U-M to Host Penn State, No. 15 Rutgers for MarciaPalooza, Alumni Weekend

Promotions

Oct. 3

• MarciaPalooza – The Wolverines will honor legendary head coach Marcia Pankratz, who retired final spring after 25 seasons on the helm of the UMFH program. The first 200 followers will obtain MarciaPalooza rally towels.

Oct. 5

• Alumni Weekend – All UMFH alumni are invited again and can be acknowledged on-field throughout halftime. The first 250 followers will obtain a Michigan area hockey stone coaster.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The No. 12-ranked University of Michigan area hockey workforce (6-3, 1-1 Big Ten) hosts an enormous homestand this weekend with a pair of Big Ten Conference matchups at Phyllis Ocker Field. The Wolverines will tackle Penn State (5-4, 1-1 Big Ten) at 6 p.m. on Friday (Oct. 3) and proceed with a midday slate towards No. 15 Rutgers (6-4, 1-0 Big Ten) on Sunday (Oct. 5). Sunday’s sport will broadcast reside on the Big Ten Network.

Notes

• The Wolverines are 1-1 in Big Ten Conference play after struggling a slender 1-0 loss at No. 10 Maryland final Friday (Sept. 26).

• Michigan wrapped the non-conference portion of its 2025 schedule with a 5-2 report, together with a 4-1 resolution at Old Dominion final Sunday (Sept. 28).

• Michigan ranks eleventh nationally with a 2.11 scoring margin and tenth with a 3.33 goals-per-game common. The Wolverines additionally share the seventh spot nationally with three shutouts.

• Twelve totally different Wolverines have scored no less than one aim via seven video games this season, simply two shy of the 14-player complete that scored final season. Fifth-year senior Emmy Tran is the most recent to hitch the scoring ranks this season with two markers — within the second and fourth quarters — in U-M’s Big Ten opener towards Michigan State (Sept. 19).

• Junior Juliette Manzur leads the Wolverines in scoring with 13 factors on 4 objectives and 5 assists. Her level complete is already a profession excessive — she beforehand posted 11 factors within the final two seasons — whereas she has matched her profession excessive in assists as one among Michigan’s major inserters on the penalty nook. She can also be only one aim shy of her profession finest.

• Graduate Abby Tamer is the Wolverines’ main aim scorer with 5 markers via 9 video games. Tamer, 2024 First Team All-American, led U-M in scoring final season with 12 objectives, 14 assists and 38 factors. Among her aim complete this season is a pair of game-winning tallies — towards Wake Forest (Aug. 31) and Stanford (Sept. 14) — within the ultimate 30 seconds of the fourth quarter.

• Michigan has outscored opponents, 21-5, within the second half this season and, 12-2, within the fourth quarter. Last season, U-M outscored its opposition, 15-4, within the fourth quarter.

• Junior/sophomore goalkeeper Hala Silverstein and graduate pupil Caylie McMahon have mixed for 3 shutout wins — 13-0 vs. Bellarmine (Sept. 7), 2-0 at UC Davis (Sept. 12) and 5-0 vs. MSU. Michigan carries a 1.24 goals-against common, whereas its defensive corps has allowed simply 8.4 pictures and a couple of.78 corners per sport thus far this season.

• Michigan has held opponents to only two objectives off penalty corners this season — one apiece towards North Carolina and Stanford — and a scant conversion price of 5.5 p.c (2/36).

• Penn State is 5-4 on the season and 1-1 in Big Ten play after struggling a 3-1 loss to No. 10 Maryland on Sept. 19 and selecting up a 2-0 win towards Michigan State final Friday (Sept. 26). Josephine Purdy leads the Nittany Lions with a team-leading 4 objectives and one help. Goalkeeper Aby Deverka carries a 1.96 goals-against-average and a .604 save proportion. Michigan trails PSU within the all-time sequence, 26-31, however is 7-3 within the final 10 conferences. Michigan took final season’s matchup in commanding trend, defeating the Nittany Lions, 6-0, on the highway.

• Rutgers enters the weekend 6-4 with a 1-0 report in Big Ten play after securing a 2-1 additional time victory towards Ohio State at dwelling final Friday (Sept. 26) — in addition to an 8-0 victory over Columbia in its most up-to-date outing final Sunday (Sept. 28). Olivia Fraticelli leads the Scarlet Knights with 5 objectives and two assists over the workforce’s 10 video games, whereas goalkeeper Emily Nicholls owns a 1.34 goals-against-average and .840 save proportion. Michigan leads 13-4 all-time towards Rutgers, claiming a 4-0 win the final time the 2 squads met in 2024.