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UW Honors: WCHA Forward of the Month (Sept./Oct. 2019) (Jan. 2021)... HCA Player of the Month (Sept./Oct. 2019, Jan./March 2021)... WCHA Forward of the Week (Oct. 15, Nov. 26, Feb. 4, 2019-20) (Jan. 18, Jan. 25, Feb. 8 2020-21) (Dec. 13, 2021)... 2021 WCHA Preseason Player of the Year... 2021 All-WCHA Team... 2021 WCHA Player of the Year... 2021 WCHA Forward of the Year...  NCAA Second Star of the Week (Nov. 26, 2019) ... NCAA First Star of the Week (Feb. 4, 2020) ... All-WCHA First Team (2020, 2021)... 2020 Second Team All-American... 2021 First Team All-American... 2021 WCHA Scholar-Athlete... named top-10 finalist for the 2020 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award... named top-three finalist for the 2021 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award... USCHO Player of the Year 2020-21

2020-21: Co-Captain, saw the ice in all 21 games with the National Championship team and was a Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award top-three finalist. Watts was named Preseason WCHA Player of the Year and also to the Preseason All-WCHA Team... WCHA Forward of the Week (Jan. 18, Jan. 25, Feb. 8)... WCHA Forward of the Month (Jan. and March)... HCA National Player of the Month (Jan. and March)... WCHA Forward of the Year... WCHA Player of the Year... WCHA Scholar-Athlete... USCHO Player of the Year... First Team All-American... ran a 10 game point streak with season totals of 11 goals and eight assists... recorded first hat trick on Jan. 22 at St. Cloud State, scored six points in that game with three goals and three assists... season high three blocks and four points against Minnesota on Jan. 16... led the WCHA in point scoring, goal scoring, game-winning goals and plus/minus.. tied first in WCHA in power play points... second in the WCHA in assist scoring... recorded a plus/minus rating of +27... tied second in NCAA for game-winning goals... fourth in NCAA for goals per game and points per game... recorded 36 points over the season with 19 goals and 17 assists... scored five game-wining goals, including an overtime goal at Minnesota Duluth to help the Badgers claim the WCHA regular-season title and the overtime game-winning goal in the National Championship game

2019-20: Despite a playoff schedule that ended early before the Badgers’ 2020 NCAA quarterfinal game against Clarkson, Watts played in all 36 games this season helping UW to a WCHA regular season title … recorded 25 goals and led the NCAA with 49 assists … helped UW set a program record of 35.2 power-play goals notching three power-play goals ... held the NCAA lead in points from game one of the season ending in 74 points … was the only collegiate player in the nation to average more than 2.00 points per game … broke the Badgers' school record with her 49th assist of the season, picked up her 200th collegiate point on Abby Roque's first goal of the game and scored the 3-on-3 critical point goal which landed on ESPN Sportscenter top-10 plays of the week in UW’s 5-5 tie in the final regular season game against Minn. Duluth (Feb. 23) which also earned her the NCAA Third Star of the Week and the WCHA Forward of the Week (Feb. 28) … became the first Badger to record 60 points in a season since 2011-12 in UW’s 5-0 win over St. Cloud State (Feb. 1), an eight-point weekend for Watts … had an empty-netter with 32 seconds left in UW’s 3-0 win over No. 2 Minnesota at home (Jan. 25) … tallied her 100th career assist against Bemidji State (Jan. 11) … tallied her first short-handed goal as a Badger in UW’s 3-1 win over Robert Morris at the Battle at the Burgh (Jan. 4) which doubled as her 50th point of the season … earned all-tournament honors at the Battle at the Burgh (Jan. 4-5) … posted her ninth-straight goal in eight games in UW”s 4-3 win over MInnesota Duluth (Dec. 6) … named the NCAA Second Star of the Week and the WCHA Forward of the Week (Nov. 25) after putting up a seven-point weekend against St.Cloud State (Nov. 21-22) and was averaging a high of 2.56 points per game at that point in the season … netted her 150th career point (Oct. 18) … blew records away from the start already holding the programs most points in eight games with 25 at the time after UW’s 12-0 win over LIU (Oct. 19) … had a seven-straight game scoring streak since game 1 (Sept. 27-Oct. 18) which is tied for the fourth-longest streak in program history … enjoyed three-straight seven-point weekends against Penn State (Oct. 4-5), OSU (Oct. 11-12) and LIU (Oct. 18-19) during which Watts earned her first WCHA Forward of the Week (Oct. 15) and WCHA Forward of the Month (Sept./Oct.) .... was the only collegiate player in the nation to average more than 2.00 points per game and ended with a +33

2018-19 (at Boston College): For her performance during her sophomore year, Watts was named a Hockey East Second Team All-Star, NEHW All-New England Team and Hockey East All-Tournament Team, skating in all 39 contests and leading the team with 48 points (22 goals, 26 assists), 16 multi-point outings and five game-winning goals. 

2017-18 (at Boston College): The Toronto native had one of the most decorated freshman campaigns in women’s hockey history, winning the 2018 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award as the national player of the year, the first-ever underclassman to win the award. She did so by leading the country in scoring with 82 points in 38 games, posting a nation’s best in points per game (2.6), goals (42) and power-play goals (10).

Prep: Watts was a two-time member of Canada’s U-18 National Team, skating with the team at the 2016 and 2017 IIHF U-18 World Championships, winning silver both years. While with the U-18s, Watts was one of the youngest participants in Canada’s 2016 Women’s National Team’s Fall Festival, leading Team Ontario Red to victories in the 2015 and 2016 U-18 Canada Women’s National Championships.

Personal: Daughter of Michael Watts and Barbara Karabin… has an older brother Jackson… likes to spend time golfing… favorite show is Game of Thrones… loves to eat steak and listen to Drake… major is undeclared

Why Wisconsin?
“The amazing coaches and players and the beautiful city and campus.”