Boston College Women's Ice Hockey

Crowley arrived at The Heights the Boston College womens hockey team has undergone a transformation. From a sub-.500 team when she arrived as an assistant coach to a national power nine years after becoming head coach, Crowley has established the Eagles as the Easts preeminent team and one of the elite programs in the nation.   The three-time U.S. Olympian brings her 2016-17 team into the season with just one goal: the NCAA Championship.   In her nine seasons as head coach, Crowley has guided BC teams to the teams first-ever NCAA Championship game (2016), five NCAA Frozen Fours (2011, 2012, 2013, 201, 2016), three straight Hockey East regular-season titles (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16), two Hockey East tournament titles (2011, 2016) and four Beanpot titles (2009, 2011, 2014, 2016).   Her players have been just as prolific, earning the 2015 Patty Kazmaier Award, 10 Patty Kazmaier Award Finalist nods, 11 All-America honors, four of the last eight Hockey East Players of the Year awards and four conference rookies of the year awards, in addition to 31 spots on Hockey East All-Star teams since 2008.   At the international level, Crowleys BC teams have featured three United States Olympians, eight members of the United States IIHF World Championship squads, nine selections to U.S. Four Nations Cup rosters, 16 nods on U.S. Under-22 Select Teams and 19 players on IIHF Under-18 World Championship squads (18 Americans, one Canadian). Additionally, both Crowley, her associate head coach Courtney Kennedy, herself a two-time Olympian and volunteer assistant goalkeepers coach Alison Quandt have coached the U.S. U18 squad at the IIHF World Championships.      In the last two years, 14 Eagles past and present have represented the United States or Canada in international competition, including six members of the gold-medal winning 2016 IIHF World Championship team, five members of the 2016 U.S. Under-22 Team and one member of 2016 Canadas National Development Team last year.   The Eagles have improved upon the previous campaign in each of the last six seasons becoming one of the most dominant teams in the nation. After establishing a new program record for wins (22) in 2008-09, her 2010-11 program set a new mark at 24, which was eclipsed in 2012-13 with 27 wins. That mark was once again re-established in 2014-15 when the Eagles posted 34 wins and then once-again shattered last year when the Eagles went 40-1-0 on the year, the second-best final record in NCAA history.     At the conference level, the 2011-12 squad established a new program record for Hockey East wins with 15 victories, besting the 2008-09 teams total of 14. That mark has been extended each of the last four seasons: 17 wins in 2012-13, 18 wins in 2013-14 and 20 as part of an undefeated 20-0-1 season in 2014-15 before BC posted a perfect conference record of 24-0-0 in 2015-16 season when the league schedule was expanded. The Eagles enter the 2016-17 campaign with a 49-game undefeated streak (48-0-1) in conference play that dates back to the 2013-14 season.     Last season, Crowleys Eagles re-wrote many NCAA records en route to a near perfect season as the Eagles broke NCAA records for assists (379) and points (592) in a season. BCs 40 wins were the second-highest single-season total in NCAA history, and the teams 213 goals were the fourth most in a year. Defensively, BC posted 14 shutouts a school record and ranked nationally third in team defense, allowing 1.24 goals per game. BC led the nation in scoring average (5.20 goals per game) and scoring margin (3.92 goal differential). Boston College claimed the Hockey East regular-season and tournament championships, and also the Beanpot, and was ranked No. 1 with a 40-game winning streak for the second half of the campaign.   A program-record three Eagles earned All-America honors, and the same three players senior Alex Carpenter, sophomore Megan Keller and senior Haley Skarupa were Patty Kazmaier Award finalists. Carpenter was the runner-up for the award after leading the nation in scoring with a program-record 88 points on 43 goals and 45 assists, also single-season BC records. Skarupa ranked third nationally in scoring with 79 points (35 goals, 44 assists), while Keller was the nations top-scoring defenseman with 52 points (12 goals, 40 assists). At the conclusion of the season, Crowley was honored as the ACHA Womens Ice Hockey Division I Coach of the Year by her peers for the second straight year.   