Maura Crowell

Maura Crowell (born 1980) is an American former ice hockey player and coach. She is the head coach for the Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey team.

Playing career Maura Crowell grew up in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and played ice hockey and field hockey at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Mass.

She attended college at Colgate University, where she studied German, and played left wing for the Colgate Raiders women's ice hockey team. Crowell then went to Connecticut College, where she earned a Masters of Art in teaching. Crowell never had a losing season at UMass Boston, and became the winningest coach in the Beacon's program history in 2010.

In 2010, she was hired to be an Assistant coach for the 2010 USA Hockey women's national festival, held August 13–21 in Lake Placid, NY. With Crowell behind the bench, the team finished second in the ECAC and made it to the semi-finals of the ECAC tournament. They went on to the quarterfinals of the NCAA playoffs.

After Stone's return, Crowell was associate head coach for the 2014-15 season.

Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs Crowell was hired as head coach of the Bulldogs in 2015, after long-time head coach Shannon Miller's contract was not renewed. Very quickly, Crowell had success. In her second season, the team finished 25-7-5. The Bulldogs defeated Bemidji State in the quarterfinals of the WCHA playoffs, to make the WCHA Final Face-Off. They lost against Wisconsin by a score of 1-4, but earned a spot in the NCAA playoffs for the first time since 2011. In recognition of the team's success, Crowell won the USCHO Division I Women's Coach of the Year award. She was also recognized as the WCHA Coach of the Year and the AHCA Coach of the Year. In five years with the team, Crowell has built a winning program, but is still seeking to win a national championship.

Dartmouth Big Green On May 31, 2024, Crowell was named head coach at Dartmouth.

Team USA Crowell was selected as head coach for the U.S. National Women's U-18 ice hockey team in 2018-2019 and 2019- 2020. In her second season behind the bench, the US women's team won gold at the 2020 IHF U-18 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia. Team USA played arch-rivals Team Canada in the gold medal game, winning in overtime by a score of 2-1. Prior to taking on head coaching responsibilities, Crowell was an assistant coach with the US U-18 team in 2015-16 and 2017-28.

Crowell was listed as one of 20 notable people under 40 by the Duluth News Tribune.

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