Jim Radcliffe has been a strength and conditioning coach for the U.S. Women's National Team program since December 2016.
Radcliffe has been the head strength and conditioning coach for University of Oregon athletics for more than 30 years. Radcliffe plays a significant role in the Ducks’ football program as the designer of the year-round conditioning calendar in addition to working with the baseball and men's and women's track & field programs.
A graduate of Pacific University, Radcliffe played college football for four seasons. He also earned his master's in biomechanics from the University of Oregon in 1992.
Jill Radzinski began working with USA Hockey in 2008 during the IIHF World Championships in Harbin, China. During her tenure with USA Hockey she has also been a member of the UC Davis athletic training staff (since 1997).
Prior to her arrival at UC Davis, she held Certified Athletic Training positions at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, The Colorado College, and Bates College (Lewiston, Maine). In addition to her collegiate experience and National Team work she has also represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC. Radzinski has also functioned as the Head Certified Athletic Trainer with the USA Short/Long Track Speed Skating Teams as well as the USA Softball Team.
Radzinski has shared the classroom instruction role with Lisa Varnum; which has been an instrumental component of the student athletic training internship at UC Davis. Her clinical viewpoint incorporates functional, multi-faceted rehabilitation programs into the progressive hands-on/manual therapy treatment services. She has an avid interest in emergency medicine and applies this in the university setting as well as in the outdoor locale by functioning as a member of the National Ski Patrol with the Lake Tahoe Backcounty Ski Patrol.
She obtained her Bachelors of Science degree from Penn State University in the Athletic Training curriculum program. While at Penn State, she was an All-American field hockey player. As a graduate assistant athletic trainer at the University of Richmond, in Virginia, Radzinski earned her Masters of Science in Athletic Administration.
Kevin Reiter, the director of player personnel for USA Hockey's National Team Development Program, is serving as goaltending coach for the 2021 U.S. Men's National Team after holding the same role for the 2019 U.S. Men's National Team.
An assistant coach for the bronze medal-winning U.S. National Junior Team at the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship, Reiter has been part of the coaching staff of three gold medal-winning U.S. Under-18 Men’s National Teams at the IIHF U18 Men’s World Championship (2014, 2015, 2017) and also for the silver medal-winning U.S. team at the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games.
He was USA Hockey’s national goaltending coach for four seasons before assuming his current role as director of player personnel in 2017.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Reiter played four seasons (2000-04) at the University of Alaska-Anchorage before embarking on a seven-year professional career (2004-11). He was named the International Hockey League Goalie of the Year in 2008 after leading the Fort Wayne Komets to the Turner Cup championship.
Todd Richards is serving as assistant coach of the U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team for the first time.
The only other entry on Richards’ international coaching résumé is an appearance as an assistant coach of the 2010 U.S. Men’s National Team during the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship in Germany.
Currently, Richards is the head coach of the National Hockey League’s Columbus Blue Jackets, a role he’s held since May 14, 2012. Prior to being named head coach, Richards was the interim head coach for 41 games during the 2011-12 season after holding the position of assistant coach for the first half of that year.
Richards started his NHL head-coaching career with the Minnesota Wild in 2009-10, becoming the second coach in Wild history. With Minnesota, Richards built a 77-71-16 record during his two-year stint behind the bench while contributing to the development of many young players in Minnesota’s system.
Before heading to the Wild, Richards made a one-year stop in San Jose to serve as an assistant coach with the Sharks during the 2008-09 season. While in San Jose, Richards was in charge of a power play unit that clicked at a 24.2 percent clip, good for third-best in the entire NHL. The Sharks finished that season with 53 wins, 117 points and the Presidents’ Trophy.
Prior to making the jump to the NHL, Richards experienced incredible success during a six-year run in the American Hockey League with two different organizations. As the head coach with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins from 2006-08, Richards navigated his group to the 2008 Calder Cup Final. Before joining Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, he was an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Admirals from 2002-06. During his tenure in Milwaukee, the Admirals captured two West Division titles (2003-04, 2005-06), made back-to-back Calder Cup Final appearances (2004, 2005) and won the 2004 Calder Cup championship.
As a player, Richards enjoyed a 13-season professional career, including eight games in the NHL with the Hartford Whalers.
In the college ranks, Richards made the University of Minnesota his home for four seasons, leaving his mark on the school’s record book in the process. As a Gopher, Richards scored 30 goals and 158 points to become Minnesota’s all-time leading scorer among defensemen. In addition, his 128-career assists put him fifth all-time among all players in program history. Richards was team captain and a second-team All-American in 1988-89, helping Minnesota to a Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season championship and a National Collegiate Athletic Association title game appearance that season.
