2025-26 • FRESHMAN SEASON
Awards: Tabbed AHA Freshman of the Month for September/October... Named AHA Forward of the Week on October 14 and the conference’s Rookie of the Week on October 28.
Season: Played for host nation Italy at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, scoring three goals... Appeared in 26 games for the Nittany Lions, missing action for the Winter Olympics... Totaled 23 points on 10 goals and 13 assists... Posted a +19 and recorded 76 shots on goal.
No. 9 St. Lawrence (9/26): Scored her first collegiate goal in the second period. at Delaware (10/10): Earned the first assist of her career on Grace Outwater’s game-opening goal. Delaware (10/11): Set a season-high with four points, scoring twice and assisting on two more goals... Both assists were to Danica Maynard with the goals coming within a few minutes of each other in the third period. Lindenwood (10/24): Scored and assisted on goals in the second period before setting up Outwater’s powerplay goal in the third period. Lindenwood (10/25): Tallied assists on the first two goals of the game before scoring one of her own in the second period. Syracuse (11/14): Assisted on Leah Stecker’s goal in the third before then scored a powerplay goal later in the frame. No. 10 Cornell (12/30): Potted the lone goal of the game on the power play in the third period. at No. 2 Ohio State (1/2): Notched her 10th assist of the season on Maddy Christian’s second period goal. Syracuse (2/27, AHA Semifinals Game One): Notched a three-point performance in her return from Olympic action... Her goal was unassisted in the first period with apples in the second and third frames. No. 12 Mercyhurst (3/7, AHA Championship): Assisted on Mya Vaslet’s game-opening goal. No. 6 UConn (3/14, Regional Final): Scored her 10th goal of the season to open the scoring, proving to be the game-winner in the 3-0 victory.
PRIOR TO PENN STATE
Played for HC Lugano, a club in the Swiss U17 circuit... Appeared in 23 games with a 1-6—7 effort under her belt... Simultaneously represented HC Ambrì-Piotta in the Swiss Women’s Hockey League, making 12 appearances and booked a 7-6—13 season while helping lift HCAP to a third-place finish in the 2024-25 Swiss Women’s National Cup... Member of the Italian Senior Women’s National Team and Italian U18 squad... Finished as the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship Division I B tournament’s leading scorer with a 5-5—10 showing in five appearances, powering Italy to an unbeaten finish at the event while earning the national team promotion to Division I A in 2026... Currently attending all training camps vying for a spot on the Olympic roster for Team Italy ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan.
PERSONAL
She is the youngest daughter of Damiano Fantin and Patrizia Tesini and has one older sister named Margherita... Father, Damiano, played in the Italian second league in men’s hockey, representing HC Como from 1992 to 1996... Off the ice, she enjoys playing and watching tennis.