Dr. Colleen Hacker, Ph.D. Professor, Sport & Exercise Psychology, has served as the U.S. Women's National Team’s Mental Skills Coach since 2011.
An internationally recognized authority on the psychology of peak performance, Dr. Colleen Hacker has served as the Sports Psychology Consultant to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team since 1996. During her tenure, The National Team won a Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympic Games, the 1998 Goodwill Games and the 1999 World Cup. Named as an Assistant Coach in 2000, Dr. Hacker helped lead the National Team to a Silver Medal at the Sydney Olympic Games and a third place finish in the 2003 World Championships. The team also won a gold medal in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. The United States is the only country in the world to finish in the top three of every major world championship in soccer history.
In addition to her work with the National Soccer Team, Dr. Hacker works with professional, international and Olympic athletes in a variety of sports. Her strategies for peak performance are sought by corporations, business groups, professional sport teams, civic organizations and both print and television media. With more than 20 years experience in higher education, she is currently a professor and an Assistant Dean at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Hacker has conducted extensive, applied research in the field of sport psychology with particular emphasis on peak performance, cohesion, leadership and performance success and moral development in sport.
Dr. Hacker received her Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education from Lock Haven University (Pa.). She earned her master's degree in exercise and sports science at the University of Arizona and received her Ph.D. in exercise and movement science from the University of Oregon in 1992.
Dr. Hacker has received numerous professional awards including the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award (the highest teaching honor awarded by the University), the National Association of Girls and Women in Sport Pathfinder Award, the National Association of Sport and Physical Education Inspiration Award, the President Medal from Pacific Lutheran University, the American Psychological Association's Presidential Citation, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Letter of Commendation, and the National Award of Excellence, to name a few. She is a member of the Advisory Panel for the Center for Sport Parenting through the Institute for International Sport, Club Life Magazine, the NSCAA National Coaching Staff and has served on the United States Olympic Committee Performance Enhancement Team.
Bill Hall will serve as Team Leader at his fifth International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Men's World Championship. Hall is a member of USA Hockey’s Executive Committee and currently serves as secretary, a position he has held since 2004.
The Potsdam, N.Y. native most recently served as Team Leader with the U.S. National Under-18 Team at the 2016 Five Nations Tournament in Rauma, Finland.
Hall’s involvement with USA Hockey includes serving on the Player Development Committee since 1992, working as a camp advisor at the National Junior Camp during that span. Additionally, he was USA Hockey’s district director (N.Y.) from 1991-2004.
Hall is a retired, Suffolk County (N.Y.) police officer and a U.S. Navy veteran. He resides in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
Marissa Halligan joined USA Hockey staff in October 2008. As manager of women's hockey, she serves as the staff liaison to the girls and women’s section of USA Hockey to help manage and develop the game at district and national levels. Halligan assists the twelve districts and affiliates with player development, membership growth and retention. In addition, some of her annual responsibilities include district/affiliate select camp tryouts, district player development events, coordinating and managing select player development camps, assisting with the USA Hockey Girls'/Women’s National Championships and providing support with national-team events.
She has assisted with the overall operations of the Women’s National Team Program and U18 program since 2010 and has attended multiple IIHF World Championships in that capacity. She served as the video coordinator for the Women's National Team during the 2013- 2014 season.
Halligan graduated from Hamilton College in 2005, where she played four years of collegiate hockey. She earned a master’s degree in Sports leadership from Northeastern University in 2010. For three years prior to joining USA Hockey, Halligan was the head coach of the girl's hockey team at St. Mark’s School (Southborough, MA) and Asst. Director of the Annual Fund.
Jamie Healy is serving as an equipment manager for the U.S. Men's National team at the IIHF Men's World Championship for the fourth time in 2024, having served in a similar capacity for the 2023, 2021, and 2015 tournaments.
Healy has served as an assistant equipment manager for the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets since the club’s inaugural 2000-01 season. Prior to Columbus, he spent the 1999-00 season as equipment manager for the East Coast Hockey League champion Peoria Rivermen.
A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Healy has also served as the equipment manager for the Alexandria Warthogs (WPHL, 1998-99) and Kalamazoo Wings (IHL, 1993-95).
Brent Hill returns was an assistant coach for the 2024 U.S. Women's National Team after serving in the same capacity for the gold medal-winning 2023 U.S. Women's National Team.
Hill is currently serving as an assistant coach of the Quinnipiac Women' Ice Hockey team, a role he's held for the last two seasons.
Hill was on the bench as an assistant coach for the 2015 U.S. Under-18 Women's World Championship, leading the squad to a gold medal at the 2015 IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship.
Prior to Quinnipiac, Hill spent four seasons at the helm of Bishop Kearny Selects Academy, following a season as an assistant coach at Merrimack University and four seasons as an assistant coach at RPI.
Jason Hodges is serving as the athletic trainer of the U.S. Under-18 Men's National Team for the ninth time at the 2023 IIHF Under-18 Men's World Championship, having most recently been on staff for the 2021 event. He also served on the medical staff for five gold-medal squads (2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017), two silver medal teams (2007, 2013) and one bronze medal-winning group (2019) at the event.
Hodges, who is in his 23rd season with USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program, is serving as athletic trainer for the Under-18 Team for the 2022-23 campaign. No stranger to international competition, the New Baltimore, Mich., native served as athletic trainer for the 2022 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team and the U.S. Men's National Team at the 2021 IIHF Men's World Championship, where he collected a bronze medal.
Additionally, Hodges has been on staff for six U.S. National Junior Teams (2002, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2021), collecting gold in 2013, 2017 and 2021 and bronze in 2011, and worked with seven World Under-17 Challenge squads, with first-place finishes in 2001, 2010, and 2014 (Jan.).
Hodges is a 1998 graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in movement science from the division of kinesiology. He earned his master’s degree in athletic training from Indiana State University in 1999.
David Hoff, who has served as head coach of the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team since the 2018-19 season, is currently in his sixth season as head coach of the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team in 2023-24.
Hoff made his debut with the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team as an assistant coach in the 2016-17 season and took over as head coach in 2018-19. In his debut season as bench boss, Hoff coached Team USA to a 10-1-0-1 (W-OTW-OTL-L) record, including an undefeated 4-1-0-0 (W-OTW-OTL-L) mark at the 2019 Para Ice Hockey World Championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic. He added a second world championship gold medal to his resume after guiding Team USA to a top-of-the-podium finish at the 2021 IPC Para Ice Hockey World Championship in Ostrava, its record fifth gold medal in world championship history. In his first-ever Paralympics in 2022, Hoff led team USA to a Paralympic gold medal in Beijing with a perfect 4-0-0-0 (W-OTW-OTL-L) record for the tournament. Hoff helped guide the team to his third World Championship gold medal at the 2023 World Para Ice Hockey Championship in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Hoff has previously been part of the coaching staff of a U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team, serving as an assistant to Guy Gosselin at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games where the U.S. captured an unprecedented third-straight Paralympic gold medal in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Hoff’s engagement with USA Hockey stems beyond his responsibilities with the U.S. National Sled Team program. For over a decade, he has also been dedicated to USA Hockey's Coaching Education Program, serving as the Northern Plains District Coach-In-Chief. A lifelong educator, Hoff served as athletic director, mathematics teacher and head coach for the boys' ice hockey team at Bottineau (N.D.) High School before retiring in 2019.
Paul Holmgren was selected to join the U.S. Men’s National Team Advisory Group in 2009. The group was formed in February of 2007 to assist USA Hockey with the selection of players and staff of U.S. Men’s National Teams, including the Olympic Team.
On the international stage, Holmgren served as the assistant general manager of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team and the general manager of the 2006 U.S. Men’s National Team. He was also an assistant coach for Team USA at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games and the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
In addition, he played for the U.S. National Junior Team at the 1974 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship.
Holmgren is currently in his eighth season as general manager of the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers, leading the club to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in seven of the last eight seasons, including a berth into the Stanley Cup Finals in 2010.
Prior to being named general manager of the Flyers, Holmgren served as the club’s assistant general manager (1999-2006), director of player personnel (1997-99) and director of pro scouting (1995-97).
After an 11-year playing career in the NHL, Holmgren became an assistant coach with the Flyers upon retirement in 1985. In 1988, he became the first former Flyer to be named the team’s head coach.
