Senior Year (2007-08): Named an assistant captain … played in all but one game … net five goals and two assists for seven points … three of her five goals were power-play goals and one was a game winner … was assigned 24 penalty minutes … took 237 face-offs and won 106 of them .. scored in a one-goal loss to Connecticut on Oct. 20 … tallied a goal in 6-4 loss to No. 3/4 Mercyhurst on Oct. 26 … scored the game-winning goal over Brown on Nov. 9 … gave Colgate a 5-0 lead over Wayne State on Nov. 24 … had her best outing against Niagara on Dec. 8 when she scored a goal and chipped in the game-winning assist in a 3-0 shutout … played in her 100th career game on Dec. 8 against Niagara ... recorded an assist in a 4-3 loss to No. 10 Dartmouth in the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals … named to the ECAC Hockey all-academic team ... named AWCHA National Scholar-Athlete for the third time.
Junior Year (2006-07): Played in 30 games as an assistant captain… finished the season with five assists … had a rating of +6 … picked up her first point of the season against Providence on Oct. 15 … added an assist in an 8-0 shutout of Union on Dec. 1 … tallied two helpers in an 9-0 blanking of Union on Jan. 27 … set up teammate Tara French’s game-winning goal on Feb. 24 against Princeton that advanced Colgate to the ECACHL semifinals ... earned a spot on the ECACHL all-academic team ... named AWCHA National Scholar-Athlete for the second straight year.
Sophomore Year (2005-06): Missed the first half of the season due to an injury ... played her first game against No. 2 UNH on Jan. 4 ... saw action in 19 games ... had 11 points, 10 of which were goals ... recorded four power-play goals ... won 83 face-offs for 44.9% ... scored her first goal of the year in a 3-1 loss to No. 10 Clarkson on Jan. 21 ... recorded the game-tying goal at No. 6 Mercyhurst on Feb. 3 ... netted the only goal of the weekend for the Raiders and first power-play goal since Jan. 7 at Dartmouth on Feb. 17 ... opened the scoring with a first-period goal against Union in Feb. 24...set a personal best five-point game off of four goals and one assist against Union on Feb. 25 ... had two power-play goals against No. 5/6 Princeton on March 4 helping Colgate rally from a three-goal deficit to even the scoring early in the third period ... named to the ECACHL All-Academic Team ... named AWHCA National Scholar-Athlete.
Freshman Year (2004-05): Skated in all 35 games ... finished the season with five goals and eight assists, including four power-play goals ... was second on the team in penalty minutes with 51 ... recorded her first collegiate assist in a 3-0 win over Vermont ... scored first collegiate goal in a 4-1 win over Quinnipiac ... recorded first two-point outing in a 2-1 win over Clarkson ... tallied a goal and an assist in a 5-1 win over Union ... recorded a goal in a 3-2 loss to Dartmouth in the ECACHL quarterfinals ... named Rookie of the Year by the team.
Before Colgate: Played four seasons for the North American Hockey Academy ... named Offensive Player of the Year in 2002-03 and 2003-04 ... scored 28 goals and dished out 27 assists in 54 games during the 2003-04 season ... was a senior captain and played with teammate Kate Wolegmuth ... played varsity soccer and was the Central Vermont Player of the Year in 2003 and was a Burlington Free Press first-team selection in 2002 ... attended Stowe High School.
Personal: Full name is Kara Ellen Leene ... parents are James and Lana Leene of Waterbury Center, Vermont ... has one brother and one sister ... born October 25, 1985 in Burlington, Vermont ... major is sociology and anthropology.
