Dartmouth Hires Simard as Assistant Coach
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HANOVER, N.H. -- Head coach Mark Hudak and the Dartmouth
women’s hockey program have announced the Big Green will be
welcoming Sara Simard as a new addition to the coaching staff.
Simard comes to Hanover following a two-year stint as an assistant
coach at the University of Maine in Orono. While with the Black
Bears, she was the recruiting coordinator and assisted in all
coaching responsibilities, including player development and on-ice
systems.
Prior to Maine, Simard was a volunteer assistant at Mercyhurst
College while attending the school to earn her master’s
degree in organizational leadership. She earned her master’s
in 2007. Her first assistant coaching job after graduating from St.
Lawrence University was at the North American Hockey Academy in
Stowe, Vt. She spent one season at NAHA and helped mentor and
develop players to get them ready for the next step.
Her playing career begin at Hebron Academy in Maine, where she
played two seasons and was team captain for both of those years.
She also led Hebron to the New England Prep School Athletic
Conference Championship in 1999. Following her prep school career,
she played four years at St. Lawrence University and help lead the
Saints to four ECAC Hockey Tournaments, two NCAA Frozen Fours and
was a four-time member of the ECAC Hockey All-Academic Squad.
A 2004 graduate of St. Lawrence, Simard played one year of
professional hockey with Lugano and earned a tryout with the Swiss
National Team during her stint in Lugano, Switzerland.
