 Birchard-Kessel in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Current position | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | Boston Fleet | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Biographical details | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 14, 1989 Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of New Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2011 | New Hampshire Wildcats | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2017 | Brampton CWHL | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | ICE Dream Košice | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Linköping HC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defense, forward | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Toronto Furies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Canada U18 (Assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2022 | Princeton Tigers (Assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Canada U18 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Boston University Terriers (Associate HC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023–present | Boston Fleet | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Courtney Birchard-Kessel (née Birchard; born July 14, 1989) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former player, currently serving as the head coach of the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League.
During her playing career, she was a member of the Canadian national ice hockey team and was a three-time IIHF Women's World Championship medallist. Her debut with Team Canada was made at the 2010 Four Nations Cup.
Birchard-Kessel was drafted 6th overall by the Brampton Thunder in the 2011 CWHL Draft.[1]
- ^ "News – CWHL – Canadian Women's Hockey League". Archived from the original on August 26, 2011. Retrieved July 27, 2011.