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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