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Courtney Kennedy joins the Boston College coaching staff after three years as the head coach of women's ice hockey at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Mass.
Head Coach Katie King and Kennedy were 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 Championship in 2005.
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 3 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.
Aside from her head coaching duties at BB&N, Kennedy, as an athletic assistant, was responsible for recruiting, coaching lacrosse and field hockey and teaching athletics to grades five through 12.
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.
Kennedy graduated from Minnesota in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in youth studies and currently lives in Somerville, Mass.
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