Crowley initially arrived at The Heights as an assistant coach in August 2004, and after serving as the Eagles lieutenant for four seasons, was promoted to head coach in May 2007. As an assistant, she helped guide a consistently sub-.500 team to top echelon of programs nationally. In 2006-07, the Eagles played in their first NCAA Tournament, advancing to the Frozen Four for the first time in team history before losing to Minnesota-Duluth in double overtime.   In Crowleys first season at the helm, the Eagles posted a 14-13-7 record, one point out of the Hockey East tournament. The next year in 2008-09, BC went 22-9-5, won the Beanpot, advanced to the Hockey East championship game and earned the schools second NCAA Tournament berth. The nation took notice of the Eagles rise, and junior goaltender Molly Schaus and junior forward Kelli Stack earned the Eagles first-ever All-America honors. Additionally, Schaus was Boston Colleges first-ever Patty Kazmaier Award finalist, earning a spot among the nations top 10 players. Stack earned her second conference player of the year award.   Crowleys association with the United States Olympic Team grew in 2010 when a pair of her players Schaus and Stack were named to the squad that competed in Vancouver Olympic Games, becoming the Eagles first-ever Olympians in womens hockey. While the pair of All-Americans was away for the year, BC went 8-17-10 on the ice.   The 2010-11 season saw Crowley guide the Eagles to a 24-7-6 mark tying BCs win record en route to their first womens Hockey East title in school history. The return Schaus and Stack for their senior seasons strengthened an already talented lineup and helped propel BC to its second Frozen Four in four seasons. The fourth-seeded Eagles faced defending national champion Wisconsin in the national semifinal where BC erased a two-goal deficit in the third period before the Badgers last-second goal ended the monumental season. Boston College celebrated Stack as a Top 3 Finalist and Schaus as a Top 10 Finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award. Stack also became the first-ever player male or female to win three Hockey East Player of the Year awards.   Behind a 24-10-3 mark in 2011-12, the Eagles returned to the Frozen Four for the second straight season and for the third time overall. Three BC players were named to the Hockey East All-Rookie team: Alex Carpenter, Emily Field and Emily Pfalzer, while sophomore Taylor Wasylk joined Stack and Schaus on the National Team at the IIHF World Championships.   Crowleys Eagles set a new school wins mark in 2012-13, going 27-7-3 overall, including a 17-2-2 mark in league play. A third consecutive trip to the Frozen Four capped the season where the Eagles fell to top-ranked Minnesota in overtime. Carpenter had a dazzling year, setting school records for points (70), assists (38), plus/minus (+46) and consecutive games with a point (24) on her way to All-America accolades and New England and Hockey East Player of the Year honors.   The 2014 Olympics in Sochi saw Carpenter off with Team USA where she was the squads second-youngest player and top goal-scorer (4) on her way to a silver medal alongside Schaus and Stack but the Eagles didnt lose a beat back in Chestnut Hill. BC went a familiar 27-7-3, but improved to 18-2-1 in Hockey East play. The team won the Beanpot and the Hockey East regular-season title and advanced to the Hockey East Tournament championship game. However, the Eagles were prevented from advancing to their fourth consecutive Frozen Four when eventual national champion Clarkson defeated them in the NCAA quarterfinals.    