Harvard University Men's Ice Hockey

Donato accumulated 56 victories in his first three years. He is the third Harvard coach to total 50 wins in his first three seasons, joining Bill Cleary 56 (51 wins), who coached Donato at Harvard, and Ronn Tomassoni (50). Donato, who won an NCAA championship as a Crimson player, played in the Olympics and enjoyed a 13-year NHL career, was introduced as the Robert D. Ziff Head Coach of Harvard Men's Ice Hockey July 2, 2004. For the second year in a row, the Crimson played in the ECAC Hockey Tournament championship game and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Harvard's 2015-16 team posted a 19-11-4 record, earned tournament titles at the Shillelagh (Notre Dame) and Mariucci (Minnesota) during the regular season. Donato also led a number of his players to individual accolades. Jimmy Vesey collected the program's fourth Hobey Baker Award as the top player in college hockey, to go with first team All-America honors and the Walter Brown Award. Kyle Criscuolo, the ECAC Student-Athlete of the Year once again, garnered All-ECAC and Ivy League honors, as did linemate Alexander Kerfoot. Desmond Bergin and Merrick Madsen each picked up All-Ivy nods. The 2014-15 season was a return to prominence for the Crimson, as Donato led Harvard to the NCAA Tournament for the 22nd time in program history after capturing the school's ninth ECAC Tournament title. Donato coached six All-Ivy League selections and three ECAC Hockey honorees, including the conference Player of the Year and Hobey Hat Trick finalist, Jimmy Vesey. Junior co-captain Kyle Criscuolo also had a breakout year under Donato's tutelage, finishing second on the team in points, while garnering the program's first ECAC Student-Athlete of the Year award. Donato, a 1991 graduate, is just Harvard's sixth head coach since 1950. He is the eighth Harvard alum to serve as the program's head coach. The appointment is Donato's first coaching position. He did not look like a rookie coach in his debut season behind the bench in 2004-05, leading the Crimson to a 21-10-3 record, runner-up finishes in the ECACHL regular season and tournament and an NCAA tournament appearance. Donato's 2005-06 Harvard squad followed with another 21-win season, captured the ECACHL and Ivy League championships and made another NCAA appearance. Donato is the only head coach to take Harvard to the NCAA tournament in each of his first two years. Donato's teams have shown the tendency to come through in the clutch that was a trademark of his playing career. They have gone 28-6-5 in February home games. The 2007-08 Crimson closed the year on a 10-3-1 run, reaching the finals of the Beanpot and league playoffs. Harvard capped the 2008-09 regular season with a 4-0-2 spurt and then won seven of its final 10 games in 2010-11, winning a road playoff series for the second straight year. Defenseman Noah Welch 05, goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris 05, defenseman Danny Biega '13, forward Alex Killorn '12 and forward Jimmy Vesey '16 have all earned All-America status under Donato. Welch, Biega and Killorn went on to skate in the NHL, as did forwards Tom Cavanagh 05 and Louis Leblanc and defensemen Dylan Reese 07 and Alex Biega '10. As an undergraduate, Donato etched his name alongside Harvard's all-time greats. He finished his career 11th on the Crimson's career scoring chart (50 goals, 94 assists, 144 points) and remains 12th in that category. He earned All-ECAC and All-Ivy League accolades while serving as the 95th captain of Harvard hockey in his 1990-91 senior season. Donato was named Most Outstanding Player of the 1989 NCAA Frozen Four, where Harvard downed Minnesota, 4-3, in overtime in the NCAA championship game. That contest, held in the Gophers' backyard (St. Paul, Minn.), saw Donato net a pair of goals, one that tied the game at 1-1 midway through the second period and another that gave the Crimson a 3-2 lead with seven minutes to go. Donato scored three goals and added a pair of assists in the tournament. He earned the Donald Angier Hockey Trophy as the team's most improved player in 1989 and accepted the Ralph "Cooney" Weiland Award for spirit and devotion to Harvard hockey in 1991. A native of nearby Dedham, Mass., Donato was a member of seven United States national teams, including the 1992 Olympic team. He tied for the team lead in scoring with four goals and three assists in eight games in the Olympics and posted 11 goals and 22 assists in the pre-Games schedule. He also played in the World Championships in 1997 (4-2-6 in 8 GP), 1999 (2-6-8 in 8 GP) and 2002 (1-3-4 in 7 GP) and in the 1988 World Junior Championship (3-2-5 in 7 GP). Donato was selected by the Boston Bruins in the fifth round of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft (98th overall), and he signed with his hometown club in March 1992 following the Olympic Games. His 13-year pro career included stops in New York (with the Rangers and Islanders), Los Angeles, Ottawa, Anaheim and St. Louis. He returned to the Bruins as a free agent in July 2003. His NHL career spanned 796 games, in which he scored 150 goals with 197 assists for 347 points. Donato had eight goals, 18 assists and 26 points in 58 career Stanley Cup playoff games. He scored 25 goals in 1996-97, becoming the first U.S.