2012-13 WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY Kennedy’s coaching experience also includes director of on-ice practices and partial owner of the East Coast Wizard Girls Youth Hockey Program, USA Hockey Select Festival coach and director of the Kennedy School of Hockey.
COURTNEY KENNEDY Associate Head Coach Sixth Season Minnesota ’03
Kennedy graduated from Minnesota in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in youth studies and currently lives in Somerville, Mass.
Courtney Kennedy enters her sixth season on the Boston College coaching staff. Kennedy is responsible for recruiting and hockey operations, in addition to her coaching duties and working with the defensive corps. The 2011-12 campaign gave way for another stout defensive effort from the Eagles all season long under Kennedy. BC finished ninth in the nation in scoring defense (2.14 goals per game) and goaltender Corinne Boyles pitched six shutouts while sporting a 2.15 goals against average. In conference play, the Eagles were even stingier allowing only 1.76 goals per game.
2012 EAGLES
The 2010-11 season saw Kennedy’s nationally rated No.5 defense lead Boston College to its first Hockey East Tournament Championship and second appearance in the NCAA Frozen Four. Anchored by Vancouver silver medalist goaltender Molly Schaus, the Eagles limited opposing teams to just 1.70 goals per game and turned in a penalty killing percentage of 88.4, seventh best in the nation. Schaus rated third in nation for save percentage (.942) and 13th in shutouts (4) en route to collecting first team All-American, Hockey East and New England All-Star honors. In the conference, BC topped the stat lines in scoring defense (1.73 goals per game) and goals allowed (64). In her third season coaching the Eagles, Kennedy’s defense held opponents to 2.78 goals per game and had a .909 save percentage. Kennedy came to BC after three years as the head coach of women’s ice hockey at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Mass Kennedy and Head Coach Katie King Crowley were mainstays on the U.S. National Team from XXXX, including being teammates on the 2002 and 2006 U.S. Olympic teams. In 2002, Team USA won the silver medal in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in 2006, it took home the bronze medal in Turin, Italy. Kennedy played for Team USA when it captured the gold medal at the World Championships in 2005. She now sits on the Executive Board of USA Hockey as an Athlete Director. Kennedy, a Woburn, Mass., native, was a two-time All-American defenseman at Minnesota in 1999 and 2001. As a senior in 2001, she earned Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year honors. She was also a Top Three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award given to the most outstanding college player. Kennedy attended at Colby College in Maine for a year before transferring to Minnesota in 1999. Her career statistics as a Gopher include 35 goals and 77 assists for 112 points in 106 games. She ranks second on the Gophers’ all-time defensemen lists for points, goals and assists. Her +136 rating places her sixth all-time among all players. In 2000, she helped lead Minnesota to its first national title.
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