34 | JUNE 2 • 2022 

SPORTS

Z

achary Felsenfeld went to Babson 
College to study business and 
finance.
The West Bloomfield resident left 
the private business school in Wellesley, 
Massachusetts, last month with a bachelor’s 
degree in finance and entrepreneurship, 
a job in New York City, and a national 
championship in college club hockey.
Felsenfeld was a member of the Babson 
club hockey team that won the 32-team 
College Hockey Federation Cup national 
tournament in March in Philadelphia.
The tournament was a grind. No. 
5-ranked Babson won six games on six 
consecutive days, outscoring its opponents 
35-14, to earn the team’s first national title.
“Grueling on the body,
” is how Felsenfeld 
described the tournament.
“Plus, we had to keep up with our classes 
while we were there,
” he said.
Felsenfeld, a 5-foot-10, 160-pound right 
wing, had four goals and three assists in his 
team’s six games at the tournament.
He certainly saved his best for last this 
season. His production at the tournament 
gave him a total of eight goals and seven 
assists for his senior year.
“I knew the games at the tournament 
were going to be my last competitive 
hockey games, so I wanted to leave it all on 
the ice,
” he said. “I feel I did that.
”
After winning three games in pool play 
to open the tournament, Babson beat 
Alabama 3-1 in the quarterfinals, South 
Carolina 2-1 in overtime in the semifinals 
and Binghamton (New York) 6-2 in 
the championship game to complete an 
undefeated season.
Felsenfeld played for the Babson club 
hockey team in his final three years at the 
school.
“I didn’t play hockey at Babson when I 
was a freshman there because I wanted to 
focus on academics,
” he said. “I didn’t even 

bring my hockey gear. But I became friends 
with guys on the club team.
“Hockey wasn’t the major reason why I 
went to Babson, but I knew they had a club 
team, and I was interested in playing for it.
”
While Babson helps with the club hockey 
team’s travel costs, Felsenfeld said, the 
players fund most of the expenses.
In his case, Felsenfeld said, he used 
money he earned at summer jobs at Carl’s 
Golfland in Bloomfield Hills and Rocket 
Mortgage to pay to play.
While playing for Babson, he wore his 
helmet from his days on the Bloomfield 
Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood High School 
hockey team.
Those who think college club hockey is 
not much different than an adult recreation 
league are wrong, Felsenfeld said.
“College club hockey shouldn’t be taken 
lightly,
” he said. “It’s fast-paced, hard-hitting 
hockey with really good players. It’s nothing 

to joke about.
”
Felsenfeld played for the perennial 
powerhouse Cranbrook-Kingswood hockey 
team as a junior and senior.
He had 11 goals and 18 assists in the 
two seasons, and he was the winner of the 
team’s Hobey Baker Award for all-around 
outstanding play in the 2017-18 season as a 
senior, when the Cranes won the program’s 
first Division 1 regional title and advanced 
to the state quarterfinals.
Felsenfeld played golf for Cranbrook-
Kingswood for four years, making it to the 
state tournament three times.
He’s still active in golf, playing in amateur 
tournaments in Michigan.
“Being a good golfer should help me in 
the business world,
” he said.
Now, about that job in New York City 
that Babson helped Felsenfeld land.
Felsenfeld set himself up for the job by 
being a star in the classroom at Babson, 
graduating magna cum laude. He had 
a final 3.71 cumulative grade-point 
average and made the Dean’s List all eight 
semesters he was there.
He’ll start his job at AlphaSights as an 
associate on Sept. 1.
AlphaSights provides private equity and 
wealth management consulting services 
for individual and business clients.
Family is an important part of 
Felsenfeld’s life. He credits his family’s 
support for helping him achieve his career 
and hockey goals.
His parents are Bob and Brenda 
Felsenfeld. Bob was in Philadelphia for 
the Babson club hockey team’s national 
championship game.
Zachary, 22, has three older siblings: 
Josh, 35, of Bethesda, Maryland; Elyssa, 
33, of Chicago; and Matt, 30, of Austin, 
Texas. 

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Zachary Felsenfeld of West Bloomfi
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his college hockey career with a fl
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Six Games, Six Days, One 
National Championship

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

COLLEGE HOCKEY FEDERATION

What is Zachary Felsenfeld holding? The 
College Hockey Federation Cup.

