JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 31

BACK IN THE U.S.A.
She planned to compete with the
Slovakia national team in an Olympic
qualification tournament in November
but was ill (not with COVID) and
decided not to travel.
It turned out to be a wise decision.
The four Yale games Elle would
have missed had she traveled —
against Cornell, Colgate, Harvard and
Dartmouth from Nov. 5-13 — were all
wins for the Bulldogs, who outscored
their four opponents 22-4.
Elle had two goals and six assists in
those games.
She had a great freshman season at
Yale in 2019-20.
After scoring a hat trick in her first
collegiate game and earning ECAC
Hockey Rookie of the Week honors,
she ended up sixth among Division I
freshmen with .89 points per game, had
11 goals and 14 assists, and led her team
in plus-minus with plus-23.
Yale won a team record 17 games,
finishing 17-15 for first-year coach
Mark Bolding.
Elle is considering playing soccer
for Yale starting this spring. She didn’t
play in her freshman year because of

a broken leg she suffered late in the
hockey season.
Elle was an outstanding multi-sport
athlete at Detroit Country Day School.
She was a four-time state champion
in tennis, going 97-1 during her high
school career, and a four-time All-State
selection in soccer.
Her accomplishments helped her
earn a prestigious honor in 2019, when
she was one of three girls named a
High School Athlete of the Year by the
Jewish News and Michigan Jewish Sports
Foundation.
Outside of high school, Elle was the
captain and scoring leader for the Belle
Tire 19U women’s hockey team that
won a silver medal in 2018 and a bronze
medal in 2019 at the USA Hockey
national championships.
Elle is one of four children of Tod
and Nicole Hartje. Tod played hockey at
Harvard University and won a national
championship. Nicole was the captain of
the tennis team at Harvard.
The family attends Temple Shir
Shalom in West Bloomfield Township.

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ELLE HARTJE

MAGYAR JEGKRONG

BOTTOM: Sunrise in Budapest, Hungary

meant time for a selfie for Elle Hartje, who

was in Budapest with the Slovakia national

women’s hockey team.

BELOW: Elle Hartje (27) battles for the

puck with a MAC Budapest player during

the Elite Women’s Hockey League’s 2021

bronze medal playoff game in Budapest,

Hungary. Hartje and her Slovakian club

team won the game.