Katey Stone is one of the most successful coaches in the history of Division I women’s ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

. Stone has accumulated 339 victories and has coached 16 seasons as a head coach with the Harvard Crimson

Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson are the athletic teams of Harvard University. The school's teams compete in NCAA Division I. As of 2006, there were 41 Division I intercollegiate varsity sports teams for women and men at Harvard, more than at any other NCAA Division I college in the country...

. Stone was the third coach in women’s college hockey history to win 300 games.

Early life

Stone attended the Taft School, Watertown, CT and graduated class of 1984. Stone was a captain and four-year letter winner in hockey for the New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey

New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey

The New Hampshire Wildcats represent the University of New Hampshire. The Wildcats have never had a losing season in the 32-year history of the program. They have won five ECAC championships between 1986 and 1996. When the Wildcats joined Hockey East, they won four Hockey East titles from 2006 to...

 program. Stone was part of two ECAC championships in 1986 and 1987. In addition to ice hockey, Stone was an accomplished lacrosse

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...

 player at New Hampshire and was part of the team that won the 1985 NCAA title. She graduated in 1989 with a degree in physical education. Before Harvard, Stone coached at Tabor Academy

Tabor Academy

Tabor Academy is a highly selective independent preparatory school located in Marion, Massachusetts, United States. Tabor is known for its marine science courses...

, Northfield Mount Hermon School and Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...

.

Harvard Crimson

During her tenure, Stone has accumulated a record of 339-144-27 through the end of the 2010 season. Before the 1994-95 season, Stone replaced John Dooley as the Crimson head coach. In her first year, she put together a record of 12-11-2. Over the next three seasons, the Crimson would be below .500. In 1998-99, the Crimson would go from 14-16-0 to 33-1-0. Under Stone, the club won win the national championship in 1998-99. During her 11th season at Harvard (2004-05), Stone coached the Crimson to a second consecutive ECAC title. In the 2004 part of the campaign, the Crimson had a 7-6-1 start. After January 1, Stone led the team to an 18-0-2 finish. The Crimson qualified for their third straight Frozen Four appearance despite losing graduating Patty Kazmaier Award winners from the past two seasons.

She is a member of the NCAA Championship committee and was a former president of the American Women’s Hockey Coaches Association. On February 26, 2010, the Crimson defeated the Princeton Tigers women's ice hockey

Princeton Tigers women's ice hockey

The Princeton Tigers women's ice hockey team represents Princeton University.-History:On November 24, 1979, the Princeton Tigers played their first varsity game against the University of Pennsylvania. In winter of 1982, Princeton would snap the Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey program's string of...

 program by a 5-1 score. With the win, Katey Stone became women's college hockey's all-time winningest coach, surpassing former Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey

Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey

The Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota at the Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis. The team is one of the members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Division I...

 head coach Laura Halldorson.

Players

Stone has coached nine players that have competed in ice hockey at the Winter Olympic Games. In addition, six of the first 12 winners of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award (Jennifer Botterill

Jennifer Botterill

Jennifer Botterill, OM is a retired women's hockey player who played for the Canadian national women's hockey team, Mississauga Chiefs and the Toronto Aeros. Her final game was the 2011 Clarkson Cup final, a 5-0 loss to the Montreal Stars...

 twice, Julie Chu

Julie Chu

Julie Chu is an American Olympic ice hockey player who plays the position of forward on the United States women's ice hockey team and the Montreal Stars. Chu's hometown is Fairfield, Connecticut, although she resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts during her college years while playing hockey for...

, A.J. Mleczko, Angela Ruggiero

Angela Ruggiero

Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice...

, Sarah Vaillancourt

Sarah Vaillancourt

Sarah Marie Vaillancourt is a Canadian women's ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and a member of Montreal Stars .-Playing career:...

) were players under Stone’s tutelage.
Players for the Crimson have earned All-America honors a total of 21 times since the 1998-99 season. These All-Americans include the first players be four-time first-team All-Americans: Jennifer Botterill

Jennifer Botterill

Jennifer Botterill, OM is a retired women's hockey player who played for the Canadian national women's hockey team, Mississauga Chiefs and the Toronto Aeros. Her final game was the 2011 Clarkson Cup final, a 5-0 loss to the Montreal Stars...

 and Angela Ruggiero

Angela Ruggiero

Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice...

. Stone has also coached eight ECAC Players of the Year, nine Ivy League Players of the Year, four ECAC Rookies of the Year, and five Ivy League Rookies of the Year.

Postseason

• 1999 AWCHA national championship
• Three consecutive appearances in the NCAA championship game (2003, 2004, 2005)
• Eight NCAA tournament appearances

Titles

(Until end of 2010 season)

• Six ECAC regular-season titles
• Five ECAC tournament championships
• Five Ivy League titles
• 10 Beanpot championships

International

Stone coached the 1996 U.S. National Team. Ten years later, she was the head coach of the U.S. Women’s Under-22 Team. She was the head coach of the gold-medal winning U.S. Women’s Under-18 National Team at the World Championships in January 2008. In November 2008, Stone led the US National Team to the gold medal at the Four Nations Cup.