Cara Morey (née Gardner; born July 31, 1978) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former player, who is the head coach of Princeton University's women's team, the Tigers.[1]

She was an assistant coach of the Canada women's national under-18 team for the 2016–17 season.[2] Prior to the appointment, she won gold as an assistant coach with Canada's national women's development team at the 2015 Nations Cup.

Playing career

Raised in Hensall, Ontario, Morey was a gold-medalist with Canada's Under-22 team at the 2000 Nations Cup, contested in Füssen, Germany. As a player for the Brown Bears women's ice hockey and field hockey programs, Morey won the Ivy League Rookie of the Year Award for field hockey in 1999.[3] As a field hockey competitor, she led the team in both goals (15) and points (38) during the 2000 season. In addition, she earned Second Team Regional All-American recognition for her efforts in the 2000 season. As of 2015, Morey ranked fifth all-time in goals (27) and sixth overall in points (66) among Brown Bears field hockey competitors.[4]

In her final ice hockey season with the Brown Bears, she registered 12 points (six goals, six assists) in 28 games played, including three power play goals and one game-winning goal.[5] During her time as a member of the ice hockey team, the Bears qualified for three AWCHA National Championship Tournaments.

Upon graduation, she played two seasons in the original NWHL, spending her first season with the Montreal Wingstar and her second season with the Brampton Thunder.[6][1]

Her playing career was disrupted in 2003 due to a snowmobiling accident, in which she broke a femur.[3]

Coaching career

While her husband, Sean Morey, played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, she was a coach at Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. She also spent time as a coach with the Phoenix Lady Coyotes U-19 AAA team, when her husband joined the Arizona Cardinals later in his career.

In 2011, Morey became the associate head coach of the women's hockey team at Princeton University, alongside head coach Jeff Kampersal. She was crucial to Princeton's run to the 2016 Ivy League championship and at-large berth in the NCAA tournament. In the summer of 2017, Morey was appointed head coach of the team when Kampersal left to be head coach at Pennsylvania State University. During her tenure, she helped lead the Tigers to the ECAC quarterfinals five times as well as the ECAC semifinals when Princeton went 20-10-3. As of 2017, Princeton had nine All-ECAC and 18 All-Ivy League selections during her years with the team. She helped Kelsey Koelzer earn first-team All-America honors in 2016, and recruited and developed goalie Steph Neatby, the 2017 USCHO Division I Rookie of the Year.[7]

Morey participated in Hockey Canada's female coach development initiative to promote world-class performance and leadership skills.[8] Also she works in the Philadelphia Flyers development camp in 2021-2023

Awards and honours

Personal

Morey graduated from Brown University in 2001.[7]

Her husband Sean Morey was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers roster that won Super Bowl XL. Together, they have three daughters: Devan, Kathryn and Shea.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Proulx, William (2017-06-28). "Morey named head coach of Princeton University Tigers". Exeter Times-Advocate. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  2. ^ "Coaching staffs named for Canada's National Women's Development Team and Canada's National Women's Under-18 Team". Hockey Canada. 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  3. ^ a b c Duff, Bob (2009-12-20). "NFLer says wife's 'a better athlete'". Windsor Star. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  4. ^ "Cara Gardner '01". Brown Bears. 2015-02-04. Archived from the original on 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  5. ^ "Cara Gardner: Career Stats". USCHO.com. n.d. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  6. ^ "Elite Prospects: Cara Morey". Elite Prospects. n.d. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
  7. ^ a b "Cara Morey Named Head Coach at Princeton". ECACHockey.com. 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  8. ^ "New for women coaches: Revamped approaches pay early dividends" (PDF). Canadian Journal for Women in Coaching. Coaching Association of Canada. 18 (3). July 2018. ISSN 1496-1539. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  9. ^ "Exceptional Bears: League Award Winners (Rookie of the Year)". Brown Bears. n.d. Archived from the original on 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
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