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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 4, 2003


Rosters And Competition Schedule Announced For 2003 USA Hockey Women's 
National Festival

U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team To Face Canada, Aug. 20-23 in Montreal, 
Que.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- USA Hockey today announced the coaching staff and 
64 players selected to the 2003 USA Hockey Women's National Festival, to be 
held August 12-18 in Lake Placid, N.Y. Participants in the Festival are divided 
into three teams (Teams Blue, Red and White) that will take part in daily 
practices and compete in a round-robin tournament at the Olympic Center.

USA Hockey today also named the roster for the 2003 U.S. Women's Under-22 
Select Team, which will play a three-game exhibition series against Canada, 
August 20-23 in Pierrefonds Que., a suburb of Montreal, at the Sportsplexe Four 
Glaces. The Under-22 players also comprise Team Blue, which will be competing at 
the 2003 USA Hockey Women's National Festival.
     
Ben Smith (Gloucester, Mass.), two-time head coach of the U.S. Olympic 
Women's Ice Hockey Team, will fill that same role with the 2003 U.S. Under-22 
Women's Select Team/Team Blue. Smith led the United States to the inaugural women's 
ice hockey gold medal in the 1998 Olympic Winter Games at Nagano, Japan, and a 
silver medal in 2002 in Salt Lake City.

The announcement was made by USA Hockey President Ron DeGregorio (Salem, 
N.H.), USA Hockey Executive Director Doug Palazzari (Colorado Springs, Colo.), USA 
Hockey Vice President & International Council Chairperson Tony Rossi 
(Chicago, Ill.), and USA Hockey Senior Director, International Administration Art 
Berglund (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

The Festival coaching staff will include four women's college head coaches: 
Mike Gilligan (Univ. of Vermont) and Joy Woog (Northeastern Univ.) will guide 
Team Red, and Bill Beaney (Middlebury College) and Heather Linstad (Univ. of 
Connecticut) will be behind the bench for Team White. Joining Smith as assistant 
coaches of the Under-22 Team/Team Blue will be two more veteran women's 
college coaches: Jackie Barto (Ohio State Univ.) and Jeff Kampersal (Princeton 
Univ.). Rounding out the Under-22 coaching staff will be Tim Gerrish (Saranac 
Lake, N.Y.), who has served as assistant for the 1995 U.S. Women's Select Team, 
the 2001 U.S. Women's National Team and the 2002 U.S. Women's Select Team. 
Gerrish will also serve as the Festival's goaltending coach.

Included on the 64-player roster for the 2003 USA Hockey Women's National 
Festival are 13 Olympians, including seven members of both the 1998 gold-medal 
winning and 2002 silver-medal winning teams, five additional members of the 2002 
team and one member of the 1998 team. Three other players selected to the 
Festival were part of the 2001-02 U.S. Women's National Team which competed in 
the Visa Skate To Salt Lake Tour. Remaining players have most recently competed 
in the National Women's Hockey League and at the college, high school and 
grassroots levels.

2003 USA Hockey Women's National Festival Competition Schedule (Lake Placid, 
N.Y.)

Date, Time (EDT), Game
Aug. 13, 7:00 p.m., Red vs. Blue/U-22
Aug. 14, 7:00 p.m., White vs. Blue/U-22
Aug. 15, 7:00 p.m., Red vs. White
Aug. 16, 12:00 p.m., Red vs. Blue/U-22
Aug. 17, 12:00 p.m., White vs. Blue/U-22
Aug. 18, 3:00 p.m., Red vs. White

2003 U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team Competition Schedule (Pierrefonds, 
Que.)

Date, Time (EDT), Game
Aug. 20, 7:00 p.m., USA vs. Canada
Aug. 21, 7:00 p.m., USA vs. Canada
Aug. 23, 1:00 p.m., USA vs. Canada


I hope to have the rosters tomorrow sometime to email to everyone.

Lynn Olson
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