Katey Stone, the Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Ice Hockey, is the winningest coach in the history of Division I women’s hockey, as she has amassed 339 victories over the course of her storied career.  Stone, who is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the women’s collegiate game, has spent all 16 of her seasons as a head coach with the Crimson.

Stone, who served as head coach of the gold-medal winning U.S. Women’s Under-18 National Team at the World Championships in January 2008, was the third coach in women’s college hockey history to win 300 games.

Stone, who appeared 33rd on New England Hockey Journal’s “Top 50 Most Influential People in New England Hockey”, has led the Crimson to an incredible 339-144-27 (.691) record in her tenure, including the 1999 AWCHA national championship, three straight appearances in the NCAA championship game (2003, 2004, 2005), eight NCAA tournament appearances in the event’s 10-year history, six ECAC regular-season titles, five ECAC tournament championships, five Ivy League titles and 10 Beanpots.

In the 2009-10 season, the Crimson captured the program's 13th Beanpot title and earned a berth in the NCAA quarterfinals under Stone's tutelage. With a 5-1 Harvard win over Princeton in Game 1 of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals, Stone surpassed former Colby and Minnesota head coach Laura Halldorson, as she earned the 338th victory in her legendary coaching career.

During the 2008-09 campaign, Stone guided Harvard to a 12-game winning streak against ECAC Hockey opponents en route to the program’s second consecutive ECAC Hockey regular-season and Ivy League titles. 

Stone took the coaching reins from John Dooley prior to the 1994-95 season and posted a 12-11-2 mark in her first year as a head coach. The squad finished just under .500 over the next three seasons, but Stone orchestrated an extraordinary turnaround within the program, improving from 14-16-0 in 1997-98 to 33-1-0 and claiming a national championship in 1998-99.

In addition to the team success, some of the best individual talent in the sport of women’s hockey has laced its skates in Cambridge. In 15 years behind the bench, Stone has coached nine Olympians – including six who competed in the 2006 Torino Games – and six of the 12 winners of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, presented annually to the nation’s best collegiate women’s hockey player.

Crimson skaters have earned All-America honors a total of 21 times since 1999, including Jennifer Botterill ’02-03 and Angela Ruggiero ’02-04, the first players be four-time first-team All-Americans. In addition, Harvard has had eight ECAC Players of the Year, nine Ivy League Players of the Year, four ECAC Rookies of the Year, and five Ivy League Rookies of the Year.

In 2007-08, the Crimson went 22-0-0 in ECAC games, becoming the second team in ECAC women’s hockey history to finish the conference season with a perfect record. The Crimson captured the Beanpot, Ivy League, ECAC regular-season and ECAC tournament titles, made an appearance in the Frozen Four and saw Sarah Vaillancourt ‘08-09 become the latest Crimson player to win the Patty Kazmaier Award. Stone has been named ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year three times (1999, 2005, 2008).

In 2006-07, Harvard continued to play at an elite level, finishing the season 23-8-2, 17-4-1 in the ECAC Hockey League and ranked sixth nationally. Harvard went on to reach the NCAA tournament where it battled eventual national champion Wisconsin in a four-overtime thriller in the opening round. Also in 2006-07, Stone mentored another in her long line of Kazmaier winners, Julie Chu ’06-07.

The 2005-06 season might well have been one of Stone’s best coaching performances, as she led the Crimson to the ECACHL tournament championship and an appearance in the NCAA tournament despite the season-long absence of three players who were in training for the 2006 Olympics.

Under Stone’s tutelage, the 2004-05 version of the Crimson earned its seventh straight Beanpot and third league tournament title en route to its third consecutive NCAA Frozen Four bid and appearance in the national championship game. Harvard finished its third straight season ranked No. 2 in the nation.

Harvard also reached the NCAA title game to end the 2003-04 season. Stone’s Crimson went 30-4-1 for its second straight 30-win campaign.

In 2002-03, Harvard spent 14 straight weeks on top of the national polls, posted a 28-game unbeaten streak, captured the program’s fifth straight Beanpot and clinched the ECAC regular-season and Ivy League titles en route to an appearance in the NCAA championship game. The Crimson opened the Frozen Four with a dominating 6-1 win over Minnesota before falling, 4-3, in double overtime to Minnesota Duluth in what has been called one of the greatest games in women’s collegiate hockey history.

In 1998-99, Stone guided her team to the greatest season the Harvard women’s program has ever seen. The Crimson finished with a 33-1 record, including 30 straight wins to close the season. That undefeated run culminated in a thrilling 6-5 overtime victory over New Hampshire in the AWCHA national championship game. Harvard also captured the Beanpot and Ivy League title, as well as the program’s first ECAC regular-season and tournament championships.

After leading the Crimson to the 1999 AWCHA national championship, Stone was rewarded with ECAC/KOHO and New England Hockey Writers’ Coach of the Year honors. In addition, she was named the American Hockey Coaches Association Women’s Coach of the Year and the New England College Athletic Conference Women’s Division I Coach of the Year. Stone repeated as the New England Hockey Writers Coach of the Year for the 2000-01 season.
Stone continues to be an integral voice in the sport of women’s hockey. She is a member of the NCAA Championship committee and previously served as a member of the NCAA rules committee, the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award selection committee and president of the American Women’s Hockey Coaches Association.

Stone is also active within the U.S. National Development Camps and coached with the 1996 U.S. National Team. In November 2008, Stone led Team USA to the gold medal at the Four Nations Cup in Lake Placid, N.Y.  She was named coach of the U.S. Women’s Under-22 Select Team in 2006.

Stone graduated from New Hampshire in 1989 with a degree in physical education. She was a captain and four-year letterwinner in both hockey and lacrosse for the Wildcats. Stone helped the hockey team win ECAC championships in 1986 and 1987 and the lacrosse team capture an NCAA title in 1985. She earned All-ECAC honors in hockey and was a two-time All-America selection in lacrosse.

Before coming to Harvard, Stone served as assistant athletic director and coach at Tabor Academy and also had coaching stints at Northfield Mount Hermon and Phillips Exeter Academy.

Her family is deeply rooted in athletics as her father and siblings have all been involved with coaching and education.

A native of Watertown, Conn., Stone now resides in Arlington, Mass.