-born player to lead the Bruins in goals in a season. Donato graduated from Catholic Memorial School as its all-time leading scorer. The son of Michael and Mary Donato, Ted and his three brothers were all active in athletics. Brother Michael played baseball at Princeton; Chris played hockey, baseball and football at Williams; and Dan played hockey and baseball at Boston University. Their sister, Paula, is a plastics engineer. Donato is a resident of Scituate, Mass., with his wife, Jeannine, and their four children: Ryan, Jack, Nolan and Madelyn. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS

Pearl joined the Crimson after a 19-year career as head coach at Holy Cross. Pearl's leadership helped the Crimson reach the ECAC Hockey Tournament championship game and the NCAA Tournament for the second year in row. In posting a 19-11-4 overall record, the Crimson won the Shillelagh (Notre Dame) and Mariucci (Minnesota) regular season tournaments. Preaching discipline, the Crimson were the 10th-least penalized team in the country in 2015-16. Under Pearl's guidance, Harvard's power play improved to fifth-best in the nation, converting on 27.4 percent of its opportunities. As a whole, the Crimson ranked 10th in the nation in scoring margin (1.03), led by its offense that ranked ninth with 3.41 goals per game, while the defense was 17th at 2.38 goals against. The individual awards poured in for Harvard in Pearl's second season behind the bench, led by senior Jimmy Vesey winning the 2016 Hobey Baker Award as college hockey's best player. Focusing on defense and special teams in his first season at Harvard, Pearl saw his special teams units rank among the top-20 in the nation throughout the year. The power play converted 26 times, good for the 11th-highest conversion rate in the country at 20.5 percent. In ECAC, the man-advantage yielded 16 goals, tied for the most in conference. Harvard's defense was among the most stringent in the nation, finishing the year ranked in the top-30 in goals allowed. The renewed confidence on special teams and the stalwart efforts on defense helped the Crimson win the ECAC Tournament title and earn a berth into the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006. Pearl had a decorated tenure with the Crusaders, becoming the schools all-time winningest coach in 2006 with his 168th career victory. In 19 seasons in Worcester, Pearl compiled a 297-293-69 overall record, and was behind the bench for nine of the 11 most successful seasons in program history. Pearl has two NCAA tournament appearances to his credit (2004 and 2006) and has led five, 20-win campaigns at the helm of the Holy Cross program. His accolades came shortly after he began with the Crusaders, as he was dubbed ECAC East Coach of the Year and New England Hockey Writers Association Coach of the Year in 1998. He collected MAAC Coach of the Year honors in 2002 and was twice named Atlantic Hockey Coach of the Year (2004 and 2011). The Wakefield, Mass., native has Ivy League coaching experience, as he served as an assistant coach at Brown during the 1996-97 season. Prior to his time in Providence, he had a two-year stint at Holy Cross, preceded by a two-year tenure as an assistant coach at Connecticut.  As a player, Pearl skated in 125 games for the Crusaders, compiling 77 points on 14 career goals and 63 assists. Pearl graduated from Holy Cross in 1989 and earned his MBA from Connecticut in 1994. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS

Stone, the Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Womens Ice Hockey, is the winningest coach in the history of Division I womens hockey, as she has amassed 446 victories over the course of her storied career. One of the most successful coaches in the history of the womens collegiate game, Stone has spent all 21 of her seasons as a head coach with the Crimson. The 2015-16 campaign saw the Crimson post a 17-12-3 overall record, including a 12-7-3 mark in ECAC hockey play. Playing one of the nation's toughest schedules, Harvard tallied six wins over ranked opponents. Senior goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer became the program's all-time leader in career saves, shattering the previous mark with 2,538 stops. Maschmeyer paired with defenseman Michelle Picard as the anchors of one of nation's top defensive teams, and the duo joined senior Miye D'Oench, junior Sydney Daniels and sophomore Karly Heffernan in receiving all-conference honors. Picard and Maschmeyer went on to compete internationally in starting roles at the IIHF World Championship in Kamloops, British Columbia. In 2014-15, Stone guided Harvard to perhaps its best season in five years, reaching the NCAA National Championship game versus the University of Minnesota. The Crimson