Katie Crowley

Katie Crowley enters her 16th season as the Jane Rattigan Head Women's Hockey Coach in the 2022-23 season.

In the 18 years since Katie (King) Crowley arrived on the Heights, the Boston College women’s hockey team has undergone a transformation.

From a sub-.500 team when she arrived as an assistant coach to a national power 15 years after becoming head coach, Crowley has established the Eagles as one of the elite programs in the nation. For her success, Crowley is the two-time AHCA National Coach of the Year (2015, 2016) and the four-time Hockey East Coach of the Year (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016).

In her 15 seasons as head coach since assuming the role ahead of the 2007-08 season, Crowley has guided BC teams to six NCAA Frozen Fours (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017), 11 NCAA Tournaments (2009, 2011-2019, 2021), five Hockey East regular-season titles (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18), three Hockey East tournament championships (2011, 2016, 2017) and six Beanpot crowns (2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018).

Under Crowley, Boston College women's hockey remains the only Hockey East program - men's or women's - to finish in the top-4 of the league standings every season since 2010.

With BC’s 2-1 win over Maine on Feb. 14, 2019, Crowley picked up her 300th career win, making her just the 12th Division I women’s coach to reach 300 career wins and 16th coach across all divisions of women’s hockey to reach that mark. BC's 3-1 win over No. 2 ranked Northeastern in the 2022 Beanpot Tournament semifinal game on Feb. 1, 2022 marked Crowley's 350th career victory. Crowley is just the third female coach and eighth coach overall to reach 350 wins at the Division I level.

Her players have been just as prolific, earning the 2015 and 2018 Patty Kazmaier Awards, 15 Patty Kazmaier Award Finalist nods, 17 All-America honors, two National Rookie of the Year awards, seven of the last 13 Hockey East Players of the Year awards and six conference rookies of the year awards, in addition to 49 spots on Hockey East All-Star teams since 2008.

At the international level, Crowley’s BC teams have featured:

Eight United States Olympians
11 members of the United States’ IIHF World Championship squads
45 selections to U.S. Four Nations Cup rosters
27 nods on U.S. Under-22 Select Teams and 2 selections to the Canada National Development Team
27 players on IIHF Under-18 World Championship squads (23 Americans, 4 Canadians)

Additionally, both Crowley and her associate head coach – Courtney Kennedy, herself a two-time Olympian – have coached the U.S. U18 squad at the IIHF World Championships.

Between 2010-11 and 2015-16, the Eagles improved upon the previous campaign every year to become one of the most dominant teams in the nation. After establishing a program record for wins (22) in 2008-09, her 2010-11 program set a new mark at 24, which was then eclipsed in 2012-13 with 27 wins. That mark was once again re-established in 2014-15 when the Eagles posted 34 wins and then once-again shattered in 2015-16 when the Eagles went 40-1-0 on the year, the second-best final record in NCAA history.

At the conference level, the 2011-12 squad established a new program record for Hockey East wins with 15 victories, besting the 2008-09 team’s total of 14. That mark has been extended four straight years: 17 wins in 2012-13, 18 wins in 2013-14 and 20 – as part of an undefeated 20-0-1 season – in 2014-15 before BC posted a perfect conference record of 24-0-0 in 2015-16 season when the league schedule was expanded. The Eagles set the Hockey East record with a 52-game undefeated record in league play (51-0-1) between Feb. 15, 2014 and Oct. 14, 2016, and the team also holds the conference record for consecutive wins at 27.

Crowley was a member of the Women’s National Team that won its first-ever gold medal at the 2005 IIHF World Championship. As a standing member of the U.S. National Team from 1997 to 2006, she also competed in the Four Nations Cup, World Championship Tournaments and the first three Winter Olympics when women’s ice hockey was an official event. Crowley won a gold medal in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan; a silver medal in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City and a bronze at the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy. She took home five consecutive silver medals in the World Championships (1997, 1999-2001, 2004) and a gold medal in 2005 with Team USA.

A prolific scorer, Crowley’s 14 career Olympic goals – including a hat trick in the 2006 bronze-medal game – are tied for the Team USA lead, and her 23 career Olympic points are third-most among American women.

Crowley remains a Team USA legend. She retired after the 2006 Winter Olympics after scoring 265 career points and still ranks third among all players with 210 international appearances. In 2009, she and her 1998 Olympic teammates were enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

Crowley has worked with many national teams. The Eagles’ skipper was named head coach of the 2010 Under-18 National Team that captured a silver medal at the IIHF World Championship. A year prior to that, she served as an assistant coach for the Under-18 National Team – which won gold at the IIHF World Championship in Germany – and the U-18 Select Team. In 2006, she worked with the Under-22 Select Team. She has also worked as a lecturer, coach and instructor at numerous hockey camps throughout New England.

While a student at Brown, Crowley earned ECAC’s Ice Hockey Player of the Year in 1997 and Ivy League Player of the Year three times. She is the Bears’ all-time leading scorer with 206 points, racking up 123 goals and 83 assists in 100 career games. Crowley served as team captain as a junior and senior.

Crowley also lettered in softball while at Brown and served as a three-time team captain. She garnered Ivy League Player of the Year in 1996 and the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year in 1997. She is a Hall of Fame inductee for both hockey and softball at Brown.

