U18 Women’s Worlds Preview: Canada vs. Switzerland

CALGARY, Alta. –Hockey Canada
has unveiled the teaching staffs 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 2023-24 season, with seven alumnae amongst these behind
the bench.

Troy Ryan (Spryfield, NS) returns for his fourth 12 months
behind the bench as head coach of Canada’s National Women’s Team, joined by
assistant coaches Kori Cheverie (New Glasgow, NS),

Caroline Ouellette (Montreal, QC/Concordia University, RSEQ)

and Courtney Birchard-Kessel (Mississauga, ON/Boston University, HE),
in addition to goaltending advisor

Brad Kirkwood (Calgary, AB)

and video coach Andrew Boucher (Timmins, ON).

“We’re excited in regards to the teaching workers, together with quite a lot of alumnae, we
have assembled for our girls’s applications for the upcoming season,” stated
Gina Kingsbury (Rouyn-Noranda, QC), vice-president of
hockey operations. “We are grateful for the dedication a lot of our coaches
make to return 12 months after 12 months to steer and develop our athletes, and look
ahead to the management and experience they’ll herald main our
groups on the worldwide stage.”

Ryan just lately grew to become the primary coach to serve on the
teaching workers for each Canada’s National Men’s Team and Canada’s National
Women’s Team, profitable a gold medal as an assistant on the 2023 IIHF World
Championship and silver as head coach on the 2023 IIHF Women’s World
Championship. Ryan goes into his fifth season as head coach of the
National Women’s Team after serving as an assistant coach for almost 4
seasons (2016-19). Ryan coached Team Canada to back-to-back gold medals at
the IIHF Women’s World Championship (2021, 2022), along with a gold
medal on the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. He additionally earned a silver medal at
the 2018 Olympics, silver Women’s Worlds in 2017 and bronze in 2019.

Cheverie gained a silver medal as an assistant coach with
Canada’s National Women’s Team on the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship.
She additionally added gold medals as an assistant at Women’s Worlds in 2021 and
2022, and on the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Cheverie grew to become the primary lady
to serve on the teaching workers with one among Canada’s nationwide males’s groups at
the 2022 IIHF U18 World Championship. Nationally, she gained a silver medal as
head coach of Team Nova Scotia on the 2023 Canada Winter Games, the
province’s first-ever medal in girls’s hockey. She was additionally the primary lady
employed as a full-time assistant coach in U SPORTS with the Ryerson
University males’s hockey crew for 5 seasons (2016-21).

Ouellette was just lately introduced as an honoured member of
the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023. In May, she was additionally inducted into
the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Hall of Fame. She is
coming into her third season because the affiliate head coach at Concordia
University. Internationally, she gained a silver medal as an assistant coach
with Canada’s National Women’s Team on the 2023 IIHF Women’s World
Championship, together with gold in 2022 and bronze in 2019. As a participant, she
gained 4 Olympic gold medals and 6 world championships throughout an
illustrious 17-year worldwide profession.

Birchard-Kessel is coming into her first 12 months as an assistant
coach at Boston University. Prior to becoming a member of BU, she spent 4 seasons as
an assistant coach with the Princeton University girls’s hockey crew
(2019-23). She gained a gold medal as head coach of Canada’s National Women’s
Under-18 Team on the 2023 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship, and gold as
an assistant at U18 Women’s Worlds in 2019, and has been an assistant with
Canada’s National Women’s Development Team on two events (2017, 2019).

Canada’s National Women’s Team will head to southern Ontario for its Fall
Festival coaching camp from Sept. 10-17, in preparation for the 2023-24
season, which incorporates the Rivalry Series, with dates and places to be
introduced sooner or later. The season will conclude with the 2024 IIHF
Women’s World Championship, tentatively scheduled for April 2024 in Utica,
New York.

For a full listing of workers for Canada’s National Women’s Team and an inventory of camp assist workers, please click on right here.

Cheverie returns as head coach of Canada’s National Women’s
Development Team, alongside assistant coaches

Rachel Flanagan (Pontypool, ON/University of Guelph, OUA)

, Noémie Marin (Acton Vale, QC/John Abbott College, CEGEP)
and Cassandra Turner (Campbellford, ON/Quinnipiac University, ECAC),
in addition to goaltending coach

Sheldon Goertzen (Saskatoon, SK/University of Saskatchewan, CW)

and Boucher as video coach.

Flanagan just lately accomplished her sixteenth season as head coach of
the University of Guelph girls’s hockey crew. During her tenure, Flanagan
has led the Gryphons to a U SPORTS nationwide title in 2019, along with
three Ontario University Athletics (OUA) titles, and she or he has been named the
OUA Coach of the Year on 5 events. She served as an assistant coach
with Canada’s National Women’s Team through the Rivalry Series in December
2022, has served as an assistant with Canada’s National Women’s Development
Team 3 times (2011, 2012, 2022) and was acknowledged as a BFL Female
Coach of the Year in 2020-21.

Marin is coming into her ninth season as the ladies’s hockey
head coach at John Abbott College. She was beforehand the top coach of
Kuper Academy (2012-14). Marin led the event crew as head coach
through the 2016-17 season and was an assistant with Canada’s National
Women’s Under-18 Team on the 2015 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship. On
the nationwide stage, she was an assistant with Quebec on the 2015 National
Women’s Under-18 Championship and led Quebec to silver as head coach on the
2019 Canada Winter Games.