Richards and his wife, Maryann, have two sons.
Pete Rogers is serving as an equipment manager for the U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team for the second time. He previously worked on the staff of the U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team that participated in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy.
Additionally, Rogers has been Team USA’s equipment manager at seven International Ice Hockey Federation Men’s World Championships (1998-2002, 2005, 2013), most recently serving on the staff of the 2013 U.S. Men’s National Team that captured the bronze medal. Rogers has also fulfilled the role of equipment manager for Team USA at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and the 2004 Deutschland Cup in Germany.
Rogers has spent the last 15 years with the National Hockey League’s Nashville Predators as the club’s head equipment manager. He worked his 1,500th game as an equipment manager in professional hockey on Jan. 10, 2009, and his 1,000th game with Nashville on Nov. 12, 2011.
Elected president of the Society of Professional Hockey Equipment Managers in June 2012 after previously serving as the Western Conference representative, Rogers was the head equipment manager for the Eastern Conference All-Stars at the 2008 All-Star Game in Dallas.
Prior to joining the Predators in 1998, the SUNY Brockport graduate spent seven seasons as the equipment manager and director of team travel for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League. Rogers spent nine seasons as an assistant equipment manager in Rochester before a one-year stint as head trainer with the Hampton Road Admirals of the East Coast Hockey League in 1989-90.
Pete, his wife, Judy, and daughter, Alexandra, reside in Franklin, Tenn.
Dr. Ronald O. Royce, D.O., is serving as the team doctor for the U.S. National Sled Team at the 2024 April Sled Series in Calgary, Alberta.
Royce was most recently the team physician for the U.S. Men's National Team at the 2014 International Ice Hockey Federation Men's World Championship. He also served in the same capacity for Team USA at the 2011 IIHF Men's Under-18 World Championship, and for the U.S. Men's Select Teams at the 2003 and 2009 Deutschland Cups. Lastly, Royce was on staff for the U.S. National Under-18 Team at the 2006 Five Nations Tournament and the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team at the 2010 Japan Para Ice Sledge Hockey Championship.
Additionally, he served as a team physician for Team USA at the 2012 Paralympic Summer Games in London.
Royce is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon at Front Range Orthopaedics in Colorado Springs with more than twenty years of clinical experience. He concentrates his practice on shoulder and knee sports medicine and arthritis surgery. His area of special interest is the young arthritic knee and cartilage care for joint injuries.
He is a graduate of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his orthopaedic residency in Columbus, Ohio at Doctor's Hospital. In addition, he was a visiting resident at the Harvard Medical School Combined Residency Program studying Pediatric Orthopaedics and Total Joint Replacement Surgery. In 2004, he returned to Boston for a sabbatical fellowship in Biological Joint Replacement at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Cartilage Repair Center, a teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School.
Royce resides in Colorado Springs, Colo., with his wife, Kathy, and their sons, Collin, Jeff and Steve.
Paul Rucci is serving as an athletic trainer for the U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team for the third consecutive International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Women's World Championship.
Rucci is currently an athletic trainer at Colby College, where he has been working since January 2013. Prior to arriving at Colby, Rucci worked as the athletic trainer at Fort Kent Community High School prior to arriving at Colby. There, he oversaw all athletic training responsibilities for the student-athletes as Fort Kent Community High School.
Rucci received his Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from University of Maine at Presque Isle in 2011 before going on to earn a Master’s Degree in Athletic Training from California University of Pennsylvania in 2012 while working as a graduate assistant for their NCAA DII baseball and softball teams.
The 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship marks the first time that Mike Richter is serving as a goaltending coach with the U.S. Women's National Team.
A 2008 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame inductee and Olympic silver medalist, Richter played 666 career games during his 14-year NHL career, all of which with the New York Rangers.
The Abington, Pennsylvania, native began his career with the Rangers in the 1990-91 season, and was a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goalie in just his second full season in the NHL. In 1993-94, Richter was selected as the MVP of the NHL All-Star Game and went on to break the Rangers’ single-season record with 42 wins en route to leading the team to the President’s Trophy and first Stanley Cup title since 1942. Upon retiring in 2003, Richter finished his career with 203 wins, the second most in Rangers’ history.
Richter participated in three Olympic Winter Games (1988, 1998, 2002) for Team USA, and won a pair of games in 2002 to help guide the U.S. to the silver medal. In addition, he led Team USA to the inaugural World Cup of Hockey championship in 1996 and was named the tournament’s MVP. He also played in two IIHF World Junior Championships (1985-86), three IIHF Men's World Championships (1986-87, 1993) and the 1991 Canada Cup.