Holmgren resides in Somerdale, N.J., with his wife, Doreen, and has four children, Greta, Jason, Kirsten and Wes.
Phil Housley is serving as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men’s National Team for the second year in a row and third time overall. Last year, he helped Team USA win the bronze medal in Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki Finland. He was also an assistant in 2011 (Bratislava and Kosice, Slovakia).
In 2013, Housley was head coach of the U.S. National Junior Team that won the gold medal at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Ufa, Russia.
He was an assistant coach for the U.S. National Junior Teams in 2007 (Leksand & Mora, Sweden) and 2011 (Buffalo & Niagara, N.Y.), helping each team collect a bronze medal.
In September 2012, Housley was one of two head coaches for the inaugural CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game in Buffalo, N.Y.
Housley became an assistant coach for the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators in 2013-14.
A seven-time member of the U.S. Men’s National Team (1982, 1986, 1989, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003), Housley earned a silver medal with the U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also helped Team USA capture the 1996 World Cup of Hockey title, and was a member of the 1982 U.S. National Junior Team. In May 2012, Housley was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.
A recipient of USA Hockey’s Bob Johnson Award in 2000 for excellence in international competition, Housley was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004 following his 21-year career in the NHL. A first-round pick (sixth overall) by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, he spent the first eight years (1982-90) of his career there and, in 2007, was inducted into the Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame. Housley finished his NHL career with 1,232 points (338-894), the most by any American defenseman. Housley recently completed his ninth season as the head coach of the Stillwater (Minn.) High School boys’ varsity ice hockey team.
A native of South St. Paul, Minn., Housley and his wife, Karin, reside in St. Mary’s Point, Minn., and have four children, Taylor, Reide, Wilson
and Avery.
Dr. Allyson “Ally” Howe started working with Team USA in 2010 as a team physician during the IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship. She is currently serving as the team physician of the 2022 U.S. Women's World Championship Team.
Since 2010, Howe has been to multiple events with USA Hockey, including having served as team physician for two U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Teams in both 2022 and 2018, the gold medal-winning national team from 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship and the silver medal-winning national team from the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship.
Her training in medicine began at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York, where she graduated with her MD in 2000. She entered the Air Force at the start of medical school and began her active duty career when she started residency training in Family Medicine at Travis Air Force Base in California. She was selected for a sports medicine fellowship training year through the Uniformed Services University from 2005-06. She taught family and sports medicine for the next 10 years in the Air Force initially at Andrews Air Force Base and then at Maine Medical Center from 2008-15.
Howe received numerous teaching awards during those years and was an assistant professor at Tufts, the University of Vermont and the University of New England. She has been a team physician for American University, the U.S. Naval Academy, University of Southern Maine, St. Joseph’s College of Maine and for the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League.
Howe currently works in Portland, Maine, at InterMed, a multi-speciality medical practice in the sports medicine and family medicine departments. In the fall of 2016, Howe retired from the Air Force after 20 years of combined active duty and Air National Guard service.
Howe played soccer and basketball at Hobart & William Smith Colleges where she graduated in 1994. She was a first team Academic and Athletic All American in 1993. In the fall of 2016, she was inducted into the William Smith College Hall of Honor.
Howe and her husband Dave have three children, Lucy, Charlie and Sam.
Jeremy Hoy is serving as the strength and conditioning coach for his first U.S. Women’s National Under-18 Team. He served in the same capacity for the U.S. Women’s Under-18 Select Team at the 2017 Under-18 Series in Lake Placid, New York.
Hoy is currently a strength consultant with the Robert Morris University men's and women's hockey teams and men's and women's lacrosse in addition to being the head strength and conditioning coach for the Youngstown (Ohio) Phantoms. He is also the founder and current performance director for Pittsburgh-based Finish First Sports Performance.
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, native is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) with the NSCA, a performance enhancement specialist (PES) with the NASM, a NASE certified instructor in speed and explosion training, and a Flex Band Certified Instructor.
Hoy has a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Slippery Rock University, and a master’s degree in performance enhancement and injury prevention from California University of Pennsylvania.
John Hynes is making his third coaching appearance with the U.S. Men's National Team in 2024 after serving as head coach at the 2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship, and as an assistant coach for the 2019 tournament.
