Utah W1 moves up to #18 in national rankings

November 26, 2025
Salt Lake City, Utah

The American Collegiate Hockey Association Women’s Division 1 computerized rankings are here, with your Skatin’ Utes moving up to #18 in the last national ranking period before the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend.

The Utah W1 schedule has been home focused thus far, with eight of their first twelve games occurring at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex.

The Utes have secured nine wins and only three losses in their first twelve games of the 2025-26 campaign. Two of those loses came at the hands of the defending National Champions Liberty University on October 3rd and 4th. Their only other loss occurred on October 18th against WWCHL rival Colorado State with a score of 4-3 .

Their wins include 11-1 and 10-0 victories over newly minted W1 team University of New Mexico on September 26 & 27th. Followed by a 2-1 victory over Colorado State on October 17th. The next weekend Utah W1 secured strong victories over University of Wyoming with scores of 8-3 and 10-3.

After the Halloween bye, Utah W1 earned four more wins in the subsequent two weeks. Including 2-0 and 4-2 wins over defending WWCHL Conference Champions Grand Canyon University on November 7th and 8th. Then 2-0 and 3-2 wins over University of Arizona last weekend.

Not only is the 9-3 record for Utah W1 impressive, so are their overall stats, which include 55 goals for, 35 goals against, and only 84 PIMs. They have won their last six games and have a winning percentage of .750 as of this article.

Leading the Utes is Veteran Forward Sonia Charman with 16 points (6G, 10A) in 12 games. Followed by five rookie forwards Katherine Zeschuk (6G, 5A), Taylor Wensink (6G, 4A), Kendall Ketchum (5G, 5A), Carmen Mannor (6G, 2A), and Ariel Carlsten (5G, 2A). That is 46 combined points for these five Utah Hockey newcomers.

Following close behind is veterans Morgan Lavalley (3G, 4A), Halee Smith (3G, 4A), Captain Ava Kistner (4G, 2A), and Madison Brent (4G, 1A).

Tandem goaltenders Keyauna Robinson-Prefontaine and Miranda De Antunano have been equally impressive during Utah’s strong start. Rookie goalie Robinson-Prefontaine is 4-0 with a 1.50 GAA and a .933 save percentage. De Antunano has a 5-3 record with 3.63 GAA and .855 save percentage.

The Western Women’s Collegiate Hockey League, of which Utah W1 is a member, had a decent performance with two (of 7) of its member teams ranked in the top 20. The Women’s Midwest College Hockey League has six (of 8) member teams ranked, while the Central Collegiate Women’s Hockey Association has nine (of 12) of its member teams ranked in the top 20.

The ACHA uses two computer rankings generated by USHSHO.com, Ranking A (Wins with Maximum Goal Differential of 7) and Ranking B (Wins with Maximum Goal Differential of 1), and come up with an average of the two rankings. The ACHA will then use the list generated from the average for its weekly ranking. Ties will be broken using the higher ranked team from Ranking B until the Top 20 teams are listed. All games that go to overtime will be scored as ties in the computer ranking.

Now in its 26th season of action, there have been a total of 10 schools that have won the ACHA Women’s Division 1 National Championship: Adrian, Liberty (7), Lindenwood (4), Miami (3), Michigan State (2), Minnesota, Northeastern, Robert Morris (2), St. Cloud State, and Wisconsin (2).

A total of 34 teams are competing in Women’s Division 1 this season, including one new full member team, Eastern Michigan University, and two probationary members, University of Washington, and University of New Mexico.

The computer ranking will determine the 10 teams that qualify for the 2026 ACHA Women’s Division 1 National Championships, which will include the following three automatic bids:

-(CCWHA) Central Collegiate Women’s Hockey Association
-(WWCHL) Western Women’s Collegiate Hockey League
-(WMCHL) Women’s Midwest College Hockey League

The eighth ranking of the regular season will be released on Tuesday, December 3, 2025.

2025-2026 ACHA WOMEN’S DIVISION 1 RANKING #7