Richter played two seasons of college hockey (1985-87) at the University of Wisconsin before beginning his professional career.
Dr. Drew Rogers is serving as team physician for a U.S. Men's National Team for the first time here at the 2017 International Ice Hockey Federation Men's World Championship.
He previously served in the same role with the U.S. Under-18 Men's National Team at the 2016 Five Nations Cup in Finland.
Dr. Rogers is a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon with board certifications in the United States (ABOS) and Canada (FRCSC) and holds an added Subspecialty Certificate in Orthopedic Sports Medicine from the ABOS. He serves as Chief of Orthopedics at Morton Hospital and is on staff at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, practicing at Orthopedic Care Physicians Network in Raynham, Massachusetts.
He is also a team physician for Boston College Athletics, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Athletics, Taunton High School, and Coyle & Cassidy High School. He sits on the Sports Medicine Board for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and helps with the education of orthopedic surgeons with his work as an associate master instructor with the Arthroscopy Association of North America.
Dr. Rogers specializes in sports medicine and complex injuries of the hip, knee, and shoulder, with a subspecialty interest in arthroscopy of the knee, shoulder, and hip.
He received his medical training at Boston University Medical School and completed his intern year at Vanderbilt University and his orthopedic residency at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He finished his Orthopedic Sports Fellowship at Boston University, under the guidance of Dr. Anthony Schepsis and Dr. Timothy Foster, where he was a team physician.
Dr. Rogers lives in Medfield, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters.
Ron Rolston is an assistant coach for the 2018 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team, marking the first time he has served on the coaching staff for an Olympic team.
Rolston previously served seven seasons as the head coach of the U.S. National Development Team (2004-2011), where he led the team to three gold medals and one silver medal at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Under-18 Championship. He is considered to be the most decorated tenured head coach in U.S. National Team Development Program history, as a team led by him has never missed a championship game both in the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and the IIHF World Under-18 Championship.
Rolston began his coaching career as an assistant coach at four different NCAA Division 1 hockey programs, Lake Superior State University (1990-1995), Clarkson University (1996-1999), Harvard (1999-2002) and Boston College (2002-2004). Rolston was promoted to associate head coach to Lake Superior University in 1994 and guided them to two national titles (1992,1994).
Rolston took his coaching to the professional level when he served as head coach of the Rochester Americans (AHL) and led the team in back-to-back runs to the Calder Cup playoffs (2011-2013). He was elevated to head coach of their NHL affiliate, the Buffalo Sabres, for 51 games during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons.
Most recently, Rolston has spent two seasons with the Arizona Coyotes organization, one year as a professional scout (2014-15) and one year as head coach to their former AHL affiliate, the Springfield Falcons (2015-16).
Rolston played 3 years with Michigan Tech University, scoring 32 goals and 68 points in 110 games. He is currently an advisor to Rolston Hockey Academy, a private hockey school in Oak Park, Mich. He and his wife, Shannon, have two children- Ronan and Maeve.
Derek Repucci is serving on a U.S. National Junior Team for the first time.
Repucci spent 10 seasons with the Boston Bruins as an assistant athletic trainer and massage therapist. In that span, the Bruins captured one Stanley Cup (2011), two Prince of Wales Trophies as the NHL’s Eastern Conference playoff champions (2011, 2013), one Presidents’ Trophy (2014) as the NHL’s best team in the regular-season and six Atlantic Division titles (2002, 2004, 2009, 2011-12, 2014).
Prior to joining the Bruins, Repucci served as assistant athletic trainer and massage therapist at Duke Unviersity, where he also owned and operated an on-campus massage clinic in conjunction with the campus health center and the department of athletics.
Before Duke, Repucci was an athletic trainer at his alma mater, Springfield College in Massachusetts, where he worked with the football, volleyball and men’s basketball and lacrosse teams.
In addition, Repucci spent time with the Portland Sea Dogs, Johnstown Johnnies and Springfield Falcons in addition to a stint as the head athletic trainer at the Bridgton Academy in Maine.
A 1998 graduate from Springfield College, Repucci earned a bachelor’s degree in athletic training before receiving a master’s in exercise science and sports studies in 2004. He also earned a certificate in Massage Therapy from the New Hampshire Institute of Therapeutic Arts in 2002.
He and his wife, Leigh, have a daughter, Julianne.
