Courtney Kennedy (born March 29, 1979) is an American

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

player. She won a silver medal at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

and a bronze medal at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...

. Kennedy was born in

Woburn, Massachusetts Woburn ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,876 at the 2020 census. Woburn is located north of Boston. Woburn uses Massachusetts' mayor-council form of government, in which an elected mayor is ...

. She went to elementary school in the Reeves Elementary School. She played college hockey at

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before transferring to the

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along with her sister Shannon. In 2008 Kennedy was inducted into University of Minnesota M Club Hall of Fame. She is the former head coach of

Buckingham Browne & Nichols Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, often referred to as BB&N, is an independent co-educational day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, educating students from pre-kindergarten (called Beginners) through twelfth grade. BB&N is regularly ranked am ...

girls' varsity ice hockey team. She is the current assistant head coach of Boston College Eagles women's ice hockey team. Kennedy is on the executive board of

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. She is assistant director of the Kennedy School of Hockey.

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External links

Courtney Kennedy's U.S. Olympic Team bio
1979 births American women's ice hockey players Boston College Eagles women's ice hockey coaches Buckingham Browne & Nichols School alumni Colby College alumni Ice hockey coaches from Massachusetts Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics Living people Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey players Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for the United States in ice hockey People from Woburn, Massachusetts Ice hockey players from Massachusetts {{US-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub