Katey Stone (born April 17, 1966) is a retired Division I women's ice hockey coach. Stone accumulated 494 victories and has coached 25 seasons as a head coach with the Harvard Crimson. Stone was the third coach in women's college hockey history to win 300 games. In 2023, reporting from the Boston Globe and The Athletic accused Stone of hazing and abuse, prompting Harvard to open an external investigation. In June 2023, Stone announced her retirement.
Stone attended the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut and graduated in the class of 1984. Stone was a captain and four-year letter winner in hockey for the New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey program. Stone was part of two ECAC championships in 1986 and 1987. In addition to ice hockey, Stone was an accomplished lacrosse player at New Hampshire and was part of the team that won the 1985 NCAA title. She graduated in 1989 with a degree in physical education. Before Harvard, Stone coached at Tabor Academy, Northfield Mount Hermon School and Phillips Exeter Academy.
During her tenure, Stone accumulated a record of 523âÂÂ284âÂÂ58. Before the 1994âÂÂ95 season, Stone replaced John Dooley as the Crimson head coach. In her first year, Stone put together a record of 12âÂÂ11âÂÂ2. Over the next three seasons, the Crimson would finish below .500. In 1998âÂÂ99, the Crimson would go from 14âÂÂ16âÂÂ0 to 33âÂÂ1âÂÂ0. Under Stone, the club won the national championship in 1998âÂÂ99. During her 11th season at Harvard (2004âÂÂ05), Stone coached the Crimson to a second consecutive ECAC title. In the 2004 part of the campaign, the Crimson had a 7âÂÂ6âÂÂ1 start. After January 1, Stone led the team to an 18âÂÂ0âÂÂ2 finish. The Crimson qualified for their third straight Frozen Four appearance despite losing graduating Patty Kazmaier Award winners from the past two seasons.
In 2013âÂÂ2014, Stone stepped away from the bench at Harvard to be head coach for the US Olympic women's ice hockey team. She was the first woman to be named head coach for any US Hockey team at the Olympics. The US squad took home the silver medal at the Sochi Olympics, losing in the championship game to Team Canada.
With Stone back behind the bench, the 2014âÂÂ2015 Crimson women's ice hockey team had a highly successful season, winning the Beanpot, the Ivy League championship, and finishing atop the standings in the ECAC at the close of the season. They went on to win the ECAC tournament, and advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four, where they lost to the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the Championship game, and finished as national runners-up.
On February 26, 2010, the Crimson defeated the Princeton Tigers women's ice hockey program by a 5âÂÂ1 score. With the win, Katey Stone became women's college hockey's all-time winningest coach, surpassing former Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey head coach Laura Halldorson. At the end of the 2019âÂÂ2020, she was ranked fourth in number of wins for college women's hockey coaches.
On June 6, 2023, Stone announced her retirement.
Stone is a member of the NCAA Championship committee and a former president of the American Women's Hockey Coaches Association.
Stone coached nine players who have competed in ice hockey at the Winter Olympic Games. In addition, six of the first 12 winners of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award (Jennifer Botterill twice, Julie Chu, A.J. Mleczko, Angela Ruggiero and Sarah Vaillancourt) were players under Stone's tutelage. Players for the Crimson have earned All-America honors a total of 21 times since the 1998âÂÂ99 season. These All-Americans include the first players to be four-time first-team All-Americans: Jennifer Botterill and Angela Ruggiero. Stone has also coached eight ECAC Players of the Year, nine Ivy League Players of the Year, four ECAC Rookies of the Year, and five Ivy League Rookies of the Year.
(Until end of 2010 season)
Stone coached the 1996 U.S. National Team. Ten years later, she was the head coach of the U.S. Women's Under-22 Team. Stone was the head coach of the gold-medal winning U.S. Women's Under-18 National Team at the World Championships in January 2008. In November 2008, she led the US National Team to the gold medal at the Four Nations Cup. Stone led Team USA's National Team to a gold medal in the 2013 World Championships and was the head coach of Team USA in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Olympic Games. Team USA earned the silver medal, falling to Team Canada in the gold medal game. Team USA held a 2âÂÂ0 lead late in the game, before surrendering two goals in the final four minutes of regulation time. Team Canada scored the gold medal winning goal in the ninth minute of overtime.
In January 2023 the Boston Globe published a report about hazing and abuse in Stone's program, followed up by a report in March in the Athletic, accusing Stone of running âÂÂa mental-health Hunger Games.â Following these reports, Harvard hired law firm Jenner & Block to conduct an investigation of the university's womenâÂÂs ice hockey program.