DeCosta Joins Harvard Staff
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard women's hockey head coach Katey Stone has announced that Sara DeCosta - one of the most decorated goaltenders in the history of the sport - has joined the Crimson staff as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2007-08 season.
DeCosta played in two Olympic Winter Games as a member of the U.S. national team, including a remarkable stretch in the 1998 Nagano Games, when won three games and she helped the U.S. to a gold medal. She earned a silver medal at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
DeCosta also was a highly successful player at the collegiate level. She was a finalist for the 2000 Patty Kazmaier Award after she registered a 17-9-3 record with a nation's-best .943 save percentage for Providence. She had a career goals-against average of 2.15 with a .929 save percentage in nearly 5,000 minutes in the Friar goal. She was a two-time All-America selection, earning first-team accolades in 2000 and second-team honors in 1999, and was twice named a New England Hockey Writers All-Star and Providence's athlete of the year.
