12 - Janelle Ferrara
Janelle Ferrara
Height: 5-6
Year: Fr.
Hometown: Winthrop, Mass.
High School: Rivers
Position: F
Major: Undeclared
Previous Team: Assabet Valley
S/C: L
Residential College: Silliman

USA Hockey: Attended player development camps at ages 15, 16 and 17.

Before Yale: National Champions with Assabet Valley in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2012 … Captained Rivers School ice hockey team as a senior … First team Division II New England Girls Prep All-Star … All-ISL for ice hockey junior and senior year … Led Rivers with 53 points as a senior… Had 143 career points at Rivers … Scored 100th career goal for Rivers shorthanded in game at Fenway Park … Captained field hockey team as a senior … All ISL for field hockey senior year … New England Class C Champions in field hockey.

Notes: Father, Frank, played baseball and hockey at RPI … Mother, Lisa, played basketball at Bentley … Sister, Nicole, is a sophomore ice hockey player at Syracuse … Played on a line with current Yale teammate Jamie Haddad for Assabet.

Why Yale? “I chose Yale because it is not only a place where I can excel in academics, but has a hockey program with a facility, coach and team with whom I can see myself playing the sport I love.”