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Maura Crowell

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Head Coach of Women's Ice Hockey
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Crowell joined the Big Green in May of 2024 and will serve as the head coach for the second season in 2025-26.

In her first season in Hanover, Dartmouth went 5-21-3. Despite only earning five wins, Crowell led the Big Green to many firsts in multiple years. From December 30 through January 24, Dartmouth was undefeated, posting a 4-0-3 record, its longest undefeated stretch since 2012-13. Just under a month later, the Big Green earned a 2-0 win over No. 7 St. Lawrence, their first win over a ranked opponent since 2022.

The Big Green also earned their most post season recognitions since 2011-12, having five Ivy League honorees and first-year Michaela Hesová earn two ECAC Hockey recognitions, a rookie of the year finalist as well as a unanimous selection to the All-Rookie Team.

Crowell spent the last nine seasons as the head coach at the University of Minnesota Duluth, returning the Bulldogs to national prominence with a 174-115-25 record, including coming off of three consecutive 20-plus win seasons. In her time at the helm in Duluth, Crowell has an overall NCAA Tournament record of 6-5 and five NCAA Tournament berths (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017) to go with two NCAA Frozen Four Appearances (2022, 2021).

In the 2016-17 season, Crowell was named the USCHO Division I Women's Coach of the Year, as well as the CCM/AHCA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Coach of the Year Award, and was named a CCM/AHCA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Coach of the Year Finalist in both 2022 and 2021. Crowell was also crowned the 2016-17 WCHA Coach of the Year after she guided UMD to its biggest turnaround in program history with 25-7-5 overall record and the Bulldogs first NCAA Quarterfinal game at home since 2010.

Crowell has overseen two Patty Kazmaier Top-3 Finalists (Gabbie Hughes and Lara Stalder), as well as a Patty Kazmaier Top-10 Finalist (Élizabeth Giguère).

Crowell has guided two U.S. Under-18 squads to World Championship medals, a gold medal in 2020 and a silver medal in 2019 and has two gold medals as an assistant coach in 2016 and associate head coach in 2018.

Prior to her arrival in Duluth, Crowell spent five seasons at Harvard, including serving as Harvard's associate head coach in 2014-15 after filling an interim head coaching role in 2013-14. She was a Crimson assistant coach from 2010-13. Crowell built an impressive resume over five years (2005-10) at the University of Massachusetts-Boston helm with an overall record of 73-53-4 -- making her UMass-Boston's all-time winningest coach. Crowell's collegiate coaching resume also includes a two-season stint (2003-05) as an assistant coach at Connecticut College.

A Mansfield, Mass. native, Crowell enjoyed a rewarding four-year playing career at Colgate University and helped the Raiders to three straight ECAC playoff appearances and a spot in the 2000 ECAC championship game. She earned ECAC All-Academic accolades as a senior assistant team captain in 2001-02.