McKenna Tabbed for 2009 IIHF World Championship
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Former Brown standout Jodi
McKenna, who currently serves as head coach at Wesleyan University,
today was named as an assistant coach for the U.S. Women's National
Team at the 2009 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's
Championship, set for April 4-12 in Hameenlinna, Finland. McKenna
joins the University of Wisconsin's Mark Johnson, who was
previously named the head coach for Team USA through the 2010
Olympic Winter Games.
McKenna is currently in her second season as the head coach at
Wesleyan after spending nine seasons as an assistant coach at St.
Lawrence University. In her nine seasons with St. Lawrence, she
helped the Saints qualify for the NCAA tournament five times,
making it to the Frozen Four on each occasion and playing in the
title game in 2001.
A 1998 graduate of Brown University, McKenna played four seasons
for the Bears, and helped the team team capture an ECAC
regular-season or tournament title three times. She has been
involved with USA Hockey Player Development Camps and was an
assistant coach at USA Hockey's Women's Under-22 Camp last summer
and at the USA Hockey Women's Holiday Camp in December.
