Bobby Jay is making his seventh appearance as assistant coach for the U.S. Women’s National Team after serving on the coaching staff at the 2012 and 2013 IIHF Women’s World Championships and the last three Four Nations Cups from 2011-13. He also served at the Women’s National Festival in Blaine, Minn., in 2011 and 2012.
Prior to joining Team USA, Jay served as an assistant coach of Harvard University’s men’s ice hockey team, a position he held from 2004-06 and again from 2009-11. From 1999-2001, Jay was an assistant coach with the Detroit Vipers (International Hockey League) and Manchester Monarchs (American Hockey League). In 2003-04, Jay served as general manager of the AHL’s San Antonio Rampage before joining Harvard.
Jay, who played professional hockey for 10 seasons as a defenseman in the IHL, AHL and NHL, is the hockey director for The Edge Sports Center in Bedford, Mass. and the East Coast Wizards hockey club.
Dr. Phil Johnson is serving as the team physician for the U.S. National Junior Team for the 16th and final time in 2023, having previously played a role in nine medal-winning U.S. National Junior Teams, including Team USA’s run to the gold medal in 2021 in Edmonton. He also was a part of the U.S. gold medal-winning squads at the 2017 and 2010 World Junior Championships. Additionally, Johnson was on staff for U.S. National Junior Teams that won silver in 2019 and bronze in 2016, 2011 and 2007.
Johnson also served as the team physician for the 2019 U.S. Men's National Team at the 2019 IIHF Men’s World Championship, 2018 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team and several Under-17 and Under-18 international competitions since 2000. He also served as the chief medical officer for the 2009 Under-18 Men’s World Championship in Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minn.
Johnson completed his U.S. Olympic physician training in 1999 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center and serves as a medical supervisor for the IIHF.
He currently practices orthopedic surgery at Orthopedic and Sport Medicine Specialists of Fargo and has served as the physician for West Fargo High School and Concordia College for the last 20 years.
A 1984 graduate of University of North Dakota’s Medical School, Johnson completed an internship at St Luke’s hospital in Fargo, N.D., and spent five years in residency as an orthopedic surgeon at Michigan State University-Kalamazoo. He was the chief resident during his final year of residency. Additionally, he completed a sports medicine fellowship at The University of Western Ontario.
Dr. Holly Johnson, joined Team USA in 2012 working as a team physician for our Women’s National Team. She is currently an orthopedic surgeon at Mass General. She serves as the Interim Director of Foot and Ankle Service and served as an instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Johnson specializes in helping people get back to their pre-injury level of activity, whether that is running ultra-marathons, playing collegiate ice hockey or simply walking for exercise.
Dr. Johnson earned her BA cum laude in English from Harvard University and her MD from the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. After completing her general surgery internship at New York Presbyterian Hospital, she went on to complete her residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Dr. Johnson's training culminated with a Fellowship in Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Surgery from the Hospital for Special Surgery as well. She joined the MGH Orthopaedic Staff in 2008.
Dr. Johnson treats all orthopaedic maladies of the foot and ankle, and has a particular interest in osteochondral lesions, ligament instability, foot and ankle trauma and Achilles tendon problems. She also treats sports-related injuries, deformity, arthritis and bunions. She has researched and published on flatfoot deformity and posterior tibial tendon insufficiency.
Johnson is serving as the head coach of the 2022 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team.
Johnson was elevated to head coach of the 2021 U.S. Women's National Team and made his debut in this role at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship in Calgary, where the U.S. took silver.
Previously, Johnson served as an assistant coach and began that role during the 2018-19 season. He made his debut at the 2018 Four Nations Cup in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where the U.S. won four games in a row on the way to winning its fourth consecutive tournament championship, and also helped guide the U.S. to its fifth straight gold-medal victory at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship in Espoo, Finland.
Earlier in the 2018-19 season, Johnson led the U.S. Under-22 Women's Select Team to a three-game sweep of its northern rival at the 2018 U22 Series vs. Canada in Calgary.
A long-time contributor to the U.S. women's program, he also previously served as head coach of the U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team from 2015-2018, helping the U.S. capture four consecutive gold medals at the IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship.
Prior to the 2021 college season, Johnson was named head coach of the University of St. Thomas Women's Hockey program. Johnson will lead the Tommies in their transition to division I hockey. Prior, he spent 17th seasons on the University of Minnesota coaching staff, Johnson has helped the Golden Gophers claim six national titles (2000, 2004, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016). He previously spent six seasons coaching at Bethel University from 2004-10, including three years as the men's hockey head coach.
Shelly Guzman Johnson is serving as the team dietician for Team USA at the 2018 Four Nations Cup in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has been a consulting sport dietitian providing nutrition services for the U.S. Women’s National Ice Hockey Team since August of 2015. Shelly resides in Seattle, Wash., and is currently a Registered Dietitian through 20/20 Lifestyles at PRO Sports Club, one of Microsoft’s corporate health and wellness programs aimed at helping clients with overweight/obesity and metabolic disorders.
Additionally as the sport nutrition specialist, she serves as reference for fellow dietitians, personal trainers, and physicians as well as provides guidance on product development and nutrition counseling for recreational athletes and weekend warriors.
Shelly’s sport specific experience also includes work with youth, collegiate, and high-level amateur and Olympic athletes as an intern for the Elite Triathlon Academy, Olympic Training Center, and University of Washington Athletics Department.
Shelly holds a Master of Science in Sport Nutrition from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and is a Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics.
This is Dan Jablonic's first time serving as head coach for the U.S. Under-17 Men's Select Team.
Jablonic is currently USA Hockey's ADM Regional Manager and serves youth hockey associations in Illinois, where he is a leading resource for age-appropriate programming, training, competition and long-term athlete development.
In addition to his duties at the ADM Regional Manager, Jablonic has also served as a USA Hockey National Player Development Camp coach on multiple occasions. A USA Hockey Level 4-certified coach, he attended the North American Rink Conference and Expo (NARCE) in 2013 and gained his hockey director certification.
Jablonic's coaching career officially began with Skelleftea in 2005, where he served as an assistant coach for the club’s Under-18 team. He later served in the same capacity with the Skelleftea Under-20 team and as an assistant coach for the club’s Swedish Hockey League professional team before moving to Timra IK, where he was head coach of the club’s Under-20 team in 2007-08. He then moved on to Frolunda in Sweden’s top professional league, where he spent two seasons as an assistant coach before returning stateside to lead the youth program at Kettler. During his time coaching in Sweden, Jablonic assisted in the development of seven first-round NHL draft picks.
Previously, Jablonic served as hockey director at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Va., leading the in-house Rooftop program and Caps Academy. Additionally, Jablonic served as hockey director for the Washington Little Caps youth hockey program, which experienced unprecedented growth and success as a USA Hockey Model Association. During his years at Kettler, the Little Caps 14U and 15-only teams qualified for the 2017 USA Hockey Youth Tier I National Championships as district champions.
As a player, Jablonic skated with Blaine (Minn.) High School and then in the United States Hockey League (USHL) before enrolling at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he played NCAA Division I hockey with the Bulldogs from 1993-97. Jablonic earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UMD in 1997. He then played professionally in the ECHL before finishing his playing career with Skelleftea AIK in Sweden.
Jari Jaaskelainen is serving as the massage therapist for the 2023 U.S. Men’s National Team.
Jaaskelainen previously served as massage therapist for the 2016 U.S. Junior National Team at the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship.
For the past two seasons, he has worked as a massage therapist for the Finnish professional ice hockey team Porin Ässät in Liiga. He also served two seasons as a conditioning coach with the Finnish team Ilves’ Under-18 squad.
