Head Coach Ann Ninnemann Head Coach
Whether as a player, assistant coach or head coach, winning seems to follow Ann Ninnemann in any role. Ninnemann displayed those talents once again in 2008-09 after leading the UW-Stevens Point women’s hockey team to a second place finish in the NCHA tournament.
season with the Pointers in 200506, resulting in a third place national finish.
In addition to Ninnemann’s hockey success, she also conveyed her winning ways as an assistant coach with the UW-Stevens Point softball team. In her first season on the Ninnemann will begin her sixth season diamond, Ninnemann helped the in 20011-12 after a 13-11-3 record Pointers to one of their best seasons a year ago. In her tenure the Pointers in school history with a 33-10 have experienced five successful overall record and NCAA Division III seasons including a national third tournament appearance. In 2006, place finish in 2006-07. Ninnemann assisted with the Stevens Point Area Senior High softball team The national success was nothing that finished 23-1 and qualified for the new for Ninnemann, who experienced WIAA state tournament. plenty as both a player and assistant coach. In fact, she is the only person Ninnemann, a Rosemount, Minn. ever to both play and coach in a native, has worked numerous camps, Division III Frozen Four. She also was including USA Hockey camps in an assistant coach in the Frozen Four Rochester, N.Y. and UW-Stevens Point and became just the third female hockey schools. head coach ever to lead a team to the national semifinals. Ninnemann was UW-Stevens Point’s first All-American player in 2001-02 and captained the Pointers for three straight seasons from 2002-05. She totaled 55 goals and a school-record 69 assists for 124 points, ranking second in school history for goals and points. Ninnemann was named to the All-Tournament Team in 2004 when she led the Pointers to a national runner-up finish. She also assisted former UWStevens Point head coach and current North Dakota head coach Brian Idalski for one
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