finished as National Runners-Up to the Gophers, but the season was remarkable as Harvard ended 2014-15 with a Beanpot title, an Ivy League title and as ECAC Regular Season and Tournament champions, going 27-6-3 (16-4-2 ECAC, 8-2 Ivy). Under her tutelage, Sarah Edney became the 11th Crimson to earn All-America honors, and also was named the ECAC's Best Defenseman. Along with Edney, four skaters earned All-ECAC honors and five earned All-Ivy accolades. The 2013-14 season marked the first time since 1993-94 that Stone had not been on the bench with Harvard, as she served as the head coach of the United States Olympic Women's Ice Hockey team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Stone was named the head coach of the 2014 United States Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team on June 8, 2012. As the first-ever female head coach of a USA Hockey team in the Olympics, Stone led the Americans to the silver medal in Sochi, taking part in the gold medal game versus rival Canada. Prior to her time in Sochi, she led the USA to gold at the 2013 IIHF Women's World Championships, where the United States upended Canada, 3-2. Before that, Stone led the Red, White and Blue to silver at the 2012 IIHF Women's World Championship in Burlington, Vt., and gold at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship in Zurich, Switzerland. Aside from the success on the World Championships stage, Stone has guided the Americans in five Four Nations Cups in total, including leading the U.S. to gold in 2008, 2011 and 2012. While in Cambridge, Stone has led the Crimson to an incredible 429-177-38 (.697) record in her tenure following the 2014-15 campaign, including the 1999 AWCHA national championship, four appearances in the NCAA championship game (2003, 2004, 2005, 2015), 11 NCAA tournament appearances in the events 15-year history, seven ECAC regular-season titles, six ECAC tournament championships, eight Ivy League titles and 11 Beanpots. Stone is just the fourth coach in womens college hockey history to win 300 games and became the first to reach the 400-win plateau during the 2012-13 campaign.  Stone, who appeared 33rd on New England Hockey Journals Top 50 Most Influential People in New England Hockey, took the coaching reins from John Dooley prior to the 1994-95 season and posted a 12-11-2 mark in her first year at the helm. The squad finished just under .500 over the next three seasons, but Stone orchestrated an extraordinary turnaround within the program, improving from 14-16-0 in 1997-98 to a program-record 33-1-0 and claiming a national championship in 1998-99. That year, the team closed the season with 30 consecutive victories, culminating in a thrilling 6-5 overtime win over New Hampshire in the AWCHA National Championship. In addition to the team success, some of the best individual talent in the sport of womens hockey has laced its skates in Cambridge. In 20 years behind the bench, Stone has continued to develop talent and attract attention on the national and international stages. She has coached 11 Olympians including four who competed in the 2014 Sochi Games and six of the 17 winners of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, presented annually to the nations best collegiate womens hockey player. Crimson skaters have earned All-America honors a total of 23 times since 1999, including Jennifer Botterill 02-03 and Angela Ruggiero 02-04, the first players to be four-time first-team All-Americans. In addition, Harvard has had nine ECAC Players of the Year, 10 Ivy League Players of the Year, four ECAC Rookies of the Year and six Ivy League Rookies of the Year. After leading the Crimson to the 1999 national championship, Stone received ECAC/KOHO and New England Hockey Writers Coach of the Year honors. In addition, she was named the American Hockey Coaches Association Womens Coach of the Year and the New England College Athletic Conference Womens Division I Coach of the Year. Stone repeated as the New England Hockey Writers Coach of the Year for the 2000-01 season. She went on to lead Harvard to three-straight NCAA title game appearances (2003-05), three-straight ECAC regular season titles (2003-05) and ECAC tournament titles (2004-06) and the only back-to-back 30-win seasons in program history in 2003-04 and 2004-05. Harvard also spent 14 consecutive weeks atop the national polls during the 2002-03 season. Stone helped the Crimson become the second team in ECAC womens hockey history to finish the conference season with a perfect record, leading the 2007-08 squad to a 22-0-0 mark in league play. She was named ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year at the end of the season, the third time she earned the award (1999, 2005, 2008). Two years later, Stone broke the NCAA Division I wins record, as she earned the 338th victory in her legendary coaching career with a 5-1 win over Princeton in Game 1 of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals. Stone has been an integral voice in the sport of womens hockey. She served