Holy Angels netminder chooses Lindenwood for her hockey future – The Rink Live

RICHFIELD, Minn. — The stock for Zoe Rimstad has increased dramatically over the past 18 months.

The netminder at the Academy of Holy Angels took the Minnesota high school hockey scene by storm as a sophomore by earning an impressive .940 save percentage, a 1.00 goals-against average and five shutouts in 2022-23, prior to a whirlwind of a summer where she was selected to compete in the USA Hockey-BioSteel Girls Under-18 Select Player Development Camp, where only the very best of the best are chosen to compete in front of many various coaches and scouts from across the country.

Despite all of the exposure in the summer of 2023, and the terrific statistics from her sophomore season, it still took a few months for the Minnesotan to start connecting with Division I college hockey coaches and having recruiting conversations with various programs. Some schools wound up connecting with Rimstad in the fall but by then both the collegiate and the high school hockey seasons were just starting to pick up, so the now 17-year-old goaltender just focused on playing the best that she could as a junior without worrying too much about the commitment process.

The Stars became a top team in Class A in 2023-24 thanks to a deep roster and some solid goaltending from Rimstad and her fellow Holy Angels netminder Eva Bentley. In fact, the team only lost three games, two to Class AA teams, before earning a berth to the 2024 Minnesota Girls State Tournament.

At the legendary state tournament, the Stars

won its quarterfinal matchup against Luverne, 6-1,

before falling in a tight

semifinal contest to Warroad, 3-2.

“I think it went really good [the 2023-24 season]. I think we overcame a lot. It’s difficult to lose to Warroad in that semifinal game, but I think we learned a lot from the whole experience this season … I think we learned a lot about how we work as a team and our team dynamic, and I think that was really important,” said Rimstad about her junior year with the Stars.

Once the high school season concluded, the Minnesota native attended a couple of camps and then eventually talks with collegiate programs started to become more frequent again as the women’s college hockey season wrapped up in the spring.