Scott Aldrich, who works full-time for USA Hockey as manager of hockey operations, is serving as equipment manager for the U.S. National Junior Team in 2024.
Aldrich is also serving as an equipment manager for the U.S. Youth Olympic Men’s Hockey Team for the first time in 2024.
He has a long history of involvement with U.S. teams on the international stage, including as equipment manager for the 2022 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team, his second Olympic appearance after serving in a similar capacity for the 2018 team.
Aldrich served as equipment manager for 10 U.S Men’s National Teams from 2013-19 and 2021-22, with bronze medals in 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2021. He has also been the equipment manager for eight U.S. National Junior Teams, including gold-medal squads in 2021, 2017 and 2013; bronze-medal teams in 2016 and 2011, and for the 2022, 2020 and 2015 teams.
Aldrich was also part of the staff of the U.S. Women's National Team during the 2019 Rivalry Series against Canada; for the U.S. Women's National Team's pre-tournament training camp ahead of the 2018 Four Nations Cup; and for the 2018 U.S. Women's National Team Evaluation Camp.
Aldrich has been with USA Hockey since 2003, and was promoted to manager of hockey operations for the organization in December of 2014.
From 1996-2001, Aldrich was the head equipment manager for Michigan Tech University's athletic department. He also worked for the East Coast Hockey League's Columbia Inferno from 2001-03.
Mike Ayers will serve as an assistant coach on his first U.S. National Junior Team.
Ayers was the goaltending coach for the silver medalist U.S. National Under-18 Team at the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation Men’s World Under-18 Championship in Sochi, Russia. Ayers previously served in the same capacity for the gold medal-winning Under-18 Team at the 2012 IIHF Men’s World Under-18 Championship in Brno, Czech Republic. In six games during the tournament, U.S. netminders allowed just four goals (0.67 goals per game) and had a combined save percentage of .970 with four shutouts.
From 2011-13, Ayers was the goalie coach for USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition to his duties at the NTDP, Ayers coordinated the revolutionary Warren Strelow National Goaltending Mentor Program.
Currently, Ayers is in for his second season as an assistant coach at Boston College. In 2013-14, he helped the Eagles win the Hockey East regular-season title and reach the NCAA Frozen Four.
Before his time with the NTDP, Ayers spent two seasons (2009-11) as the goaltending coach at St. Cloud State University of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Prior to the 2009-10 campaign, he served as goaltending coach for the Iowa Chops, the American Hockey League affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Anaheim Ducks.
Ayers was a four-year standout at the University of New Hampshire (2000-04) where he appeared in 102 games and compiled a 58-25-12 (W-L-T) record. He was named USA Hockey’s College Player of the Year in 2003, the same season he earned American Hockey Coaches Association/JOFA East Second Team All-America honors. Ayers earned his bachelor’s degree in sports studies from the University of New Hampshire.
Ayers went on to compete professionally for four seasons (2004-08) in the American Hockey League, ECHL and Europe.
Carrie Aprik is serving as sports dietitian of the U.S. Women's National Team. Aprik has served in this role with Team USA since 2014. She is currently serving in the role for the 2022 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team and previously was in the role for the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship in Calgary.
As a crucial contributor to the U.S. Women's National Team Program, Aprik has also worked with the Under-18 Women's National Team at the 2019 IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship.
She is a registered dietitian and board-certified specialist in sports dietetics. Aprik works closely with the U.S. Olympic Committee as a consulting dietitian for the U.S. Women's National Hockey Team and U.S. Figure Skating, and served as a Team USA dietitian at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Additionally, she is the sports dietitian for the Detroit Pistons and Oakland University Division I Athletics.
Seth Appert will serve as the head coach of the U.S. Under-18 Men’s National Team for the first time at the 2018 International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Men’s World Championship. Appert is also serving as an assistant coach to the 2018 U.S. Men's National Team at the 2018 IIHF Men's World Championship for the second straight year.
He recently completed his first season as head coach of the U.S. National Under-18 Team at the NTDP in 2017-18, leading them to an NTDP-record finish in USHL play and a first-place finish at the 2018 Under-18 Five Nations Tournament.
Last season he served as an assistant coach at the Under-18 World Championship, helping lead Team USA to its record 10th gold medal. He also served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men’s National Team at the 2017 IIHF Men’s World Championship.
Prior to his arrival at the NTDP, Appert spent 11 seasons as the head coach of the Rensselaer men’s hockey team where he led the Engineers to the 2011 NCAA Tournament and the team’s highest ECAC finish in more than 20 years in 2012-13 when RPI finished second in the league.
