Jack Sadowski 2025 UNH Commit

“I attribute a variety of my success to my staff. My linemates have been unbelievable all yr lengthy.” Jack Sadowski, March 13, 2024

2024 Elite 8 Championship Spotlight Reel

After main New England Prep Faculty Hockey with 37 targets, 45 assists, and 82 factors in 34 common season video games, senior Jack Sadowski fittingly dominated the scoreboard within the Elite 8 Championship recreation. Kimball Union Academy defeated Cushing Academy 4-1 and Sadowski scored 2 targets (and arguably 3) plus an help.

This spotlight reel exhibits all of Sadowski scores in his last prep faculty recreation:

Interview

I had a possibility to interview Jack Sadowski, through e-mail, about his championship season and future plans:

Mike Lowry: Congratulations in your dominant season for Kimball Union Academy in New England Prep Faculty Hockey. KUA completed final season 22-10-1, was seeded #8 within the 2023 Elite 8 Playoffs, and misplaced to #1 Cushing Academy 6-2 within the Quarterfinals. KUA improved to 32-5-0 this season, earned the #2 seed and simply gained the 2024 Elite 8 Championship defeating #1 Cushing 4-1.

What components contributed to your staff’s enchancment this season?

Jack Sadowski: We knew initially of the season we had an ideal staff. We had a bunch of veteran gamers who had the expertise of shedding within the first spherical of the Elite 8 and knew we did not wish to really feel that means once more. We used that as motivation all season.

We have been clearly a better seed this yr which allowed us to get dwelling ice for the primary two rounds. We now have among the finest followers in New England and having the ability to play in entrance of them was nice!

Mike Lowry: Your particular person efficiency was raised to a complete new degree this season. As a KUA junior, you scored 23 targets, 19 assists in 33 video games for a factors per recreation common of 1.27. That manufacturing basically doubled this season to 2.46 PPG with 41 targets, 50 assists in 37 video games. You earned “Participant of the Yr” honors from each Impartial Zone Prep Hockey and U.S. Hockey Report.

What particular person expertise improved this season?

Jack Sadowski: I am not likely positive. I attribute a variety of my success to my staff. My linemates have been unbelievable all yr lengthy. I had already had one yr enjoying with Sam LeDrew so this yr we have been in a position to construct off of final yr’s chemistry and Corwith Simmers was actually what held our line collectively as the middle, he bailed Sam and I out loads on the defensive finish which led to extra manufacturing on the offensive facet for all three of us. I feel all of us labored very well collectively which created extra alternatives for us all through the season.

Lowry: Specializing in the Elite 8 Playoffs, KUA was in very tight video games within the Quarterfinals (5-4 OT over St. George’s) and Semifinals (4-3 OT over Salisbury). You scored the OT winner within the semis. You and the staff actually cranked it up within the 4-1 Championship recreation as you scored 2 official targets (plus a probable third that wasn’t acknowledged) and added an help.

What are a few of your favourite recollections out of your triumphant last recreation enjoying for KUA?

Sadowski: So many nice memories- I feel the atmosphere all through the season however particularly through the playoffs was superior – at Harvard there have been two nice scholar sections that have been loud and cheering the entire recreation.
The championship recreation at Harvard being so near dwelling was nice for me as a result of it allowed so many family and friends members to be there to assist me and my staff.

Lowry: In our October 2022 interview shortly after you dedicated to UNH, you talked about the potential of enjoying for the Muskegon Lumberjacks within the USHL earlier than enrolling at UNH. They’d drafted you within the 2022 Section I Draft. You latterly dedicated to the West Kelowna Warriors within the BCHL for subsequent season.

What components went into your resolution?

Sadowski: An enormous a part of my resolution is that my former linemate Jackson Kyrkostas is there now and will likely be returning subsequent yr after which additionally getting one other yr to play with Sam LeDrew. After speaking with the coaches and administration it felt like an ideal match. I feel West Kelowna goes to assist me develop and get me prepared for UNH which in the end is what’s most necessary.

Impartial Zone Scouting Experiences

NE Prep Championship Sunday Report, March 11, 2024

“Sadowski is a below-average-sized left-shot left wing with elite recreation processing and recreation consciousness. Sure, he had two targets had a 3rd go in however was not counted and had a main help on the primary aim of the sport however it’s the entire little issues that he did that made him so impactful.

On each shift, he set picks or skated by means of a Cushing participant’s lane so that they must break stride to pursue his teammates. Within the defensive zone, Sadowski did his job and was there to lend assist when his teammates wanted it with out vacating his ice. And as a left-wing who had the huge lane twice, he modified when he was supposed to vary so the movement of the KUA’s offense was not disrupted.

His arms are silky. His passes have been the place his teammates might make the subsequent play without having to regulate their routes or their hand placement. And his pictures have been cash.”