WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 245

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Head Coach named for US National Team
	by Andria Hunter 

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Date: 	Tue, 4 Jun 1996 17:55:08 -0400
From: Andria Hunter 
To: email@hidden
Subject: Head Coach named for US National Team
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This information is from USA Today's College Hockey web page at
  http://web.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/shc/shcf.htm

SMITH NAMED OLYMPIC TEAM COACH: 

``On June 3, USA Hockey announced Ben Smith of Gloucester, Mass., as
coach of the United States Olympic women's ice hockey team. Women's
hockey debuts as a medal sport at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in
Nagano, Japan. Several of the team members are expected to be current
or past collegiate players. Smith, who for the past five seasons served
as coach of the Northeastern men's hockey team, has resigned that
position and agreed to a three-year appointment with USA Hockey. "The
efforts that USA Hockey has made truly signify a new beginning for the
women's program, and to be a part of the building process is a great
honor," said Smith. "Having previously coached in an Olympic setting, I
know what a feeling of exhilaration and adrenaline that representing
your country provides." Smith's varied international coaching
experience is lengthy, dating back to 1985. Last fall, he was coach of
the USA Hockey Women's National Camp at Lake Placid, N.Y., and guided
the 1995 U.S.  Women's Select Team to a four-game sweep of the Finnish
Women's National Team.''

Yikes, I think this is bad news for Team Canada! :-)

Andria

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