Buckeye Newcomer Spotlight: Alex LaMere

Oustanding Goaltender Ends BNS Series for the Summer

Clay Sawatzke / Monticello Times

Alex LaMere – Goaltender, North Wright County River Hawks

Hometown: Saint Michael, MN

Almost three months ago, I began profiling the phenomenal incoming Buckeye men's and women's players.

Janik Möser was the first men's player in our “Buckeye Newcomer Spotlight” series and Kassidy Sauve followed him up the next week.

We started the women's profiling with a goalie, and it's only fitting that we end with one.

Last, but certainly not least, is Alex LaMere. 

Alex is one of, if not the finest goalie to come out of the North Wright County program in Monticello, Minn.

In three seasons with the River Hawks, LaMere compiled a 29-12-5 record, a goals against average 1.49 and a .935 save percentage, and 15 shutouts in the process.

LaMere posted an impressive 15 shutouts during her River
Hawks Career.   (Clay Sawatzke – Monticello Times)

Seven of those shutouts came during the 2013-14 season, where Alex posted a 12-5-3 record, had a goals against average of 1.41, and a .935 save percentage.

Equally as impressive as the numbers above, she only allowed 13 goals in 11 Mississippi 8 Conference games.

She was a captain and the backbone of the 14-9-3 River Hawks, a team that lost a heartbreaker in the fourth overtime to St. Cloud in the first round of the Mississippi 8 section playoffs.

To top things off on her incredible career there, Alex was a finalist for the Let's Play Hockey Senior Goalie of the Year Award, given to the best goalie in Minnesota. 

She touched briefly on her offer to come to Columbus in a Press News article and she was enthusiastic to say the least.

“When the offered me a spot on their team, I was just ecstatic about it, and I kind of love everything about that school.” (pressnews.com)

After the departure of Chelsea Knapp and Lisa Steffes, two amazing netminders in their own right, it will be interesting to see who will emerge between the pipes for the upcoming season.

Nate Handrahan and his staff did a remarkable job in bringing the high-quality goaltending of Kassidy Sauve and Alex LaMere to the 614 area code.

Stacy Danczak, a redshirt junior, has the daunting task of trying to emerge as a starter while helping to get these ladies prepared for the road ahead in the WCHA.

All three will have to be ready, because life isn't easy for goalies in the nation's toughest conference.

Going out with a bang, HNIC gives you three videos of the incredible goalie that fans are going to see on Woody Hayes Drive.