The Eagles were a powerhouse in 2014-15, earning the programs first-ever number on ranking in early November as they started the season unbeaten in their first 28 games, going 27-0-1 including a program-best 25-game winning streak. The nations best offense was paced by Patty Kazmaier Award winner Carpenter who once again set a BC single-season scoring record with a nation-leading 81 points and junior Haley Skarupa, whose 71 points marked the nations third-highest total. The Eagles averaged 5.00 goals per game and allowed only 1.21 goals per contest fourth-best mark nationally as freshman goaltender Katie Burt led the nation in goals against average (1.11). After winning the Hockey East regular-season title for the second straight year and posting the conferences first undefeated season since 2007-08 the Eagles advanced to the programs sixth Frozen Four and third in the last four years. However, the Eagles drew cross-town rival Harvard in the national semifinal one of only two teams to defeat the Eagles all season and saw their best-ever season come to an end. BC had the nations most potent offense, one of its stingiest defenses and out-scored its opponents by a nations best 3.79 goals per game.   At the end of the 2014-15 season, Crowley was honored with her first national coach of the year honor as the Eagles claimed the nations number one ranking for much of the season and Carpenter earned the programs first-ever Patty Kazmaier Award as the nations top womens ice hockey player.   Crowley was a member of the Womens National Team that won its first-ever gold medal at the 2005 IIHF World Championship. As a standing member of the U.S. National Team from 1997 to 2006, she also competed in the Four Nations Cup, World Championship Tournaments and the first three Winter Olympics when womens ice hockey was an official event. Crowley won a gold medal in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan; a silver medal in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City and a bronze at the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy. She took home five consecutive silver medals in the World Championships (1997, 1999-2001, 2004) and a gold medal in 2005 with Team USA.   A prolific scorer, Crowleys 14 career Olympic goals including a hat trick in the 2006 bronze-medal game are tied for the Team USA lead, and her 23 career Olympic points are third-most among American women.   Crowley remains a Team USA legend. She retired after the 2006 Winter Olympics after scoring 265 career points and still ranks third among all players with 210 international appearances.     Crowley has worked with many national teams. The Eagles skipper was named head coach of the 2010 Under-18 National Team that captured a silver medal at the IIHF World Championship.  A year prior to that, she served as an assistant coach for the Under-18 National Team which won gold at the IIHF World Championship in Germany and the U-18 Select Team.  In 2006, she worked with the Under-22 Select Team. She has also worked as a lecturer, coach and instructor at numerous hockey camps throughout New England.   While a student at Brown, Crowley earned ECACs Ice Hockey Player of the Year in 1997 and Ivy League Player of the Year three times. She is the Bears all-time leading scorer with 206 points, racking up 123 goals and 83 assists in 100 career games. Crowley served as team captain as a junior and senior.   Crowley also lettered in softball while at Brown and served as a three-time team captain. She garnered Ivy League Player of the Year in 1996 and the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year in 1997. She is a Hall of Fame inductee for both hockey and softball at Brown.   The Salem, N.H., native graduated from Brown in 1997 with a B.A. in Organizational Behavior and Management. Crowleys alma mater awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2011.   She married Ted Crowley, a former BC mens hockey player, in the summer of 2010. 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Kennedy has helped BC develop into the Easts top team and one of the nations powers, as well as one of the top-choice collegiate hockey destinations for the countrys top players.   In addition to her on-ice coaching duties with an emphasis on the defensive corps and special teams Kennedy also heads the Eagles recruiting efforts and oversees hockey operations for the team. She was promoted to associate head coach before the 2012-13 season.   