All of these individual stories are part of a bigger project highlighting Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey alumnae in the PWHL. For information about the individual teams click here. The articles reflect the 2025-26 season rosters.
BOSTON FLEET
The Boston Fleet are based in the Greater Boston area, playing home games at Tsongas Center, home to the UMass Lowell River Hawks. The Fleet is one of the PWHL’s six inaugural teams.
Three former Bobcats suit up for the Fleet this season: forward Olivia Mobley, forward Shay Maloney ‘23 and defenseman Zoe Boyd ‘23. The team is also led by a former Bobcat forward Danielle Marmer ‘17, as its general manager.
Boyd played five years donning the navy and gold. In her final year with the Bobcats, she served as the co-captain with now-Seattle Torrent forward Lexie Adzija ‘23.
“They’re very different from one another,” Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey head coach Cass Turner said. “They’re both very confident in who they are, but I think they found common ground and got along well. They’re both great.”
Being from Canada, hockey was “just what we do here,” as Boyd said. Her older brother played and Boyd laughed that her parents made her start playing “probably so they could put me in the hockey camps with my brother to get rid of me for the week too.”
The Caledon, Ontario native played 135 games for the Bobcats, missing out on her junior season due to injury. For Boyd, Quinnipiac was a love at first sight, when she visited the campus in the winter.
“It was freezing cold at home, like disgustingly cold,” Boyd laughed. “And then I got to Quinnipiac and I remember it was a sunny day, sweater weather and I was just like ‘Oh, my God, I am meant for Connecticut.’”
In her four years on the ice, she notched nine goals and 41 assists for 50 points, while tallying 118 blocked shots.
“The culture that they had created at Quinnipiac was a culture that has stuck with me ever since and will stick with me for the rest of my life,” Boyd said.
Boyd was drafted in the inaugural PWHL draft, in 2023, as the 52rd pick in the ninth round by the Ottawa Charge, where she played for the last two seasons. Despite the early success, Boyd looks back at the time after her graduation as “nerve-wracking.”
“I wasn’t extremely confident that I was going to get drafted or where I would be drafted if I had that opportunity,” Boyd said. “When I heard my name called, I can’t even put into words how amazing that moment was for me and my family. It was a dream come true.”
Boyd skated in 39 games with the Charge, amassing six assists across two seasons.
Her first game as a professional women’s ice hockey player came in Ottawa’s home opener at TD Place Arena with 8,318 people in the crowd. It was also where she earned her first assist.
That game is something that Boyd will never forget, as the loud roar of the crowd welcomed her onto the ice.
“I think I blacked out for majority of the game, but it was hands down the coolest experience I’ve ever had in my life,” Boyd said. “I looked up and the entire stadium was full, everybody on their feet, screaming and cheering. It was maybe the coolest moment of my life.”
During her time with the Charge, she once again shared the ice with her former teammates Adzija and former goaltender Logan Angers ‘24. This time for the Fleet she’ll once again dress right next to her former “family,” as she called it, with Maloney and Mobley joining the Fleet.
“Every time I see a Bobcat around, even if they’re on different teams. I feel such a sense of pride,” Boyd said. “It means a ton. We went through the same things, we know the same people. It brings me a great sense of pride to see all those girls doing great things.”
Boyd has yet to record a point in her first season with Boston.
On the second offensive line, Maloney joined Boyd in suiting up for the Fleet.
Maloney transferred to Quinnipiac for her graduate season after spending four years at Brown University.
Despite all of the players that had their season impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Ivy League schools did not allow players to stay for that fifth ‘bonus’ year, forcing Maloney to find a new school to call home.
“I am so grateful for both opportunities, both to attend Brown and Quinnipiac, because they both taught me very valuable lessons along the way,” Maloney said. “It was just a completely different experience than I had at Brown.”
For Maloney, it was never a question that she was going to be a hockey player, and her three older brothers might have something to do with it.
Despite her mom wishing to have a figure skater on her hands, Maloney knew that it was a stick that belonged to hers.
She netted 15 goals and 16 assists in her one season with the Bobcats.
Despite the PWHL being established before she graduated, Maloney had already signed with a Swedish team Leksands IF before making the move to the Fleet a year later.
“I got to see it grow from the outside and kind of watch the hype build,” Maloney said. “And then stepping into the second season, when things were kind of ironed out, it was so cool to see and it’s so much fun to be a part of.”
Maloney was the only former Bobcat to be selected in the 2024 PWHL Draft as the 34th pick in the sixth round.
It wasn’t her first time playing professional hockey, but it sure didn’t soften the pressure. Maloney remembers that moment all too well.
“I remember taking a second to look around in the warm-ups, and being like ‘This isn’t just about me, this is about the sports, about all the little girls that have dreamed of this opportunity,’” Maloney said. “It took me back to when I first started skating and how I never imagined being in that moment.”
She was not surprised in the slightest to find out that she would be sharing the ice with former Quinnipiac players as well. The success of former Bobcats did not come as a shock to her, as she stressed one key detail that sets Turner and the rest of the coaching staff apart.
“The importance of doing the little details right,” Maloney said. “That translates really well when you get to the professional level. It’s always in the back of my mind and that definitely contributes to a lot of the success of the girls.”
Now, in her second season with the Fleet, as of Jan. 20, Maloney sits on two goals and one assist.
Another Bobcat to find success alongside these girls is Mobley who spent three seasons in Hamden. She then transferred to Ohio State University for her senior year and later played at the University of Minnesota Duluth in her fifth season.
Mobley chose to transfer after her junior year to test a league outside of the ECAC, as she felt like something was missing in her experience at Quinnipiac.
“The decision came from wanting to experience a different perspective or side of the game,” Mobley said. “ECAC has a very unique style to their game and they’re extremely hard to play against. I’m super grateful I got my three years there.”
In those three years, she recorded 34 goals and 51 assists in 93 appearances.
Even though she transferred, Mobley found life-long friends among the Bobcats, as she and the rest of her class were “right off the bat glued to the hip.”
Mobley was selected by the Fleet as the 18th pick in the third round in the 2025 PWHL draft.
“Mobes is an incredibly dynamic player, somebody I expect to continue to do well in this league too,” Turner said.
Playing across three teams in two different NCAA Conferences gives Mobley a type of advantage that not everyone can have.
“I think each year I just got a better understanding of who I am on the ice and off the ice,” Mobley said. “I move around so much, but I think every place has propelled me forward in a good way.”
As a part of preseason camp, Mobley was joined by four other former Quinnipiac players, a familiarity that she said helped her adjust allowed her to exhale a little bit.
“Having that comfort, I can be more confident on the ice, knowing that I got Bobcats who have my back and I have their back too,” Mobley said. “Just knowing that we came from a really good spot and that we all have what it takes to be here.”
Mobley has three goals and one assist to her name on the season as of Jan. 20.
NEW YORK SIRENS
The New York Sirens play in Newark, New Jersey, and are one of the league’s original six. The Sirens were the first ever team to win a PWHL game after their 4-0 win against Toronto on Jan. 1, 2024.
Two former Bobcats don the turquoise, navy and white in 2025-26, forward Taylor Girard ‘21 and goaltender Kayley Doyle ‘25.
Girard transferred to Quinnipiac as a junior after playing two seasons at Lindenwood University.
“I chose Quinnipiac just because it felt like home to me,” Girard said. “Just the area, seeing the ice rink and the facilities, meeting the staff and the girls, it just felt like this is somewhere that I could get better and that’s what I wanted out of my college career.”
Girard has seen the ice from every position, starting off as a goaltender, then a defenseman and has now found a permanent position as a forward. She learned how to skate from her brother on a little ice rink that her father would build in their backyard during the winter.
In her two years with Quinnipiac the Macomb, Michigan native totaled 34 points and held a six-game point streak her junior year.
“She’s a lot of fun, she’s big, she’s strong,” Turner said. “I think she started to really realize how to play off the puck, that’s something she gained while she was with us and she’s always had this explosive nature to her game, ability to score, create breakaways, but I think she really figured out how to be more available for her teammates, how to defend at a higher level and it was a lot of fun to have her.”
Despite only playing with the Bobcats for a short time, as the pandemic cut her senior year short, Girard credits Quinnipiac for molding her into the player she is today.
Girard was drafted in the ninth round as the 51st pick in the 2023 PWHL draft, by the Boston Fleet. She was the third overall former Quinnipiac player to be drafted into the PWHL.
“It was a wild few months for me, because I was in the PHF,” Girard said. “Obviously that folded, so women’s hockey was a little crazy for a bit and I wasn’t really sure if I was even gonna play hockey anymore. I wasn’t sure if I was gonna get drafted. But it was awesome to hear my name get called in the draft and show up. Now going into my third season, it’s been pretty incredible.”
She appeared in 28 games for the Fleet before signing with New York. Last season, she played in 18 games for the Sirens, totaling three points.
In New York’s 2025-26 season opener, Girard scored a hat-trick in the Sirens’ 4-0 win over the Ottawa Charge. This earned her a nod to the Season Three’s first Starting Six — the league’s list of top three forwards, two defenders and a goalie based on the previous month.
Since then, she’s earned another two goals and an assist, as of Jan. 20.
Doyle joins the Sirens and Girard in the crease. She spent a year as a Bobcat after graduating from Brown University.
At Brown, she played in 76 games, with the lowest save percentage .917 in her junior season. At Quinnipiac, she started her season with back-to-back shutouts out of her eight total on the season and started 28 games, with a career high save percentage of .945 and was second in the nation.
Doyle was selected 41st overall by the Sirens in the 2025 PWHL draft. She has not yet appeared in the net for the Sirens as of Jan. 20.