as a member of the NCAA Championship committee, the NCAA rules committee, the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award selection committee and president of the American Womens Hockey Coaches Association. Stone has been very active within the U.S. National Development Camps and started her affiliation with the U.S. National Team in 1996. Stone led the U.S. to the gold medal at the first-ever IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in January 2008 and also coached the U.S. Women's Under-18 Team at the 2007 Under-18 Series and the U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team at the 2006 Under-22 Series. Stone graduated from New Hampshire in 1989 with a degree in physical education. She was a captain and four-year letterwinner in both hockey and lacrosse for the Wildcats. Stone helped the hockey team win ECAC championships in 1986 and 1987 and the lacrosse team capture an NCAA title in 1985. She earned All-ECAC honors in hockey and was a two-time All-America selection in lacrosse. Stone was recently honored with the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award and inducted into the UNH Athletics Hall of Fame as a result of her achievements both in and outside of athletics. Before coming to Harvard, Stone served as assistant athletic director and coach at Tabor Academy and also had coaching stints at Northfield Mount Hermon and Phillips Exeter Academy. Her family is deeply rooted in athletics as her father and siblings have all been involved with coaching and education. A native of Watertown, Conn., Stone now resides in Arlington, Mass. Team Honors Under Katey Stone             Beanpot Titles (11): 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2015  Ivy League Championships (8): 1999, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 ECAC Regular Season Titles (7): 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2015       ECAC Tournament Championships (6): 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2015       AWCHA National Championships (1): 1999                   All-American Tournament Titles (1): 1997                   NCAA Tournament Appearances (11): 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015 NCAA Frozen Four Appearances (6): 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2015       NCAA Championship Appearances (4): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2015   Team Honors Under Katey Stone

James Marcou has joined the men's hockey coaching staff in August of 2019 and enters his fifth year with the Crimson. He is responsible for coaching the team's forward group and power play, as well as recruiting. Marcou helped guide Harvard to another standout season up front in 2022-23, as the Crimson finished 7th in the nation with an average of 3.68 goals per game, and had the No. 9 power play in the country at 24.3% on the season. Under his guidance, both Sean Farrell (First Team) and Matthew Coronato (Second Team) earned All-America honors. In 2021-22, Marcou had another successful year coaching the forwards, as the Crimson were No. 11 in the nation in scoring (3.31 goals per game), featuring the nation's No. 1 (Sean Farrell) and No. 2 (Matthew Coronato) rookie scorers (points per game).   In his first season with Harvard, Marcou oversaw a Crimson power play that led all NCAA Division I programs in 2019-20 at 31.2% (34-for-109), recording a power play goal in 24 of 31 games. Harvard was No. 5 in the nation in scoring (3.74 goals per game), led by Second-Team All-American Nick Abruzzese (14 goals, 30 assists), who was tops among NCAA first-years in scoring.  Marcou previously worked as an assistant coach at Brown, where he helped the Bears record their first winning season since 2012-13. The Huntington, N.Y. native guided Brown to ECAC Hockey championship weekend for the first time since 2013. Marcou, an All-American and the career assists leader at the University of Massachusetts (2007-10), began his collegiate coaching career in 2016 as a graduate assistant at UMass, where he aided the coaching staff in all aspects of the program over the course of two seasons. Marcou put together a standout collegiate career at UMass. He earned AHCA Second-Team honors following his sophomore season in 2008-09, when he racked up 47 points on 15 goals and 32 assists, and tied for the Hockey East scoring title that season. A two-time All-Hockey East performer and New England Hockey Writers All-Star, Marcou broke his own school record for single-season assists (40) as a junior in 2009-10. He finished with 130 career points (34g, 96a) in 111 games played. After his junior season, Marcou signed a free agent contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He played for two and a half seasons before medically retiring. Marcou returned to UMass, completing his degree as a 2015 graduate of the Isenberg School of Management. He later served on the varsity boys’ hockey staff for Milton Academy during the 2015-16 season, where he helped lead the program to a Co-ISL Championship.

