2019-20: Captain for second straight season.
2018-19: Named the team's Most Valuable Player by his teammates ... Finalist for the National Collegiate Hockey Conference's Player of the Year ... Also a finalist for the league's defensive defenseman of the year and an honorable mention all-conference pick for the second straight season ... Awarded with the Archie Krum Memorial Athletic Scholarship, given to the player who demonstrates leadership qualities, high academic standards and athletic excellence ... Tallied 17 points with five goals and a dozen assists in 35 games ... Earned NCHC Defenseman of the Week twice (Oct. 29 and Dec. 10) ... Missed his first games of his career, sitting out the Feb. 1-2 series at Denver ... Had played in all 105 career games up to that point ... Scored a pair of goals in the win over Minnesota in Las Vegas, Nev. (Oct. 27) ... Added a goal and an assist the following Friday in a 5-0 blanking of Wisconsin ... Finished the season with a +7 plus/minus rating ... Blocked 33 shots ... Took just one penalty the entire season ... Named an American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) Krampade Division I All American Scholar ... An NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete and NCHC All-Academic member ... Earned third varsity letter.
2017-18 (Sophomore): Named an All-American Scholar by the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) … Tabbed as an All-NCHC Honorable Mention … Also named to the Named to NCHC Academic All-Conference Team and was chosen an NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete … One of three finalists for NCHC’s Defensive Defenseman of the Year Award … Received UND’s Archie Krum Memorial Athletic Scholarship as the “player who demonstrates leadership qualities, high academic standards and athletic excellence” … Also won the team’s Plus/Minus Award after leading the team and ranking sixth among NCHC defensemen with a career-best plus-14 rating … Earned a spot on the University’s President’s Roll of Honor during both the fall and spring semesters … Ranked sixth among NCHC defensemen with a career-high 29 points, more than doubling the 12 he notched as a freshman ... Ranked fifth among NCHC defenders in assists (22) and sixth in goals (7) … Five of his seven goals came at even-strength … Ranked second on the team with seven points (all assists) during the month of March ... Had an NCHC-leading four assists during the NCHC Quarterfinals and was a plus-3 ... Collected two helpers both nights against Omaha, including assists on both game-winning goals .... Added an assist in each of UND’s two games at the NCHC Frozen Faceoff … Had six multi-point games on the season ... Ranked second on the team with 55 blocked shots … Earned second letter.
2016-17 (Freshman): Tied for fourth among NCHC rookie defensemen in points (12) and ranked fifth in assists (10) and plus/minus (+5) ... Assisted on
Austin Poganski’s GWG in UND’s 1-0 NCHC Frozen Faceoff semifinal win over top-ranked Denver (March 17) ... Had two assists and was a plus-3 in UND’s 5-2 win at Miami in the regular-season finale (March 4) ... Blocked 52 shots, second-most on the team and a total topped by only one other NCHC freshman defenseman (Omaha’s Ryan Jones, 57) ... Scored his first career goal (the GWG) in a 5-1 win over #18 Western Michigan (Dec. 9) ... Collected his first college point with an assist in a 5-4 win over #18 Bemidji State (Oct. 22) ... Was a season-best plus-4 in a 5-2 win at Colorado College (Jan. 27), tying for a team season-best ... Had a goal and two assists in UND’s sweep at Omaha (Jan. 6-7) ... Had a goal and an assist in the series finale for his first multi-point game … Earned first letter.
Before UND: Spent the 2015-16 season with the BCHL’s Penticton Vees, where he was a teammate of future UND teammates
Dixon Bowen and
Tyson Jost … Served as an assistant captain and racked up three goals and 37 assists in 57 games … Ranked fifth among BCHL defensemen in scoring and fourth in assists … Received Penticton’s Unsung Hero and Best Conditioned Athlete awards … Spent the 2014-15 season with the USHL’s Fargo Force and had 10 assists in 46 games … A 2014 graduate of East Grand Forks Senior High School … Led EGF Senior High to a state championship in 2014 under head coach and former UND forward Tyler Palmiscno.
Personal: Majoring in biology … Son of Mark and LeAnne Poolman … Father is the athletic trainer and strength & conditioning coach for UND men’s hockey and played football at UND from 1986-88 … Younger brother of former UND defenseman
Tucker Poolman (2014-17), now with the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets.
