CT Futures Cup
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Gretchen Silverman
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Gretchen Silverman is entering her seventh year as the head coach of the Taft girls’ varsity hockey team. Over the past few years she has worked at various US National Development Camps and Festivals, including the U-15 camp in St. Cloud, MN, the New England District camp and the Rocky Mountain/Pacific District camp. Gretchen has served as a motivational speaker for the 2018 Women’s Olympic Team, and the US U-18 National Team. She has coached youth hockey at all levels, and is currently USA Hockey level 4 certified. In her playing days, Gretchen led Dartmouth College as a senior captain, and remains the program’s all-time leading scorer with 189 goals and 123 assists. She helped team USA capture its first Olympic Gold Medal in 1998.
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Ashley Bairos
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Ashley Bairos currently serves as the head girls’ varsity hockey coach at Choate. She is a 2010 graduate of Middlebury College, after which she played several years in the SDHL (Sweden). Upon returning to the United States, Ashley began her coaching career with specific attention to skating technique and edge work. Working with
athletes of all ages, Ashley focuses on improving one’s technical skill in all areas of his or her game. Off the ice, she has coached physical performance for several years both during the school year and in the summers. |
Jamie Goldsmith
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Jamie Goldsmith currently serves as the head girls’ varsity hockey coach at The Gunnery. Jamie graduated from the National Sports Academy in 2009 as the Salutatorian. She went on to play at St. Lawrence University, winning the 2012 ECAC Championship, and advancing to the NCAA Tournament. She served as team captain in 2013. Jamie has played for the CT Whale of the NWHL from 2017-2019. After graduating from SLU, Jamie served as assistant coach for Plymouth State University, and in the Northern Cyclones Organization from 2014-2017, before joining The Gunnery.
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Sarah Hughson
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Sarah Hughson graduated from Elmira College in 2018, where she played both hockey and lacrosse. With the hockey team she competed in the NCAA Championship tournament each year. During her senior year she was recognized as an ACHA/CCM First team All-American, the UCHC Player of the year and tournament MVP, and Elmira College's Female Athlete of the Year. She graduated from the Gunnery in 2015. Last year she played for the CT Whale in the NWHL and was awarded the Foundation Award. Hughson is currently the assistant coach for the girls’ varsity hockey and lacrosse teams at Choate.
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Mackenzie Lancaster
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Mackenzie Lancaster has spent the past four years playing for Quinnipiac Women’s Ice Hockey Team, and served as the assistant captain in her senior season. Prior to Quinnipiac, she played for the Berkshire School. She is currently working with the CT Polar Bears and is pursuing a coaching career in women’s collegiate hockey.
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Danielle Marmer
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Danielle Marmer is a native of Dorset, Vermont and spent the last two years as the assistant women’s ice hockey coach at Connecticut College. During this time the Camels recorded a program high of 15 wins and a ranking of second place in the NESCAC. Prior to starting her coaching career at Connecticut College, Marmer graduated with honors from Quinnipiac University where she was a member of the women’s ice hockey team during its most successful run in program history between 2013 and 2017. The Bobcats made their first two NCAA Tournament appearances, won the first-ever ECAC Hockey regular season and tournament titles in school history, and finished each season nationally ranked. Before college Marmer attended The Loomis Chaffee School.
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Lisa Marshall
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Lisa Marshall joined Berkshire after leading Vermont Academy to the 2018 New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Division II Championship. Prior to coaching the Wildcats, Coach Marshall served as an assistant coach at Rochester Institute of Technology and Penn State University, where she was responsible for all recruiting efforts, practice planning, and implementation. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Elmira College, Ms. Marshall was named to the College Hockey America Academic All-Star Team, the
ECAC West All-Academic Team and helped Elmira win a National Championship in 2013. |
Jodi McKenna
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A graduate of Brown University, Jodi McKenna enters her 11th season at the helm of the Wesleyan women’s ice hockey program for the 2018-19 campaign. Before coming to Wesleyan, McKenna spent nine years as an assistant coach at St. Lawrence University. A certified strength and conditioning coach, McKenna developed and monitored the year-round training program at St. Lawrence. During the offseason, she was active as a USA Hockey coach, working with the 18-19 Junior Olympic Festival and the 15-16 Festival in 2004, in addition to the Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic and Rocky Mountain District Player Development programs. As an assistant coach, McKenna helped Team USA land a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. In April 2009, she was on board as an assistant coach when Team USA won a gold medal during the International Ice Hockey
Federation World Women's Championship in Hameenlinna, Finland. McKenna also directed the U18 squad to a gold medal at the World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, in January 2011. Her most recent activity with the National Team came in August 2014, as she was on the coaching staff for the National Festival in Lake Placid once again, helping to select the members of the U18 and U22 squads for competition against Canada. |
Sue Merz
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As a member of the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team from 1990-2002, Sue Merz was a defensemen on the first U.S. Olympic Women’s Hockey Team. Winning Olympic Gold (Nagano ’98) and Silver (Salt Lake City ’02) and six Silver World Championships, Sue has been one of the pioneers that elevated women’s hockey globally. Along with her gold medal teammates, she was inducted into the USA Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009. Sue played hockey at the University of New Hampshire (’90-’94) winning a national championship in 1991 and was a member of the Connecticut Polar Bears Girls’ Midget National Championship team the previous year. Today, Sue is a successful territory sales manager in the surgical device space but is never too far from a youth hockey practice or pickup pond hockey game. Her unwavering drive for business success and dedication to girl’s athletics has brought her many local and national “Hall of Fame” accolades.
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Abby Ostrom
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Abby Ostrom begins her fourth season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Trinity College women’s ice hockey team in 2018-19. A 2014 graduate of Trinity with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies and a two-sport star on the ice and on the softball diamond, Ostrom was the director of men’s ice hockey operations and an assistant softball coach at Skidmore College during the 2014-15 campaign. She was a coaching intern with the USA Hockey National Development Camp in Minnesota for the U-15 and U-18 squads in the summers of 2015 and 2016, before working as skills coach for the U-18 group at the camp
last summer. Ostrom totaled 21 goals and 17 assists in 80 games and is tied for second in the Trinity record book for game-winning goals in a single season. She helped the Bantams qualify for the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Women's Ice Hockey Championship Tournament each winter. Ostrom was also an All-New England and a three-time all-league softball player for the Bantams, and captain of that squad in her senior spring. |
Katelyn Parker
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Katelyn Parker is entering her second season with the UConn women’s ice hockey program as an assistant coach. Prior to this she was an assistant coach at Brown University for two years. In her first season with the Bears (2016-17), the team swept Dartmouth for the first time in a regular season since 1999-00. Brown also posted its first win against Harvard since the 2001-02 season which was also its first victory on the road against the Crimson since the 1997- 98 season. Before Brown, Parker was a member of the Colgate women’s hockey team, where she served as the team’s captain for two seasons. As a forward, she played in 141 games over her career, which is the most in program history. With the Raiders, Parker was a four-time recipient
of the Sportsmanship Award, given to person that represents the true meaning of “team” (voted by teammates and coaches). Parker graduated from Colgate in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Environmental Studies and Geography. |
Katherine Pauletti
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Katherine Pauletti is entering her fourth season with the Pioneers as Assistant Coach. Pauletti's primary duties include assisting in all areas of the program, specifically within recruiting, video breakdown and film sessions, planning daily practices and special teams. Originally from Minnesota and a former player for Concordia University Wisconsin, Pauletti was captain of both CUW varsity hockey and lacrosse teams. She was selected to the All-Conference Team three times and four to the NCHA All-Academic Team. Pauletti earned a Bachelor of Science in Marketing with a minor in Business Communication at Concordia in 2016. In addition to coaching, she has recently graduated with her Masters of Business Administration from SHU.
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Kristin Steele
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Kristin Steele enters her 18th season as the head women’s ice hockey coach. Under her direction, the Camels have developed into a perennial contender in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and have been ranked among the top 10 programs in the country. In 2015-16, the Camels set a school record by winning 15 games and matched the feat by registering 15 victories over the next two campaigns with Steele on the sidelines. The 2017-18 squad most recently finished with a 15-6-5 ledger and a school-record .673 winning percentage while advancing to the semifinal round of the NESCAC Tournament for the third straight season and fifth time over the last six years.
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Christa Talbot Syfu
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Christa Talbot Syfu is in her sixteenth year as head coach for the Wildcats. Talbot Syfu played for Williston prior to attending Providence College, where she was the assistant captain of the team that won the ECAC Championship in 2002. Talbot Syfu coached at Hamilton College for a year before returning to Williston. Talbot Syfu has worked at a number of camps including: Providence College Hockey Camp, Dartmouth Hockey Camp, and a number of USA hockey camps in east and west coast as well as National Camp in 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017. Talbot Syfu also coaches for the Selects program during the summer.
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Elizabeth Wulf
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After graduating from Middlebury College in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience, Elizabeth Wulf joined Wesleyan as an assistant coach. She was a four-year member of the women’s ice hockey team at Middlebury and helped lead her team to three-consecutive NESCAC titles in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Her team also qualified for the NCAA Quarterfinals all four years, including a trip to the Final Four in 2016. A forward, Wulf played in every game during her four years at Middlebury, scoring 27 goals and accumulating 37 assists for a total of 64 points in 114 games. She was third on the team in points her sophomore season (20). Wulf was a three-time member of the NESCAC All-Academic team and was named an ACHA All-American Scholar her junior and senior years. Beyond the ice and classroom, Wulf was a three-year member and the co-head of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) her senior year. Prior to Middlebury, the Larchmont, N.Y. native went to The Hotchkiss School, where she played ice hockey, soccer, and lacrosse and was captain of the ice hockey and soccer teams her senior year. She also played club hockey for the Mid-Fairfield CT Stars.
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Mya Berretta
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Mya Berretta is from West Haven, CT and attends Hamilton College. Before Hamilton, Mya attended West Haven High School and set a state record for tallying 60 goals during her freshman season. Mya was also selected for the USA Hockey New England Festival for each year of eligibility. She graduated from The Gunnery in 2017 then pursued a post- graduate year at Taft. Now a sophomore in college, she majors in neuroscience and has an active role as a forward on the Hamilton hockey team, which made it to the semi-final round of the NESCAC playoffs for the 2018-2019 season.
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Lexi Cafiero
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Lexi Cafiero is from Guilford, Connecticut, and is a sophomore at Colby College where she studies biology and environmental science. She plays forward on the Colby women's hockey team after playing for four years at the Taft School. Growing up, Lexi played for the Connecticut Polar Bears and the Connecticut Junior Eagles, and was a national and regional camp participant.
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Meaghan Francis
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Meaghan Francis is from Woodbridge, CT and is a sophomore, majoring in political science at Endicott. She was selected as the two-time MVP at Amity Regional High School and then went on to graduate from Wyoming Seminary School, serving as team captain her senior year. She attended the Canterbury School for a post graduate year, before heading off to Endicott.
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Catherine Lawrence
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Catherine Lawrence is from Guilford, CT and is a sophomore at Conn College. She graduated from The Gunnery in 2018 where she played soccer, hockey and lacrosse. Currently she’s a two-sport athlete, playing hockey and lacrosse in college.
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Madie Leidt
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Madie Leidt is from Killingworth, CT and a rising junior at Midd. Madie spent four years at Taft leading their girls’ ice hockey team as a captain both her junior and senior years, as well as in scoring production. She went on to Loomis Chaffee for a post graduate year, and helped take the team to the NEPSAC semi-finals. After starting her Middlebury career in the 2017-2018 season, Madie was named 2018 NESCAC Rookie of the year and named to the All-NESCAC First team this past winter. As a former USA hockey participant, Madie is now involved as a coach/counselor in a number of USA Hockey camps including the New England Development Camp, u14 Eastern Select Camp, and the u15 National Camp.
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Natalie Witkowski
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Natalie Witkowski is from Cheshire CT and played hockey and lacrosse at the Taft School where she was captain of both teams her senior year. Natalie also participated in the New England festival for 4 years. She is now continuing her hockey and academic career at Conn College where she is studying biology.
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Mackenzie Bruch
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Mackenzie Bruch served as a Graduate Assistant Coach for the Bemidji State University Women’s Team, a NCAA Division 1 team in the WCHA. She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. Her coaching accolades are impressive as well. She has coached the USA Hockey Girl’s National 15 Camp as well as the Minnesota High Performance 15 Camp. She was a stand-out goaltender at Bemidji State University and at Culver Academy prior to her collegiate days. She currently is a goalie instructor for ProCrease.
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Aidan Cain
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Aidan Cain is a USA Hockey certified and five-year coach with ProCrease Goaltending. He currently attends Sacred Heart and plays in the ACHA. Aidan attended Portsmouth Abbey, where he was a Prep School All-League selection.
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