Moon Township, Pa. - For the third-consecutive week, forward Rebecca Vint (Caledon, Ontario / Brampton Junior Thunder) of the Robert Morris University women's hockey team earned an increasingly impressive honor as the freshman was named the College Hockey America (CHA) Rookie of the Month as announced in a league release.
Vint becomes the second active Colonial, joining sophomore Thea Imbrogno (Etobicoke, Ontario / Mississauga Jr. Chiefs), to have won a CHA monthly award. She secured the honor for leading the league in points while helping the Colonials to a 6-1-1 record, the best eight-game start in school history.
Robert Morris has now won back-to-back CHA Rookie of the Month honors and three of the past four overall dating back to last year. A Colonial rookie also has claimed weekly league recognition in six of the last eight regular-season weeks in which Robert Morris has competed.
Vint burst onto the scene in her opening month of collegiate competition by scoring at record rates to lead Robert Morris to a swift start. She tallied three points, on two goals and an assist, in the first 31 minutes of the season opener and never looked back. After tallying two points in her second game, Vint showed a flair for the dramatic early in her career--after notching an assist to pull RMU within one goal, she scored the game-tying goal with fewer than three minutes remaining in regulation against Minnesota State in a contest the Colonials would win in overtime.
In her third weekend, Vint became just the second Colonial in program history to tally at least four points in a game away from home while simultaneously collecting her third multi-goal game in her first five outings. Vint, who won a Player of the Week and a Rookie of the Week award during the month, scored in each of her first six games, the first time any Colonial had ever scored in six consecutive contests, while registering multi-point efforts in five of those affairs.
Vint finished the month with 17 points and nine goals, both new Robert Morris records for the first eight games of a season. She will carry an eight-game point streak, tied for the second longest in RMU history, into November as she enters the season's second month second on the team with a +10 plus/minus. Although her most significant contributions have been in the offensive zone, Vint also ranks second on the team, and first among forwards, in blocked shots with 17.
Vint leads the CHA with 2.12 points per game and is tied for the league lead in both goals per game, 1.12, and assists per game, 1.00. She ranks ninth nationally in points per game and fifth nationally in goals per game and leads all rookies across the country in points.
After traveling to Minnesota to finish off October, Robert Morris has a weekend off for the first time this season. However, when they resume play next weekend, the Colonials will continue their program-record stretch of nine games away from home. RMU will travel to the state of Missouri for the first time in program history for a two-game set with Lindenwood Nov. 12-13.