Hynes previously spent six seasons (2003-09) behind the bench as a head coach at USA Hockey's National Team Development Program, leading his squads to a 188-131-16-10 overall record. During that time, he led the U.S. to three medals at the IIHF U18 Men's World Championship, claiming gold in 2006, silver in 2004 and bronze in 2008.
In 2004, Hynes helped the U.S. to its first-ever gold medal at the IIHF World Junior Championship as an assistant coach. Additionally, he was previously named an assistant coach for the U.S. team that will compete in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
The Rhode Island native recently completed his first season as head coach of the Minnesota Wild in 2023-24. Before joining the Wild, Hynes spent parts of four seasons as head coach of the Nashville Predators from 2020-23.
Hynes previously spent four seasons as head coach of the National Hockey League’s New Jersey Devils. During the 2017-18 season, he led New Jersey to its first playoff appearance since the 2011-12 campaign. He joined the Devils after six seasons with the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins of the AHL, including five as head coach. In his time behind the bench, Hynes, who was named the 2011 AHL Coach of the Year, accumulated a 231-126-27 record. He guided the Penguins to five straight 40-plus win seasons and five consecutive playoff berths, including back-to-back appearances in the conference finals. In 2013, the Penguins became the first team in AHL history to overcome a 3-0 series deficit by taking the sixth and seventh games on the road. Furthermore, Hynes became the second-fastest coach in AHL history to reach the 100 career wins mark by doing so in just 152 games.
Hynes also spent time coaching at the college level, serving as an assistant coach at UMass-Lowell in 2000-01 and at the University of Wisconsin in 2002-03 after beginning his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Boston University.
As a player, Hynes, a forward, played four seasons (1993-97) at Boston University where he competed in four NCAA Frozen Fours, winning the championship title in 1995. He reached career highs his junior season, totaling four goals and six assists.
Mike Hastings is serving as an assistant coach for the 2022 U.S. Men’s National Team for the first time, but is no stranger to international hockey.
He will be behind the bench of a U.S. team for the seventh time, with his last appearance as assistant coach for the 2022 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team. Prior to his Olympic role, Hastings served as head coach of the silver medal-winning U.S. National Junior Team at the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship.
An assistant coach for the 2005 U.S. National Junior Team, Hastings filled the same role with the 2003 U.S. National Junior Team and twice served as head coach of the U.S. Junior Select Team, including in 2000 when Team USA won the Viking Cup.
He recently finished his 10th season as head coach at Minnesota State and guided the Mavericks to a nation-best 38 wins and a national runner-up finish. The Spencer Penrose Award recipient as the top coach in NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey the past two seasons, Hastings has led Minnesota State to more wins than any other team over the past decade with a 274-96-24 mark.
His teams have advanced to the NCAA Tournament on seven occasions, including a trip to the Frozen Four the past two seasons; won eight conference regular-season titles, including an unprecedented five consecutive (2018-22); and four league post-season championships.
The three-time NCAA Coach of the Year arrived at Minnesota State following a three-year stint (2009-12) as the associate head coach for the University of Nebraska-Omaha men’s ice hockey team. He also served as an assistant coach with the men's hockey program at the University of Minnesota (2008-09) for one season after a 14-year run (1994-2008) as head coach and general manager of the United States Hockey League's Omaha Lancers.
During his time in Omaha, the Lancers never had a losing season as he helped the team capture three Anderson Cups (2001-02, 2004-05 (shared), 2007-08) as the league's regular-season champion and a trio of Clark Cup titles (1998, 2001, 2008) as the USHL's playoff champion. Hastings, who left the USHL as the league’s all-time winningest coach with a 529-210-56 (W-L-T) record, was named USHL Coach of the Year twice (1997, 2002) and league General Manager of the Year on five occasions (1997, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008).
A 1993 graduate of St. Cloud State University, Hastings played two years for the Huskies (1986-88) before a back injury ended his playing career.
Caroline Heatley currently serves as associate athletic director at Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., where she has been since 2010.
Heatley has also served as hockey operations support for the USA Hockey women's programs in varying capacities over the past decade. She has been active in USA Hockey as a coach, evaluator, festival and player development director.
