundation were accepted at the game, and t-shirts from the most recent &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yalebulldogs.com\/whiteout\">White Out for Mandi<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; (the Yale team&#8217;s annual fundraiser at Ingalls Rink) were available as well. Hughes dropped the ceremonial first puck and sophomore forward\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yalebulldogs.com\/sports\/w-hockey\/2011-12\/bios\/mcgauley%20patricia%20s627\">Patricia McGauley<\/a>\u00a0(Wilcox, Sask.)<\/strong>, who is from the same home town and high school as Mandi, sang the National Anthem. The Blades&#8217; roster features two players with Yale connections &#8212;\u00a0<strong>Bray Ketchum &#8217;11<\/strong>\u00a0and assistant coach\u00a0<strong>Jessica Koizumi<\/strong>. Koizumi had a pair of goals and Ketchum had an assist as the Blades beat Burlington 6-0.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_6494.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-59\" title=\"IMG_6494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_6494-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_6494-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_6494-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_6494-519x346.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW HAVEN, Conn. \u2013\u00a0It has been nearly a year since Yale women&#8217;s ice hockey center\u00a0Mandi Schwartz &#8217;10 (1988-2011)\u00a0passed away after battling cancer for more than two years. Yet she continues to inspire efforts by her Bulldog teammates to help others. After the final game of the 2011-12 season at Harvard on Saturday afternoon Feb. 18, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandi17.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}