The Salem, N.H., native graduated from Brown in 1997 with a B.A. in Organizational Behavior and Management. She earned her Master’s degree in administrative studies from Boston College in 2016. Crowley’s alma mater awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2011.

She married Ted Crowley, a former BC men’s hockey player and 1992 U.S. Olympian, in the summer of 2010. The couple has one daughter, Camryn.

THE CROWLEY FILE
HOCKEY COACHING EXPERIENCE
2003-07 Assistant Coach, Boston College
2007-Present Head Coach, Boston College

HEAD COACHING LOG
Year Team Overall Hockey East (Finish) Notes
2007-08 Boston College 14-13-7 9-9-3 (fifth)
2008-09 Boston College 22-9-5 14-6-3 (second) Beanpot Champ; NCAA Quarterfinals
2009-10 Boston College 8-17-10 7-10-4 (sixth)
2010-11 Boston College 24-7-6 13-4-4 (second) Beanpot Champ; HEA Tournament Champion; NCAA Frozen Four
2011-12 Boston College 24-10-3 15-4-2 (second) NCAA Frozen Four
2012-13 Boston College 27-7-3 17-2-2 (second) NCAA Frozen Four
2013-14 Boston College 27-7-3 18-2-1 (first) Beanpot Champ; HEA Regular-Season Champion; NCAA Quarterfinals
2014-15 Boston College 34-3-2 20-0-1 (first) HEA Regular-Season Champion; NCAA Frozen Four
2015-16 Boston College 40-1-0 24-0-0 (first) Beanpot Champ; HEA Regular-Season Champion; HEA Tournament Champion; NCAA Frozen Four; NCAA Championship Game
2016-17 Boston College 28-6-5 17-4-3 (first) Beanpot Champ; HEA Regular-Season Champion; HEA Tournament Champion; NCAA Frozen Four
2017-18 Boston College 30-5-3 19-2-3 (first) Beanpot Champ; HEA Regular-Season Champion
2018-19 Boston College 26-12-1 19-7-1 (second) NCAA Quaterfinals
2019-20 Boston College 17-16-3 14-11-2 (fourth)
2020-21 Boston College 14-6-0 14-4-0 (second) NCAA Quarterfinals
2021-22 Boston College 19-14-1 16-9-1 (fourth)
14 Seasons 354-133-52 235-75-30

Career Record (entering 2022-23): 354-133-52
Career Hockey East Record (entering 2021-22): 235-75-30
NCAA Frozen Fours (6): 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017
NCAA Tournaments (11): 2009 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021
Hockey East Tournament Titles (3): 2011 | 2016 | 2017
Hockey East Regular-Season Titles (5): 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18
Beanpots (6): 2009 | 2011 | 2014 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018
Olympians (8): Molly Schaus (‘10, ‘14), Kelli Stack (‘10, ‘14), Alex Carpenter (‘14, '22), Cayla Barnes (‘18, '22), Kali Flanagan (‘18), Megan Keller (‘18, '22), Emily Pfalzer (‘18), Haley Skarupa (‘18)

Patty Kazmaier Award Top 10 Finalists (15): Molly Schaus (‘09, ‘11), Kelli Stack (‘11), Alex Carpenter (‘13, ‘15, ‘16), Haley Skarupa (‘15, ‘16), Emily Pfalzer (‘15), Megan Keller (“16, ‘17, ‘19), Caitrin Lonergan (‘18), Toni Ann Miano (‘18), Daryl Watts (‘18)
Patty Kazmaier Award Top 3 Finalists (5): Kelli Stack (‘11), Alex Carpenter (‘15, ‘16), Daryl Watts (‘18), Megan Keller (‘19)
Patty Kazmaier Award Winners (2): Alex Carpenter (‘15), Daryl Watts (‘18)
National Rookie of the Year Award Winners (2): Daryl Watts (‘18), Hannah Bilka (‘19)

National Coach of the Year (2): 2014-15 | 2015-16
Hockey East Coach of the Year (4): 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16

USA HOCKEY COACHING LOG
2006 Assistant Coach, U22 Select Team
2008 Assistant Coach, U18 National & Select Teams
2009 Assistant Coach, U18 IIHF World Championship (gold)
2010 Head Coach, U18 IIHF World Championship (silver)

PLAYING HIGHLIGHTS
USA Hockey
1997 IIHF World Championships (Canada) Silver
1998 Olympic Games (Nagano) Gold
1999 IIHF World Championships (Finland) Silver
2000 IIHF World Championships (Canada) Silver
2001 IIHF World Championships (U.S.) Silver
2002 Olympic Games (Salt Lake City) Silver
2004 IIHF World Championships (Canada) Silver
2005 IIHF World Championships (Sweden) Gold
2006 Olympic Games (Turin) Bronze
2006 USA Hockey Women’s Player of the Year

Brown University
1993-97 Women’s Ice Hockey
1995, 1996, 1997 - Ivy League Player of the Year
1997 - ECAC Player of the Year
Career scoring leader (123-83-206)

1994-97 Softball
1996 - Ivy League Softball Player of the Year
1997 - Ivy League Picher of the Year

1995, 1996 Bessie Rudd Award
Presented to the female varsity athlete who has done the most to promote women's sports during the year. Consideration is based on enthusiasm, spirit and leadership