Heatley earned her bachelor’s degree in communications (1995) and her master’s degree in sports leadership (2010) from Northeastern University, where in her senior year she captained the Huskies women’s ice hockey team. She then served for two years as assistant athletic director at Proctor Academy before joining the faculty at Lawrence to serve in a variety of roles (from 1997 to 2003) and coached the girls’ hockey team to two ISL championships (her teams also competed in the New England championships in four of her five seasons as head coach).
For seven years, Heatley worked at Dexter and Southfield Schools in Brookline, Mass., and oversaw the addition of a high school athletic program to the school and coached girls’ varsity hockey for five seasons.
From 2001 to 2009, she was also president of the New England Prep School Girls’ Ice Hockey Association, oversaw all administrative aspects of the coaches’ organization, and provided oversight for all aspects of the New England Championship Tournament.
Katie Homan served as the head athletic trainer for the U.S. Women's National Team since 2021 working IIHF Women's World Championships, along with the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. She was also on staff for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
Homan currently serves as the head athletic trainer for PWHL Minnesota.
She previously joined the Oregon State athletic training staff after three years as an assistant athletic trainer at Loras College where she worked with cross-country, women’s volleyball, wrestling and women’s lacrosse teams.
An Otterbein University graduate, Homan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Athletic Training in 2008 and went on to complete a four-month internship at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex. She would go on to attend graduate school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where she earned a Master’s of Arts degree in Exercise and Sport Science with a specialization in Athletic Training in 2011. As a graduate assistant athletic trainer, Homan worked with the women’s basketball and rowing teams.
Rich Hansen is serving as general manager of the U.S. Under-17 Men’s Select Team for the second straight season in 2023. In addition, he served an assistant coach for the team in 2019.
Hansen currently serves as a manager of player development for USA Hockey where he works with local associations and programs in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Eastern Pennsylvania as a leading resource for age-appropriate training, competition and long-term athlete development.
Hansen joined USA Hockey in 2011, working in the adult hockey department, then became a regional manager within the ADM department in 2015 and assumed his current role in November 2022.
In addition, he has been part of the coaching staff for the Air Academy High School boys hockey team in Colorado Springs, Colorado, since 2011.
Prior to joining the USA Hockey staff, Hansen played six seasons of professional hockey after completing a four-year collegiate career (2001-05) that landed him among Mercyhurst College’s all-time NCAA Division I scoring leaders. The New York native is a Level 4-certified USA Hockey coach.
Ariana Habas is serving as Strength and Conditioning Coach for the U.S. Women's National team. She served in the same role during the 2019 U.S. Women's National Festival in Lake Placid, New York. is the founder of Overtime Strength, a practice in Minneapolis focusing on the applied science of athletic performance. The practice applies exercise physiology, nutritional biochemistry, sleep physiology, and techniques to reset compensation patterns to increase athletic performance, while simultaneously improving quality of life (healthspan).
Habas served four years as an Engineer Officer in the US Army, where she was ranked in the top 10% of her peers, reaching the rank of Captain. Following her time as a platoon leader, she acted as the brigade’s health expert serving to prepare over 1,400 soldiers for the physical demands of war-time operations.
Habas has spent the last two years working with NCAA Division I athletes at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Minnesota, respectively. She is a Strength and Conditioning coach for USA hockey, helping prepare the women’s team for another run at a gold medal. Habas has been mentored by some of the most experienced and innovative military leaders, strength and conditioning coaches, and exercise physiologists.
Habas earned her bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS). She also holds a Level II Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR) certificate.
Kyle Huson is serving as the digital content lead for the 2022 U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team for the first time. He has served as the digital content lead 2021 for the last three U.S. National Junior Teams, including the gold-medal 2021 edition, and the 2021 U.S. Men's National Team that captured bronze.
Huson joined USA Hockey as its digital content coordinator in February 2019.
Huson joined USA Hockey's communications department after spending 2017-18 with the Frederick Keys Baseball Club, the Advanced-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. Serving as the broadcast/PR/community relations assistant, he helped increase the team's digital presence through various forms of content distributed across the team's website and social media channels.
Additionally, Huson spent the first half of the 2018-19 hockey season as a live social contributor for the NHL, capturing content to be used across various league and team social media channels to drive fan engagement.