A former president of the American Hockey Coaches Association, Appert spent the nine seasons prior to taking over the head coaching reigns at RPI as an assistant coach at the University of Denver where he helped lead the Pioneers to a pair of NCAA titles, three WCHA playoff championships and two WCHA regular-season titles.
In his 20 years in the collegiate coaching ranks, Appert has recruited and helped develop 13 All-Americans, 37 all-league selections, four Players of the Year, four Hobey Baker Finalists and 23 players who have gone on to play in the NHL.
His other USA Hockey coaching experience includes two stints as head coach (2008, 2011) and one as assistant coach (2007) of the U.S. National Under-18 Select Team that competed in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup.
A collegiate netminder, Appert was a four-year letterwinner at Ferris State University from 1992-96. He owns a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Ferris State and earned his master’s degree in management from the University of Denver in 1999.
Appert and his wife Jill have two daughters, Addi and Campbell.
Keith Allain is serving as an assistant coach for the 2021 Under-18 Men's National Team.
Allain has previously served as an assistant coach on three U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Teams (1992, 2006, 2018) and two U.S. Men's National Teams (2005, 2006). Allain is also a three-time head coach for the U.S. National Junior Team (2001, 2002, 2011). Additionally, he served as an assistant coach for the gold medal-winning 1996 U.S. World Cup of Hockey squad and was the goalie coach for the 2004 U.S. World Cup of Hockey Team.
A former starting goaltender for Yale, Allain began his coaching career following a two-year (1980-82) stint playing professional hockey in Sweden. He served as an assistant coach for Yale from 1982-85 before returning to Sweden to coach and serve as a scout in the National Hockey League.
Allain is currently the head coach of the men’s ice hockey team at Yale, where he led the team to its first-ever NCAA National Championship in 2012-13. Prior to returning to the Bulldogs in 2006-07, Allain was an assistant coach in the National Hockey league with the Washington Capitals from 1993-1997. In 1998 to 2006, Allain was the goalie coach for the St. Louis Blues, and claimed the William M. Jennings Trophy for fewest goals allowed in 1999-2000.
Allain is a Worcester, Mass., native and lives with his wife, Mi, and three children: Josefine, Julia and Niklas.
Alli Altmann is the current U.S. Women's National Team goaltending coach for the 2023-24 season after serving in the same role for the gold medal-winning 2023 U.S. Women's National Team, as well as the 2022 squad.
She recently served as goaltending coach for the U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team at the 2022 Under-18 Women's World Championship and U.S. Women's National Team, at the 2021 Women’s World Championship in Calgary.
For four seasons (2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2021-22), Altmann has served as the goaltending coach of the U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team. In the role, she helped guide the team to two gold medals (2020, 2018) and two silver medals (2022, 2019). She has also served as the goaltending coach for the U.S. Women's National Festival since 2016 (2016-2021).
In addition, her USA Hockey resume includes goaltending coach for the 2017 U.S. Under-18 Women’s Select Team that competed at the Under-18 Series vs. Canada in Lake Placid, New York.
The Eagan, Minnesota, native is the co-owner and vice president of DEVENIR Goaltenders.
Altmann played four seasons collegiately for Minnesota State University. During her time with the Mavericks, Altmann recorded a career .901 save percentage and also holds the school record for most games played with 110. The three-time WCHA All-Academic honoree led Minnesota State to the school’s first-ever WCHA Final Face Off appearance in 2009.
Dr. Anthony Abene is serving as team physician for the U.S Under-18 Men’s Select team for the first time.
A Los Gatos, California, native, Dr. Abene provides care for athletes at San Jose State University, the AHL’s San Jose Barracuda and the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.
Abene received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University before attending Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Abene spent three years with the United States Air Force on assignments in Germany, the Azores, and the Persian Gulf. He received several decorations, including both the Army and Air Force Commendation Medals. During this time, he was also appointed as a clinical professor in surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Emily Ach is serving as the team leader for the 2024 U.S. Women's National Team, after serving in the same capacity for the 2024 U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team.
Ach currently serves as the assistant coach for the Mercyhurst women's hockey team. She joined Mercyhurst following two years at St. Cloud State as the director of operations and video.
Ach played college hockey at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN where she received her bachelor’s degree in Elementary and Math Education. During her time at Augsburg, Emily worked for MAP Hockey as the Girls Development Director, working with players from 8U-College.
After college, she continued her hockey career, playing pro women’s hockey for Team Adidas in the PWHPA.
