National women’s under-18 team unveiled for 2023 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship
CALGARY, Alta. – The stage is about for Canada’s National Women’s Team, Canada’s National Women’s Development Team and Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team for the 2022-23 season, with 10 coaches set to serve behind the bench, together with an all-woman workers for the under-18 crew.
Troy Ryan (Spryfield, N.S.) returns for his third yr as head coach of Canada’s National Women’s Team, joined by assistant coaches Kori Cheverie (New Glasgow, N.S.), Alison Domenico (Ottawa, Ont./Providence College, HE) and Caroline Ouellette (Montreal, Que./Concordia University, RSEQ), in addition to goaltending coach Brad Kirkwood (Calgary, Alta./University of Calgary, CW) and video coach James Emery (Calgary, Alta.).
“We are thrilled to welcome Troy, Kori, Ali, Brad and James back to our National Women’s Team for another season, and to add a high-caliber coach like Caroline to our staff,” stated Gina Kingsbury (Rouyn-Noranda, Que.), director of hockey operations with Hockey Canada. “Our women’s program is looking to build off of the momentum we gained last season, and we believe we have assembled a staff that will allow us to do exactly that while benefitting our athletes.”
Ryan most lately led Canada to gold medals on the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship and 2022 Olympic Winter Games. He additionally earned a silver medal on the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, silver on the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship and bronze on the 2019 IIHF Women’s World Championship as an assistant coach. He has served because the Atlantic Canada feminine coach mentor with the Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic since 2016.
Cheverie gained gold medals as an assistant coach on the 2022 Olympic Winter Games and 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship. She grew to become the primary girl to function a coach with one in every of Canada’s nationwide males’s groups on the 2022 IIHF U18 World Championship and was additionally the primary girl employed as a full-time assistant coach in U SPORTS, the place she was an assistant the Ryerson University males’s hockey crew for 5 seasons (2016-21).
Domenico lately completed her first season as affiliate head coach with the Providence College girls’s hockey crew following three seasons as an assistant coach. Most lately, she gained a gold medal as an assistant coach on the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. She was additionally named an assistant coach with Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team for the 2021-22 season earlier than being added to the Olympic teaching workers.
Ouellette is coming into her second season as affiliate head coach of the ladies’s hockey crew at Concordia University after serving as interim head coach through the 2020-21. On the worldwide stage, she gained bronze as an assistant coach with Canada’s National Women’s Team on the 2019 IIHF Women’s World Championship and silver with Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team on the 2009 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship. As a participant, she gained 4 Olympic gold medals and 6 world titles with Canada’s National Women’s Team throughout a 17-year worldwide profession.
Canada’s National Women’s Team will collect in Calgary for choice camp from Aug. 2-14 forward of the 2022 IIHF Women’s World Championship, set for Aug. 24-Sept. 4 in Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark.
On the under-18 aspect, Courtney Birchard-Kessel (Mississauga, Ont./Princeton University, ECAC) will make her worldwide head teaching debut with Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team. She will probably be joined by assistant coaches Stefanie McKeough (Carlsbad Springs, Ont./University of Ottawa, OUA) and Tara Watchorn (Newcastle, Ont./Stonehill College, NEWHA), in addition to goaltending coach Gord Woodhall (Winnipeg, Man./Winnipeg, MFHL) and video coach Stef Thomson (Oshawa, Ont.).
Birchard-Kessel has been an assistant coach with the Princeton University girls’s hockey crew for the previous three seasons (2019-22). She additionally gained a gold medal as an assistant coach with Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team on the 2019 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship, and has been an assistant with Canada’s National Women’s Development Team twice (2017, 2019).
McKeough lately accomplished her second season as an assistant coach with the University of Ottawa girls’s hockey crew (2020-22). She beforehand served as head coach of Göteborg HC of the Svenka Damhockeyligen (SDHL) in Sweden through the 2020 season after two years (2018-19) as an assistant. As a participant, McKeough gained a silver medal with Canada on the 2009 IIHF World Women’s U18 Championship.
Watchorn is getting ready for the primary season of girls’s hockey at Stonehill College after serving as an assistant coach with Boston College for 4 seasons (2017-20). She lately gained a gold medal as an assistant coach with Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team on the 2022 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship, and was an assistant with Canada’s National Women’s Development Team for a three-game collection towards the United States in 2019.
Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team will collect in Calgary from Aug. 2-14 for choice forward of a three-game collection towards the United States, Aug. 17-20, in addition to the 2023 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship in Sweden.
Cheverie may even take the reigns as head coach of Canada’s National Women’s Development Team, joined by assistant coaches Rachel Flanagan (Pontypool, Ont./University of Guelph, OUA) and Marc-André Côté (Montreal, Que./University of Moncton, AUS), in addition to goaltending coach Perry Wilson (LaSalle, Ont./University of Windsor, OUA) and video coach Richard Bue (Ottawa, Ont.).
Flanagan is coming into her sixteenth season as head coach of the University of Guelph girls’s hockey crew, the place she helped safe the crew’s first-ever nationwide championship in 2019. She has additionally captured 5 Ontario University Athletics (OUA) titles, has been named the OUA Coach of the Year on 5 events, has served as assistant coach of Canada’s National Women’s Development Team twice (2011, 2012) and was named a BFL Female Coach of the Year in 2021.
Côté lately served as head coach of the University of Moncton girls’s hockey crew for 2 seasons (2018-20) after spending the earlier 5 seasons (2013-18) as an assistant coach, the place he gained an Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championship. He additionally served as a camp coach at Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team choice camp in 2022.
Canada’s National Women’s Development Team will be part of Canada’s National Women’s Team for choice camp in Calgary from Aug. 2-14 and can compete in a three-game collection towards the United States from Aug. 17-20.
“This is an exciting time for Canada’s National Women’s Program as we welcome a staff of experienced coaches that have been involved at many levels of our program to lead our National Women’s Under-18 Team and National Women’s Development Team this season,” Kingsbury stated. “It is also exciting to have all three of our national women’s teams in Calgary to kick off a new hockey season, and we look forward to welcoming our athletes and assembling teams for multiple events this summer.”
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