Meredith Roth is an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-18 Women's National at the 2024 IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship, a role she previously held on the 2020 staff as well. She also served as an assistant coach of the U-18 Team at the 2019 Under-18 Series vs, Canada in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Roth currently serves as the associate head women's ice hockey coach at Harvard University. She had previously served as the Associate Head Coach of College of the Holy Cross for five seasons.
She previously served as head coach of St. Norbert College’s NCAA Division III women’s ice hockey program for the last four years. She guided the Green Knights to an appearance in the NCHA Championship game in 2016. At St. Norbert, Roth was in charge of all aspects of the program including designing and executing practice and game plans, managing the budget and business operations, developing assistant coaches as well as her student-athletes, and heading recruitment and retention efforts, just to name a few. She also served as a Western Region Representative for the NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Regional Advisory Committee as well as on the American Hockey Coaches Association’s National Issues Committee.
Prior to her time at St. Norbert, Roth had two stints as an assistant coach at Providence College, first from 2006-2010 and then again from 2012-2015. She helped lead the Friars to a Hockey East Regular Season Championship in 2010. Roth has also spent time as a volunteer assistant coach at Cornell University and as the head coach of the Shattuck St. Mary’s School’s U-16 team.
As a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team, Roth played with the U.S. Under-22 Select Team, as well as at the 2003 International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championship in China.
Roth is a 2004 graduate of Providence College and earned a bachelor’s degree in social science. She was a four-year member of the women’s ice hockey team and served as an assistant captain and co-captain during her junior and senior seasons. She helped the team to an ECAC East Tournament Championship in 2002 as well as two Hockey East Tournament Championships in 2003 and 2004.
Roth went on to earn her masters degree in sports management from the State University of New York – Cortland in 2013.
Kenny Rausch joined the USA Hockey staff full-time in June 2009. As director of youth hockey, Rausch helps oversee USA Hockey’s youth hockey department and programs, the youth and high school national championships, and all boys national player development camps. As part of his work at the development camps, he serves as the team leader of the U.S. Under-17 team that competes in the Under 17 Five Nations Tournament and assists in coordinating the Under-18 Select Team that competes at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup.
Prior to joining USA Hockey on a full-time basis, Rausch coached at numerous USA Hockey Boys' Select Player Development Camps, and was an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-18 Select Team at the 2004 and 2005 Junior World Cups (Hlinka Gretzky Cup).
Rausch spent the 2008-09 season as an assistant coach at Babson College, helping lead the Beavers to the 2009 ECAC East Championship. Previously, he served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 2001-08. While there, Rausch recruited a Hobey Baker finalist, a Hockey East Rookie of the Year, multiple Hockey East All-Stars, an All-Rookie Team member and an All-American.
Prior to his time Lowell, Rausch spent three years at Niagara University, where he was part of the first CHA championship team that went undefeated in league play. Before Niagara, Rausch spent one year at Colby College.
His first year of coaching was in the 1996-97 season, as an assistant coach for his alma mater, Boston University. He helped lead the Terriers to the Beanpot and Hockey East titles that year.
As a player, Rausch was a four-year member of Boston University's men's ice hockey team from 1991-95. He was a part of the 1995 team that won the NCAA Division I National Championship, the Hockey East regular-season title and the Hockey East Tournament, as well as the Beanpot, where he was named the Beanpot Most Valuable Player. Rausch was a four-year member of the Hockey East All-Academic Team and was a Hockey East Distinguished Scholar Award Winner. He also played one year of varsity baseball during his freshman year.
Michael Reedy is serving as digital content manager for the 2022 U.S. Under-18 Men's National.
Most recently, he served on the communications staff for the 2022 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team in Beijing, China.
Reedy is currently serving as a Brian Fishman Fellow at USA Hockey, an appointment which began in June 2021. During his tenure to date, he has served as the digital content lead for the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team that competed in the Border Series and is involved in all facets of USA Hockey’s overall communications efforts.
A graduate from Ferris State University in May 2020 with a bachelor's degree in Sports Communication, Reedy spent four years working in Ferris' athletic communications department where he served as an on-ice hockey reporter and color commentator for the university's hockey program.
Previous to USA Hockey, he served as the athletic communications graduate assistant at Valdosta State University where he gained experience designing, writing, and editing various communication materials for the athletic website and social media.
In addition, Reedy has served as a video and media production intern for the Kalamazoo Growlers along with a sports reporter for the Ferris State Torch.
Ruzzi is serving as an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-18 Women’s National Team for the first time. She has been involved with USA Hockey since 2006, including serving as the director of USA Hockey’s multi-district girls camp for the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Districts since 2017.
