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 356 victories over the course of her storied career.  One of the most successful coaches in the history of the women’s collegiate game, Stone has spent all 17 of her seasons as a head coach with the Crimson.

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 356-155-31 (.685) record in her tenure, including the 1999 AWCHA national championship, three straight appearances in the NCAA championship game (2003, 2004, 2005), nine NCAA tournament appearances in the event’s 11-year history, six ECAC regular-season titles, five ECAC tournament championships, five Ivy League titles and 10 Beanpots. Stone is just the fourth coach in women’s college hockey history to win 300 games and became the first to reach the 350-win plateau during the 2010-11 campaign. 

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 a program-record 33-1-0 and claiming a national championship in 1998-99. That year, the team closed the season with 30 consecutive victories, culminating in a thrilling 6-5 overtime win over New Hampshire in the AWCHA national championship game.

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 17 years behind the bench, Stone has coached nine Olympians – including five who competed in the 2010 Vancouver Games – and six of the 14 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 nine 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.

After leading the Crimson to the 1999 AWCHA national championship, Stone received 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.

She went on to lead Harvard to three-straight NCAA title game appearances (2003-05), three-straight ECAC regular season titles (2003-05) and tournament titles (2004-06) and the only back-to-back 30-win seasons in program history in 2003-04 and 2004-05. Harvard also spent 14 straight weeks atop the national polls during the 2002-03 season.

Stone helped the Crimson become the second team in ECAC women’s hockey history to finish the conference season with a perfect record, leading the 2007-08 squad to a 22-0-0 record in league play. Stone was named ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year at the end of the season, the third time she earned the award (1999, 2005, 2008). Two years later, Stone surpassed former Colby and Minnesota head coach Laura Halldorson for the NCAA Division I wins record, as she earned the 338th victory in her legendary coaching career with a 5-1 win over Princeton in Game 1 of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals.



Stone has been an integral voice in the sport of women’s hockey. She served as a member of the NCAA Championship committee, a member of the NCAA rules committee, a member of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award selection committee and president of the American Women’s Hockey Coaches Association.

In the summer of 2010, Stone was named the head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team and led Team USA to a gold medal at the 2011 IIHF World Women’s Championship and silver at the 2010 Four Nations Cup. Stone is also active within the U.S. National Development Camps and started her affiliation with the U.S. National Team in 1996. Stone led the U.S. to the gold medal at the first-ever IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in January 2008, and also coached the U.S. Women's Under-18 Team at the 2007 Under-18 Series and the U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team at the 2006 Under-22 Series.

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.

Team Honors Under Katey Stone            
• Beanpot Titles (10): 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010  
• Ivy League Championships (5): 1999, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009      
• ECAC Regular Season Titles (6): 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009      
• ECAC Tournament Championships (5): 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008      
• AWCHA National Championships (1): 1999                  
• All-American Tournament Titles (1): 1997                  
• NCAA Tournament Appearances (8): 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
• NCAA Frozen Four Appearances (5): 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008      
• NCAA Championship Appearances (3): 2003, 2004, 2005