{"id":85314,"date":"2018-03-13T18:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=85314"},"modified":"2020-08-24T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:07:46","slug":"hockey-humanitarian-award-finalist-spotlight-yales-pensavalle-makes-serving-others-a-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2018\/03\/13\/hockey-humanitarian-award-finalist-spotlight-yales-pensavalle-makes-serving-others-a-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Humanitarian Award finalist spotlight: Yale\u2019s Pensavalle makes serving others a priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"ps_captionIns\" aria-describedby=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/img-show\/I0000lz2fHVNn7Uc\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo By: Yale Athletics\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Pensavalle2-1.jpg\" alt=\" (Yale Athletics)\" width=\"680\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Pensavelle has proven to be valuable on and off the ice for Yale over the course of her career (photo: Yale Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Standing at the blue line after the starters have been named, her position at the boards closest to her bench throws off the numerical order, but Courtney Pensavalle belongs there.<\/p>\n<p>She slips the microphone from the timekeepers\u2019 box and begins to sing the national anthem in a warm, powerful alto. Like much of her Yale career, she stands shoulder-to-shoulder with her Bulldogs teammates but represents something of her own.<\/p>\n<p>The senior has shown during her undergraduate tenure that same duality: a focus on community, team culture and those in need around her. Her largest contribution has come as the leader of the Mandi Schwartz Foundation through the Yale women\u2019s hockey team.<\/p>\n<p>Honoring a former Yale player who was diagnosed with leukemia in 2011 and passed away before the end of her college career, the group\u2019s dedication to Be the Match and bone marrow drives lives on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hockeyhumanitarian.org\/news\/yales-courtney-pensavalle-makes-serving-others-a-priority\/\">Read the rest here on the Hockey Humanitarian Award website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing at the blue line after the starters have been named, her position at the boards closest to her bench throws off the numerical order, but Courtney Pensavalle belongs there (photo: Yale Athletics).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":112304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[819],"coauthors":[901],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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