{"id":2716,"date":"2016-05-19T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2017-03-22T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:59:56","slug":"athletic-hall-of-fame-2016-laura-hurd-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2016\/05\/19\/athletic-hall-of-fame-2016-laura-hurd-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Hall of Fame 2016: Laura Hurd ’01"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Laura Hurd ’01 set numerous NCAA Division III Hockey records that still stand after 15 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Laura Hurd ’01, who was posthumously inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Reunion May 13, was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and attended Williston Northampton for two years. A two-year starter in soccer, ice hockey, and track, Hurd\u00a0was known for her tenacious determination, competitive spirit, and unfailing love of life. Her mother, Jennifer, accepted the award on her daughter’s behalf, and Rachel Rockwell ’16 presented the award.<\/p>\n

After graduation, Hurd\u00a0attended Elmira College, which was just starting a women\u2019s ice hockey program.\u00a0 Over the course of the next four years, she rewrote the record books for Division III Women\u2019s Ice Hockey in leading Elmira to two National Division III titles.\u00a0 A four-time First Team All-American forward, Hurd\u00a0still holds the NCAA Division III record for career scoring with 237 points, leading the nation in scoring her senior year and being named ECAC Player of the Year. She also holds NCAA Division III records for points in a season (77), points in a career (120 goals, 117 assists), points per game in a season (2.75), points per game in a career (2.15), goals in a season (40), goals in a career (120), assists in a career (117) and assists per game (1.06).<\/p>\n

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Rachel Rockwell ’16 presented Laura’s Hall of Fame award to\u00a0mother Jennifer Hurd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFor me, I had never seen a kid who could finish like that. She had such a gift around the net,” former Elmira coach Jamie Wood said. “She wasn’t the fastest skater, but she was fast enough. She wasn’t the biggest kid, but she was big enough. She knew exactly where to be and when to be there. It was uncanny.”<\/p>\n

“I think for her the stats didn’t really matter,” Wood added. “She was focused on winning and what the team was doing. We wouldn’t have won without her on the ice. She played her best in the big moments.”<\/p>\n

Upon graduating from Elmira with a B.A. in Economics, Hurd\u00a0went to work for Corning.\u00a0 In the summer of 2006, Hurd\u00a0was tragically killed in a car accident.\u00a0 In January 2007, the American Hockey Coaches Association voted to rename the Division III Women\u2019s Ice Hockey Player of the Year award after her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laura Hurd ’01, who was posthumously inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Reunion May 13, was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and attended Williston Northampton for two years. A two-year starter in soccer, ice hockey, and track, Hurd\u00a0was known for her tenacious determination, competitive spirit, and unfailing love of life. … Continue reading Athletic Hall of Fame 2016: Laura Hurd ’01<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}