ABOUT CROWELL

Crowell will be making her second U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team coaching appearance following her debut with Team USA in 2015. She has also taken part in various USA Hockey development camps and festivals in recent years. Crowell has served as the head coach of the women’s ice hockey team at the University of Minnesota-Duluth for the past two seasons and was named the CCM/AHCA Division I Women’s Coach of the Year. Prior to joining the Bulldogs, she spent five years with Harvard University in various coaching capacities. Crowell joined the Crimson after a five-year stint as head coach at UMass Boston. She was named the 2009-10 Eastern College Athletic Conference East Women’s Ice Hockey Coach of the Year. Before her time at UMass Boston, Crowell spent two seasons as an assistant coach with Connecticut College and was an assistant coach with the hockey team and head coach of the junior varsity women’s lacrosse team at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts. As a player, Crowell was a member of the Colgate women’s ice hockey team.

ABOUT KENNEDY

Kennedy will be returning for her fourth stint as an assistant coach with U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team. She helped Team USA win gold at the 2017 IIHF Under-18 Women’s World Championship and silver twice (2013, 2014). Kennedy recently completed her 11th season at Boston College, most recently serving as associate head women's ice hockey coach. In 2015, Kennedy was honored by her peers with the AHCA Women’s Ice Hockey Assistant Coach Award. She has helped guide the Eagles to several titles, including the 2016 NCAA Championship game and six NCAA Frozen Fours (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017). Prior to her time with Boston College, she spent three years as the head women’s ice hockey coach at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kennedy is a two-time member of the U.S. Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team (2002- silver, 2006- bronze) and also captured the gold medal at the 2005 IIHF Women’s World Championship as a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team. Kennedy earned several accolades during her playing career and was a two-time All-American at Minnesota in 1999 and 2001. In 2008, she was inducted into the Minnesota "M" Club Hall of Fame.

NOTES: Reagan Carey (Colorado Springs, Colo.), USA Hockey's director of women's hockey, is the general manager of the 2017-18 U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team ... Approximately 30 players will be invited to the U.S Women's National Under-18 Evaluation Camp August 8-14, in Lake Placid, New York. The camp will culminate with the selection of a 22-player roster that will represent the U.S. in a three-game series against Canada from August 17-20 in Lake Placid, New York ... The IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship is scheduled to be played for the 11th time and will include teams from Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. The dates and location of the tournament will be announced in the near future. Team USA, the three-time reigning world champion, captured gold in each of the first two years of the tournament (2008, 2009) and again in 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2017 ... The team has taken home the silver medal in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014.