Junior Division Women’s U20 News – Staff and Coaching Selections

USA Ball Hockey Assistant Director of Hockey Operations Announces U20 Women’s Staff and Coaching Selections

BOSTON — USA Ball Hockey Assistant Director of Hockey Operations, Alessandra Glista (Winthrop, MA) announces the management and coaching staffs for the USA Women’s National U20 Team that will compete at the 2020 Women’s Juniors World Championship in Slovakia.

Dorene Sheets (Grand Forks, BC) has been named the head coach of the 2020 team Kristi Kehoe (North Andover, MA) and Paul Paradine (Ithaca, NY) as assistant coaches. Thomas Bricklemyer (Philadelphia, PA), the goaltending coach for the US Women’s National Team, will also serve as the Goalie Consultant for the junior’s program.

Sheets comes with a wealth of coaching experience across all levels in ice hockey and ball hockey. The assistant coach for the 2019 USWNT that will compete at the ISBHF World Championship, Sheets was the assistant coach for the 2017 USWNT that won the program’s first-ever silver medal. She also served as the assistant coach in 2007.

Kehoe was a four-year member of Northeastern University’s women’s ice hockey team. She currently serves as the program director and head coach of the 19U Boston Jr Shamrocks girls ice hockey program and the director of girls player development for USA Hockey’s New England District. Previously she was the head coach of the Kunlun Red Star Women’s Jr ice hockey team, assistant coach for the Chinese National U18 team and head coach of New England College women’s ice hockey team.

Paradine has served as a coach with the University of Toronto’s women’s ice hockey and has served as a coach in the Toronto Women’s Ball Hockey League, the Northwestern Toronto Women’s Ice Hockey Association and the United Women’s Ball Hockey Foundation in Massachusetts. He was a member of the USA Men’s Old Glory Hockey Club for the World Masters Ball Hockey Championships in 2018.

Bricklemyer, or Mr. B, was the goaltending coach for the 2017 silver-medal winning USWNT and the 2018 silver-medal winning master’s team. An ice hockey coach who has coached all levels, he helped guide the 2017 women’s program to a 1.85 goals-against average and .918 save percentage.

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