The Colorado native graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in journalism and communication. He was also a four-year member of the school's NCAA Division I men's ice hockey team.
Huson and his wife, Emily, currently reside in Colorado Springs, Colo. with their dog, Keyote.
Zoe Hickel makes her international coaching debut at the 2024 IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship as an assistant coach.
Hickel spent the 2022 season as the manager of hockey programing and community relations for the Coachella Valley Firebirds, prior she spent two seasons (2020-22) as the assistant coach for the Ohio State Women's Ice Hockey Team.
As a player, she helped lead Team USA to back-to-back IIHF Women's World Championship titles in 2015 and 2016. She was also a part of the 2010 U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team.
Hickel played two seasons (2015-17) with the Boston Pride of the NWHL and a season with the Kunlun Red Star (CWHL). She player her college hockey at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
This is Mike Hamilton's first time serving as an assistant coach of the U.S. National Under-18 Team.
Hamilton, who is in his first season as an assistant coach for USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program, served in the same capacity for Team USA at the 2023 Under-18 Five Nations Tournament, where the U.S. finished first, and again at the 2024 Under-18 Five Nations Tournament.
Named the 2020-2021 USHL Coach of the Year, Hamilton came to the NTDP after five seasons with the Muskegon Lumberjacks, where he is the winningest coach in Lumberjacks franchise history. The Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, native recently assumed the Tier 1 Director role for Biggby Coffee AAA where he will focus heavily on player development.
Hamilton played collegiately at Minnesota State University before a 23-year long career as one of the top youth hockey coaches in Michigan. Over the course of his 23 years, Hamilton won 15 Michigan Amateur Hockey Association state championships and the 2008 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament.
Ellen Hughes joined the U.S. Women's National Team staff as a player development consultant in October 2023.
In her role, Hughes will spearhead the development of national team players both on and off the ice, and serve as a mentor to help continue player development in all aspects.
As a player, Hughes was a member of the 1992 U.S. Women's National Team that won silver. She was named to the all-star team that tournament. A three-sport athlete at the University of New Hampshire, Hughes was inducted into the UNH Hall of Fame in 2012.
Dustin Halstead, who recently wrapped up his second season as assistant equipment manager for the Columbus Blue Jackets, is serving as an equipment manager for the U.S. Men's National Team at the IIHF Men's World Championship in 2024.
Dustin Halstead joined the Columbus Blue Jackets in September 2022 after spending 11 years as the head equipment manager for the American Hockey League’s Lake Erie/Cleveland Monsters. He joined the Monsters in 2011 and his tenure with the club included the 2016 Calder Cup championship season. He also worked his 1,000th professional game with the Monsters on December 8, 2021.
Halstead began his career as a locker room attendant for the Colorado Avalanche in 1999 and served in that capacity through 2005. He then served as an assistant equipment manager for the Avalanche before moving to Cleveland prior to the 2011-12 season. Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and raised in Denver, he now resides in Columbus with his daughter, Quinn. His older brother, Cliff, is an assistant equipment manager with the NHL’s Minnesota Wild.
Ty Hennes, who just completed his second season as an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins and sixth overall with the organization, is serving as an assistant coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team for the first time.
Hennes began his tenure with Pittsburgh as the team’s skating and skills coach starting with the 2018-19 season before being promoted to his current position to begin the 2022-23 campaign.
Prior to joining the Penguins, Hennes worked as the skills development professional at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex, the Penguins' practice facility. In addition to supporting the Pittsburgh Penguins Elite AAA travel program, Hennes also worked with the Penguins' organization.
Before joining the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex staff, Hennes was part of the USA Hockey staff as an American Development Model regional manager from 2013-2015.
Hennes played four seasons of collegiate hockey at Boston College, where he was a member of the Eagles' 2001 national championship squad. An alternate captain as a senior, Hennes helped Boston College reach the NCAA Tournament three times, including twice advancing to the Frozen Four.
After graduating from Boston College, Hennes signed with the Detroit Red Wings organization, playing three seasons of professional hockey. He skated for the Toledo Storm, Bakersfield Condors and Texas Wildcatters of the ECHL, and the Fort Worth Brahmas, Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs and Texas Brahmas of the Central Hockey League.