She is currently in her first season at the helm of Brown University's women's hockey team. Prior to her head coaching role with the Bears, she served as an assistant coach of the Princeton University women’s hockey team where she helped the Tigers to a program-record 26-win campaign, including the school’s first ECAC Tournament championship in the 2019-20 season. The team also qualified for the NCAA quarterfinals. Ruzzi began her coaching career at NCAA Division II Amherst College in 2005, where she was an assistant coach for two seasons. Following that, she served as an assistant coach at Harvard University before returning to her alma mater, Providence College, for six years (2012-18) as an associate coach.
A 2003 graduate of Providence College, Ruzzi was team captain in 2002-03 and captured Hockey East Honorable Mention honors as well as national all-academic accolades. She helped the Friars to the ECAC Eastern title as a junior and the inaugural Hockey East title in 2003.
Shawn Roche is serving as the video coach of the U.S. National Junior Team for the first time in 2023.
Roche, who is in his fourth season with the Quinnipiac University’s men's ice hockey team, leads video breakdown and analysis of all games and practices for the Bobcats in his role as director of men’s ice hockey operations.
In both of his first two seasons, Quinnipiac was crowned ECAC Hockey regular-season champion and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. During the 2018-19 campaign, the Bobcats picked up a first-round win over Arizona State to advance to the Midwest Regional Final.
Roche came to Quinnipiac after spending two seasons as a video coordinator and assistant video coach for the New York Rangers. Among his duties, Roche was responsible for video breakdown of opponent film pre-scout as well as game and practice filming, to make video available for coaches and players.
Additionally, he spent two seasons as a video coordinator and video coach with the Rangers' AHL Affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack. He also served as the video coordinator and video coach for Canisius College from 2012-14.
Kevin Ricks is serving as an athletic trainer for the U.S. National Junior Team for the first time in 2023.
Ricks currently serves as an associate athletic trainer at the University of Notre Dame, working with the hockey, men’s tennis and football teams. Ricks arrived at Notre Dame in 2001 and has also worked with the men’s and women’s fencing and track and field teams, as well as the women’s swimming and diving, soccer and rowing teams. Additionally, he works as the medical administrator for youth sports summer camps and oversees technological aspects for the Irish sports medicine department.
Before coming to Notre Dame, Ricks spent two years at the University of Mississippi as a graduate assistant athletic trainer, working with the Ole Miss football team and the Rebel’s track and field teams.
He earned his master’s degree in exercise science, with an emphasis in biomechanics, from Mississippi in 2001. Ricks spent the summer of 1999 as an intern at Chicago’s Athletico Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy Clinic. The summer before, he served as a student athletic trainer intern with the NFL’s former St. Louis Rams for training camp and preseason football games.
Ricks is a 1999 graduate of Western Illinois University, where he worked with various Leathernecks’ teams as a student athletic trainer. That same year, he became a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association.
Steve Rizzo is serving as team leader for the U.S Under-17 Men’s Select Team for the first time in 2023.
Rizzo is currently the third vice president and boys’ player development chair for Massachusetts Hockey and is also a USA Hockey director.
Garrett Raboin is serving as an assistant coach of the U.S National Junior Team for the first time in 2024.
The Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, native is in his first season as head coach of the inaugural Augustana University men’s hockey team in 2023-24.
Raboin completed a four-year stint as an assistant men’s ice hockey coach at the University of Minnesota with a trip to the NCAA Division I Frozen Four in 2023. In 2020-21, he helped coach Minnesota to its first No. 1 national ranking in six seasons. During his tenure, Raboin helped lead the Gophers to the Big Ten championship in 2022, and three NCAA tournament appearances (2021, 2022, 2023).
Prior to joining the Gophers, Raboin served as an assistant men’s ice hockey coach at his alma mater, St. Cloud State University. In six seasons with the Huskies, Raboin helped St. Cloud to five NCAA tournament appearances, including the Frozen Four in 2013, and three regular-season NCHC championships.
As a player, Raboin was a two-time All-WCHA selection and led St. Cloud State to three NCAA tournament berths. He served as captain his junior and senior seasons. Raboin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in special education from SCSU in 2010 before playing professionally in Europe for two seasons.
Brianna Rhone joined USA Hockey as digital content coordinator in December 2022.
Rhone, who graduated with a degree in strategic communications from Oklahoma State University in 2021, most recently served as social media coordinator for Black Girl Hockey Club and also worked for the PGA of America as championship office coordinator for the 2022 PGA Championship.