In 2015, Kennedy was honored by her peers with the AHCA Womens Ice Hockey Assistant Coach Award, which recognizes an assistant coachs body of work in womens hockey.   Since arriving at BC, Kennedy has helped guide the Eagles to the 2016 NCAA Championship game, five NCAA Frozen Fours (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016), three Hockey East regular-season titles (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16), two Hockey East tournament titles (2011, 2016) and four Beanpot titles (2009, 2011, 2014, 2016).   Boston College has made a steady progression into one of the nations elite programs, improving on its win totals from a then-program best 22 wins in 2008-09 to 40 wins in 2015-16. In Hockey East conference play, the Eagles improved from 14 league wins to a perfect 24-0-0 mark last season while putting together Hockey Easts first perfect season men or women in conference history.     Many members of the Eagles elite defensive corps have gained national and international attention, as well. Former goaltender Molly Schaus 11 was a mainstay on the U.S. National Team before her 2015 retirement, and represented the U.S. at two Olympic Games (2010, 2014). Defensemen Emily Pfalzer 15 and Megan Keller 18 were members of the gold-medal winning squad at both the 2015 and 2016 IIHF World Championships.   Defensemen Blake Bolden 13, Pfalzer and Keller have all earned All-America selections, with Pfalzer (2015) and Keller (2016) earning place on the Top 10 Finalist list for the Patty Kazmaier Award, which is awarded annually to the most outstanding college player.   Pfalzer also became the first-ever BC defender to score at least 100 points, graduating with 102 points from 23 goals and 79 assists.   Keller upped the Eagles defensive standard in 2015-16, earning All-America honors with 52 points to lead all defensemen in scoring nationally. It was the 10th highest point total in the nation last year overall, and the most by a defenseman in a single season in program history.   Between Bolden (2013), Pfalzer (2014, 2015) and Keller (2016), the trio has claimed the last four Hockey East Best Defenseman Awards.   Since 2007-08, Boston College has claimed 12 defenseman spots and five goaltender spots on the Hockey East All-Star team, including both first-team defensemen in 2015-16: Keller and Lexi Bender 16.     While Kennedys defenders earned praise and recognition for their personal accomplishments, the parts come together to form a tremendous unit. The Eagles are consistently among the nations top 10 defensive corps, four times ranking in the top five: 2008-09 allowing 1.75 goals per game; 2010-11 allowing 1.73 goals per game; 2014-15 when they allowed 1.21 goals per game to rank fourth nationally and 2015-16 when they allowed 1.24 goals per game to rank third.   The last two seasons have seen the Eagles establish defensive dominance in the East. In 2014-15, freshman goaltender Katie Burt led the nation in goals against average with a 1.11 mark the ninth-best single-single mark ever in NCAA Division I history   as well as winning percentage (.886, going 30-3-2) and wins (30), while posting 10 shutouts to tie the school record originally set by Schaus in 2008-09. The Eagles boasted the fourth-best defense in the country, allowing just 1.21 goals per game. One year later in 2015-16, BC posted 14 shutouts and a 1.24 goals against average, the third-best mark nationally. Burts 13 shutouts ranked third nationally, while her 1.23 GAA was third-best nationally and her 35 wins led the nation.   Kennedy came to BC after three years as the head coach of womens 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, 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.    After stepping off the ice for Team USA, Kennedy remains active with USA Hockey. She was an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-18 team at the 2013 and 2014 IIHF U18 World Championships, helping lead the squad to silver medals at both tournaments. She is set to return to the U.S. Under-18 bench again this season as an assistant coach.   Kennedy, a Woburn, Mass., native, was a two-time All-America 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 Award. As a junior in 2000, she helped lead Minnesota to its first national title.    