Patrick Foley, a former USA Hockey assistant coach and three-year captain at New Hampshire, is in his third season as an assistant coach with the Crimson in 2009-10.

Foley directs the Crimson's penalty-kill unit. Harvard killed 84.9 percent of the power plays it faced in his first season, good for 24th nationally. In ECAC Hockey play, the Crimson had the league's top penalty kill at 91.3 percent. He also served as an an assistant coach for the U.S. National Junior Team at the 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship in the Czech Republic.

A native of Milton, Mass., Foley came to Harvard following two years as an assistant coach with the U.S. National Team Development Program, where he helped guide Team USA to a gold medal in the 2006 IIHF Under-18 World Championship and a silver medal at the 2007 championship.

Foley worked primarily with NTDP forwards during practice, with responsibility for team defense and penalty killing. He helped groom a group of 13 NTDP players chosen in the 2006 National Hockey League Entry Draft and saw NTDP forwards taken with the first two overall picks in the 2007 draft. He helped direct NTDP teams to a gold medal at the 2005 Four Nations tournament in Finland and a silver medal at the 2006 Five Nations in Russia.

Off the ice, Foley was in charge of evaluation and recruitment of potential players. A former NTDP player himself, Foley spoke to hockey associations across the nation on behalf of USA Hockey, served as the alumni liaison to the NTDP and monitored players' host families and academic progress. He twice served as a USA Hockey level 4 coaching certification symposium speaker. He also served as the director of the NTDP Summer Hockey School.

Foley was the second UNH player ever to serve as captain for three straight seasons. He helped the Wildcats to Hockey East titles and trips to the Frozen Four in 2002 and '03. He was a finalist for the 2004 Hockey Humanitarian Award, played for the 2000 U.S. National Junior Team and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2000.

A Dean's List and Hockey East All-Academic honoree, Foley earned a kinesiology degree from New Hampshire in 2004. While in school, he founded Team 25, a charitable organization. In that role, he organized an auction that raised money for a teen center and arranged for UNH hockey players to take stuffed animals to children in hospitals. Foley also participated in the first NCAA conference and seminar on celebratory behavior and rioting among college sports fans.

Foley attended St. Sebastian's School in Needham, Mass., before moving to Michigan and graduating from Pioneer High School while playing for the U.S. National Under-18 Team. Following his UNH graduation, Foley returned to the Boston area and worked in the community relations office of the Boston Red Sox.

Foley resides in Charlestown, Mass.