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Elle Hartje’s 
Resume: Yale Assist 
Record, National 
Honors
The honors continue to roll in for 
Elle Hartje of Bloomfield Hills, one 
of the best players in women’s col-
lege hockey.
The Yale University 
junior forward was 
named to the Hockey 
Commissioners 
Association’s and 
United States College 
Hockey Online 
Division I Second 
Team.
Just three forwards were named 
to the First Team and three to the 
Second Team in both honor lists.
Hartje had 13 goals and 39 
assists for 52 points this season. 
She finished the year with a 
19-game point streak.
She shattered her own team 
season record for assists, set last 
year. Her 35 assists last year broke 
a 37-year-old record.
The Detroit Country Day School 

grad now has 40 goals and 88 
assists in her 97-game Yale career. 
She’s two assists away from break-
ing the team career assist record 
of 89, set this season by departing 
senior Claire Dalton.
“That’s always been the way I 
play,” Hartje said about her propen-
sity for getting assists. “I look for 
any way to put the puck in the net.”
She also looks for any way to 
help her team. Besides leading 
Yale in points and assists this sea-
son, she also led in plus/minus and 
blocked shots.
In addition to her national hon-
ors, Hartje was named earlier to 
the All-ECAC and All-Ivy League 
first teams, she was named the 
Ivy League Player of the Year, and 
she was named a New England 
Division I Women’s All-Star by 
the New England Hockey Writers 
Association.
Yale finished 28-4-1 this season. 
It lost to Northeastern in the quar-
terfinals of the NCAA tournament. 
The Bulldogs earned an at-large 
bid to the tournament after they 
won their first ECAC regular-season 
championship.

an issue with Gach, Flaherty 
said. Most of the time.
“Sometimes 16-year-olds 
need to be reminded that, say, 
we need to be thinking about 
North Farmington that week,
” 
he said. “That’s typical. It isn’t 
a big deal.
”
Gach plays some defensive 
tackle for Groves. Colleges are 
looking at him as an offensive 
tackle.
“
Avery plays super aggres-
sive all the time. He’s always in 
attack mode,
” Flaherty said.
Gach is one of only four 
freshmen who have started for 
Flaherty in his 23 seasons as 
Groves coach.
This spring, Gach is playing 
for the Groves baseball 
team. He’s undoubtedly the 
biggest designated hitter and 
occasional first baseman 

in the Oakland Activities 
Association.
“I like baseball. I’ve 
been playing it a lot longer 
than football. I like the 
competition,
” he said. “But I 
wish it was football season.
”
Gach’s parents are David 
and Amy Gach. The family 
lives in Bloomfield Hills. 
David was a star athlete at 
Berkley High School, where he 
played football, basketball and 
baseball and wrestled.
David had offers to play 
college football at Division II 
and Division III schools, but 
he went to Michigan State to 
study business and didn’t play 
sports there. 

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Avery Gach (74) 
celebrates a 
Groves victory 
with his team.

Elle Hartje

YALE UNIVERSITY

Bloomfield Hills High School 
senior boys basketball 
star Noah Adamczyk 
was named to the 
Associated Press 
Division 1 Second Team 
by sportswriters across 
the state.
“I would have loved 
to make First Team. I 
thought I had a good 
enough season. I think 
Bloomfield Hills is 
under-rated across the 
state,” he said.
“But it’s still 
amazing to make Second Team. 
It recognizes all the hard work I 
put in.”

Adamczyk made the AP’s 
Division 1 Honorable 
Mention list as a 
sophomore and junior.
Considered one of 
the state’s top guards, 
Adamczyk averaged 27.1 
points per game this 
season.
The 6-footer became 
the all-time career 
scoring leader at 
Bloomfield Hills and its 
predecessors, Lahser 
and Andover, this season 
with 1,519 points.
Adamczyk hasn’t yet decided 
where he’ll play college 
basketball.

Noah Adamczyk is a 
Second-Team All-Stater

Noah 
Adamczyk

SUSAN ADAMS

Josh Nodler Hits the Road Again

Former Michigan State University hockey player Josh Nodler is moving on 
to another school again.
After transferring to the University of Massachusetts following three 
years at MSU, Nodler has entered the transfer portal. The Oak Park 
resident and Berkley High School grad has one season of collegiate 
eligibility remaining, as a graduate student.
Nodler will graduate from UMass at the end of 
June with a degree in computer science.
The 5-foot-10, 195-pound forward didn’t have a 
productive season at UMass, with two goals and three 
assists in 27 games. He did win 54.7% of his faceoffs 
(186 of 340).
“It was a struggle, but I enjoyed being on the team 
and I’m looking forward to next season,” he said.
The Minutemen struggled as a team, finishing 13-17-
5. They lost to Boston College in the play-in game of 
the Hockey East tournament, their earliest exit since 
the 2016-17 season.
They had won the last two Hockey East tournaments and played in 
three straight semifinal rounds.
Nodler was selected by the Calgary Flames in the fifth round (150th 
overall) of the 2019 NHL draft.
“The Flames retain my rights as long as I’m in college,” he said. “I talk 
to them every so often.”
Nodler had 34 points in 99 games at MSU. Besides playing in every 
game over three seasons, he was the team’s Rookie of the Year as a 
freshman, winner of the Amo Bessone Award for athletic and academic 
achievement and community involvement as a sophomore, assistant 
captain as a junior, and he was named to the Academic All-Big Ten team 
three times.
He made a verbal commitment to MSU when he was a sophomore in 
high school.

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Josh Nodler