As a Gopher, Kennedy scored 112 points on 35 goals and 77 assists in 106 games. She is tied for third on the Gophers' defensemen career list for goals, and fifth in defenseman career points and assists.  In 2008, Kennedy was inducted into the Minnesota "M" Club Hall of Fame. She attended at Colby College in Maine for a year before transferring to Minnesota in 1999.   Kennedys coaching experience also includes director of on-ice practices for the East Coast Wizard Girls Youth Hockey Program, USA Hockey Select Festival coach and director of the Kennedy School of Hockey.   Kennedy graduated from Minnesota in 2001 with a bachelors degree in youth studies and currently lives in her hometown of Woburn.   Addazio, Steve Alderson, Jeff Allen, Kristen Apps, Gillian Arao, Kenneth Arsenault, Ben Ayer, David Ayers, Mike Babcock, Emily Barkin, Claire Barnard, Beth Bartlett, Eddie Bates, Brad Battista, Lauren Baum, Jason Bennett, Donna Bentley, Nigel Blanchette, Jason Blossom, Marcus Borselli, Alisa Boston, Peter Bouzan, Patrice Boyer Pronovost, Francie Bozek, Megan Brann, Chris Brown, Carson Brown, Greg Brown, Megan Brown, Ricky Brown, Ty-Meer Bruins, Abby Burks-Wiley, Jesyka Bushee, Steve Cahill, Carolyn Campanile, Anthony Campbell, Chris Caparro, JM Cardarelli, Carole Carlson, Mary Carter, Laurel Castaldi, Joseph Cegledy, Rebecca Charnowski, Emily Christian, Jim Clark, Aaron Colivas, Michael Collins, Olivia Conway, Matt Cook, Alexander Cooper, Paula Corsi, Sandy Crest, Eric Crispell, Eli Crowley, Katie Cunningham, Chip Cunningham, Mercedes Da Gama, Edgard Dabbs, Lauren De Vries, Hilary DeFlavio, Ben DeLeon, Tyler DeMar, Travis DeRosa, Russ DiLoreto, Jamie Doris-Pierce, Brendan Doton, Kelly Drury, Caroline Durfee, Sean Edwards, Phil Fadner, Syd Fahey, Matthew Ferrine, Leo Fink, Becca Fioravanti, Alan Fiske, Steve Flaherty, Paul Flores, Dan Foley, Alison Foley, Katie Foley, Noreen Frye, Justin Galinat, Kevin Gallagher, Keagan Gallotto, Nicholas Gallup, Barry Gambino, Mike Garrick, Thomas Gartner, Will Gaynor, Danielle Gil, Johnny Gilman, Terence Goulard, JP Graydon, Kathryn Griffin, Brooke Groden, Tom Gunnell, Rich Harris, Anna Hart, Patrick Hawkins, Yvonne Hayes, Matt Heath, Stan Hegarty, Jill Hegarty, John Heyde, Julie Hill, Matt Hutchinson, Venessa Johnson, Erik Johnson, Kaliya Jones, Ethan Kane, John Kayser, Drew Kelly, Ed Kennedy, Courtney Kenny, Kelly Kent, Jennifer Kentera, Jen Kerr, Matt Knoerr, Maria Kovach, Jonathan Kurtz, Alex LaVigne, Mike Lawton, Janelle Lenz, Bert Leonard, Frank Liacopoulos, Andrew Librizzi, Evan Livingston, Zoe Loeffler, Scot Lumb, Daniel Lutz, Andrew Lynch, Matt Lynch, Sarah MacDonald, Mark Madden, Meredith Majewski, Mark Mance, Caitlin Mangiero, James Manning, Patrick Mask, Jayme McDermott, Dan McDevitt, Mark McGovern, Brendan McLafferty, Scott McLane, Megan Metzger, Lee Miller, Brandon Miller, Dard Mooradian, Jody Morgan, Amy Morin, Shane Morrison, Clare Mueller, Adam Murphy, Kevin Murphy, Stefanie Murrey, Matt Negalha, Jeff Nishikubo, Amanda Novak, Steve O'Connor, Joseph O'Neill, Jim Obrest, Ashley Ollove, Zanna Pacella-Cerasani, Anna Pandolfo, John Pariseau, Carly Pasqualoni, Paul Paterson, Aaron Peffer, Ryan Peters, Tom Piraino, Frank Position, Open Position, Open Position, Open Position, Open Position, Open Position, Open Position, Open Post, Tim Prickett, Jade Reid, Jim Reid, Norm Remick, Stephen Reyes, Yadira Ricci, Michael Romeo, Jeannette Ruys, Jennifer Seguin, Jaime Sherwood, John Shields, Samuel Spiegel, Patrick Spinelli, Scott St. Cyr, Tatum Stanley, Jordan Starrett, Samuel Stephens, Mike Sullivan, Amy Sullivan, Patrick Sullivan, Ryan Summers, Lizz Sun, Bryan Taggart, Bob Taylor, Caitriona Terry, Reggie Thomas, Randy Thompson, Matt Thorpe, James Tierney, Meghan Tomaszek, Kevin Toof, Bill Torres, Leonardo Trautwein, Phil Trezza, Alex Tunnera, Stephanie Turbush, Kenneth Valestin, Ed Vellante, Ashley Vigneau, Michael Viscariello, Dan Von Harten, Kristina Walker, Acacia Walsh, Brian Walsh, Tom Ward, Meredith Washington, Al Weatherby, Amy West, Errick Wetherbee, Judy White, Brian Wilkins, Scott Wilkinson, Greg Winn, Michael Wong, Melissa Wuczynski, Bill York, Jerry Young, Andrea  Full Staff  expand