Mirasolo worked primarily with the Crimson defense, which ended the season as the seventh-best in the country. Senior blueliner Michelle Picard anchored the group, helping lead the team to seven shutouts, while sophomore Chelsea Ziadie burst onto the scene as a top-line defenseman. Ziadie earned the Joe Bertagna Award, given annually to the program's most improved player.  Mirasolo came to Cambridge after spending four years as an assistant coach at Princeton, primarily working with the offense and the penalty-kill unit. During her tenure at Princeton, the Tigers continually improved each season and reached the ECAC Quarterfinals three times. In 2014-15, Princeton had its best season since 2010-11, finishing the year at 15-14-2. The Tigers went 13-8-1 in the ECAC and 7-2-1 in Ivy play, missing out on a shared Ancient Eight title with Harvard by one point. Prior to her time in Princeton, Mirasolo spent two years on the staff at UMass Boston following an impressive four-year playing career at Boston College. At BC, Mirasolo was a part of two Beanpot Championships, two NCAA tournament appearances and a Frozen Four showing in 2007. She was named the Eagles' captain for the 2007-08 campaign, and also was honored that season as BC's Unsung Hero. Mirasolo also took home the team's Community Service Award in 2005-06. Prior to joining the Beacons staff, Mirasolo served as an assistant ice hockey coach at Phillips Andover Academy during the 2009-10 season. Over the summer of 2010, Mirasolo acted as an Intern Coach at the U14 USA National Camp in Rochester, New York. She also served as the strength and conditioning coach for Emerson College's softball team during the 2008-09 campaign. A native of Wakefield, Mass., Mirasolo graduated with a degree in communications in 2008. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS

Rassey helped forwards Jimmy Vesey and Sean Malone earn All-Ivy League accolades, while Malone was tabbed Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Year. In continuing to develop the forwards, Vesey made national waves in Rassey's second year, leading the country in goals and finishing as the Ivy and ECAC Player of the Year, as well as a Hobey Hat Trick finalist. The culmination of Vesey's development occured in 2016 when he earned the Hobey Baker Award as college hockey's top player. Harvard's offense ranked ninth in the country in 2015-16 with a 2.41 goals per game average. The Crimson's high-powered offense led to it reaching the ECAC Hockey Tournament championship game for the second-straight season, while also earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Harvard posted a 19-11-14 record and won the Shillelagh (Notre Dame) and Mariucci (Minnesota) regular season tournaments. The 2014-15 season also saw Harvard lead the ECAC in scoring at 3.23 per game. Vesey led the conference in scoring and Kyle Criscuolo and Tyler Moy each finished in the top-10. Nationally, Harvard ranked 10th in scoring offense at 3.27 goals per game. Its offense prowess led to a 21-win season, the ECAC Tournament championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Rassey comes to Cambridge after a successful two-year stint as an assistant coach with the Youngstown Phantoms of the United States Hockey League (USHL). In his first year coaching with the club, he helped the Phantoms return to the USHL playoffs, securing a fourth-place finish thanks to a 32-win season. Last year, he saw the team notch 37 wins and finish third in its division, claiming another playoff berth.   Prior to working with the Youngstown program, Rassey worked with USA Hockey Massachusetts Player Development for the select festival as a scout and coach. Before that, he was a volunteer coach with his alma mater, Northeastern University, from 2009-2011, helping the team to a 30-32-10 record. At Northeastern, Rassey was in charge of special teams, in game scouting/adjustments, game plan design, video breakdown, and bench management. Rassey skated at Northeastern from 2005-2009, where his team improved from a three-win season his freshman year to a 25-win campaign as a senior setting a university record and earning the schools first NCAA tournament bid in more than 20 years.  He was a four-time letterman, a four-time Hockey East Academic Honor Roll recipient including being named a Hockey East Distinguished Scholar in 2009 and recipient of the 2008 Coaches Award for loyalty and friendship to the NU hockey program. He graduated in 2009 Magna Cum Laude with a degree in finance and management. Following his time at Northeastern, Rassey played for the Youngstown Phantoms, then of the North American Hockey League (NAHL), and was a two-time captain. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS

Keady joined the Harvard women's hockey staff in June 2015 as an assistant coach under Katey Stone. 

Flemming enters his third season in the position in 2015-16. Flemming brings years of scouting a coaching experience to the position with the Crimson squads. Flemming worked as the assistant mens hockey coach for two seasons at Division III Babson before joining the Crimson. While with the Beavers, Flemming helped the mens hockey team reach a 27-20-9 record. After a trying first season with the team, Flemmings second season saw the team rebound and post an 18-7-5 record, claiming the ECAC East Championship.  Prior to coaching at Babson, Flemming built up an impressive scouting background. He was the U.S. Coordinator of Scouting in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for a time before landing the job at Babson. Flemming also worked as a New England regional scout for the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles where he scouted talent for the QMJHL and the NHL. Along with coaching at Babson, Flemming was an assistant coach at Suffolk for the 2010-11 season. Between coaching at Babson and Suffolk, Flemming has helped send four division III players to professional hockey.   Flemming holds a Bachelors degree from Stonehill in business administration, graduating in 2003. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS