Meaghan Sittler

Meaghan Sittler attended the Nichols School and graduated in 1994. She was an outstanding softball player and was a member of the tennis team all four years. And even though Nichols didn’t have a girls hockey team when she was a student, it was on the ice where she truly excelled.

At one of the first girls development camps in Minnesota, organized by USA Hockey, Sittler was the highest ranked player from New York state. While attending Nichols, she played for the Buffalo Bisons Midget Girls Hockey Team and led the Bisons to two straight state championships in 1993 and 1994.

After graduating from high school, Sittler attended Colby College in Maine and was a member of the women’s hockey team all four years. In her first season at Colby, she led the team to the finals of the All-American Women’s Ice Hockey Tournament and earned ECAC Rookie of the Year honors. By the time she had graduated in 1998, she was a 2-time ECAC Co-Player of the year and a 3-time All-ECAC Selection. She was the NCAA scoring champion in 1996 and in her senior year she was on the Women’s American College Hockey Alliance All-American team. In 1998, Sittler was presented with the E.W. Millet ’25 Award at Colby which is presented annually to the female Colby athlete who has contributed most to Colby athletics over 4 years. Today, nearly 30 years after graduating, she is still Colby’s all-time leading scorer.

In addition to her success at Colby, Sittler has also represented the United States several times in international competition. In 1996 she played for Team USA at the Pacific Rim Women’s Hockey Championship, and in 1998 and 1999 she played for Team USA at the Three Nations Cup. She was also a member of the US Select Team in 1999-2000. She also played professionally for five seasons for the Brampton Thunder in the National Women’s Hockey League, where she averaged more than a point a game in more than 100 games.

Sittler is one of only four women’s hockey players at Colby College to have her number retired. She was inducted into the Nichols Hall of Fame in 2014.