I'm Katey Stone and I'm the Landry
Family Head Coach for Harvard Women's
Hockey and I'm going into my 25th season here
at Harvard 26 years as an employee of
this great University. So my earliest
memory of playing hockey was on the pond
outside our house when I was a kid had
probably started skating was I was about
three. When I was seven I wanted
desperately to play on a hockey team and
six o'clock one Saturday morning I
showed up at squirt hockey practice with
all boys and the coach said what are you
doing here
and I said don't worry I'm not gonna get
hurt my dad said I can play I've got all
the gear and that was the beginning of
my hockey career. I played ice hockey
lacrosse it at UNH. Two extremely
different programs I chose to go to UNH
because I wanted to play two sports at
the highest level I could play and back
then it was UNH and was fortunate to
be a part of a couple championship teams
and both sports and just I was really
pushed as an athlete and it it it kind
of fostered this great love of wanted to
stay in athletics. You know I was very
fortunate in 1994 to get the job here at
Harvard you know my biggest goal at that
point was to make sure that this was an
incredibly fun experience not just
challenging and competitive but I'm
making sure that our kids really enjoy
coming down to the rink. I come from a
family of coaches so my dad was a
football baseball athletic director my
brothers were coaches my sister was a
coach and so it was kind of our family
business and you know I joke that it was
either being a lawyer or being a coach
coaching gives me the opportunity to
stay competitive and you know as soon as
that puck drops my blood starts to boil
and I'm fired up so I guess it was meant
to be. The first thing that would
probably resonate with all my players is
that they're capable of more than they
think they are
and that's something that we talk about
from day one and consistently throughout
their career that they think they've
come in and and they've worked so hard
up to this point and they have no idea
what they're really capable of doing and
if we continue to challenge them on a
daily basis they they accomplish so much
more and I think at the end of the day
accomplishment is what these kids are
really proud of not praise and it's easy
to praise somebody for doing something
simple but to see them accomplish great
things both here in the rink and across
the river in the classroom to me is is
what this is all about
