APPLETON –  A four-year player on the Chippewa Falls-Menomonie girls hockey team, Menomonie’s Ashley Slupe is now a member of the Lawrence University women’s hockey program.

The Vikings played a pair of exhibition games last weekend and will open the 2025-26 season by hosting a pair of non-conference games with the College of St. Scholastica, Friday, Oct. 31 and Saturday, Nov. 1 at the Champion Center in Appleton. Lawrence is affiliated with the NCAA Division III and is a member of the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association. The Vikings finished last season at 6-17-4 overall, 3-11-4 in the NCHA. Head coach Greg Moore enters his third season at Lawrence.

The 5-foot-9 left-handed defenseman was a four-year starter for the CFM Sabers, combining defensive reliability with a strong offensive touch. As a senior captain in 2025, Slupe earned Big Rivers Conference honorable mention recognition after tallying three goals and 11 assists, including two game-winning goals over 23 games.

In 2024, Slupe was named CFM’s Defensive Player of the Year and earned second-team all-conference honors as the Sabers finished second in the Big Rivers standings. A year earlier, she received honorable mention all-conference and contributed eight goals and six assists, including three game-winners, as CFM again placed second in the conference.

Slupe broke into the lineup as a freshman in 2022, earning the team’s Saber Award for her performance and attitude. That season, she recorded five goals and four assists in 23 games, establishing herself as a dependable two-way defenseman and a fixture in the Sabers’ defensive core.

Slupe closed her four-year varsity career at Chippewa Falls-Menomonie with 19 goals, 26 assists and 45 points in 93 games, netting six game-winning goals from the blue line.

Her success has extended beyond high school hockey. Slupe has been a member of the Tier II Wisconsin Selects since her freshman year, helping the program earn national recognition. The Selects reached the USA Hockey National Tournament in 2022 and 2023, finishing as national runner-up in 2022. This past season, Slupe and her teammates captured the 2024 USA Hockey Tier II National Championship, where she was named to the All-Tournament Team after posting two goals, three assists and a game-winning goal at nationals.

Slupe also played soccer and tennis at Menomonie High School.

Layne Pitt retired as the longest serving sports information director at UW-Stout and also worked more than a decade at the Dunn County News.

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