Lisa Haley (née Jordan, previously MacDonald; born 28 June 1973) is a Canadian ice hockey coach, currently serving as head coach of the Ryerson Rams women's ice hockey team and the Hungarian women's national team.[1] She is an assistant coach for the Toronto Six of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL).[2] In 2021, she was also named the senior vice president of hockey operations for the NWHL.[3]
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | TMU Bold Hungarian women's national team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 28 June 1973 Westville, Nova Scotia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1997–2011 | Saint Mary's Huskies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–06 | Canadian national U22 team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–08 | Canadian national team (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–10 | Canadian national U18 team (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2014 | Canadian national team (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011– | Ryerson Rams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–16 | Canadian national U18 team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Toronto Six (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020– | Hungarian national team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Originally from Westville, Nova Scotia in Pictou County, among her achievements as a coach, she was part of the coaching staff for the Canadian national women's team that won the gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. During the 2015–16 season, she served as the head coach for the Canada women's national under-18 ice hockey team,[4] capturing a silver medal at the 2016 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship. Prior to the appointment, she captured gold as an assistant coach with Canada's National Women's Development Team at the 2015 Nations Cup.[5]
Coaching career
editInternational
editWith Canada's national women's ice hockey team, she has served as an assistant coach in 2007, winning gold at the Four Nations Cup, along with stints in 2008 and from 2011–2014.[6] Haley has also worked with Canada's Under-18 national women's team and its Under-22/Development Program. Her first assignment with Hockey Canada involved the U22/Development Team. Serving as the head coach during the 2005–06 season, she led the team to a gold medal in the Air Canada Cup (now known as the Nations Cup). With the U18 team, she served as an assistant coach for Canada's gold medal entry at the 2010 IIHF U18 Worlds, the first gold in the history of the Canadian U18 program. She would return to the program in 2016 as the head coach, which included Gina Kingsbury on her coaching staff.
In July 2016, Haley was one of 26 Canadians (players, instructors and coaches) that participated at the 2016 IIHF High Performance Women's Hockey Camp in Vierumäki, Finland.[7] Serving as the head coach of Team White, Mackenna Parker was the only Canadian-born player on the roster. Four-time Winter Games participant Jenny Potter served as the athlete ambassador while Emelie Berggren and Cindy Debuquet were among members of Haley's coaching staff.[8]
CIS
editIn 1997, Haley was appointed as the head coach at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia. During her time as coach, Haley recorded 118 wins, compared to 52 losses and 11 ties, posting a .682 winning percentage. The Huskies made eight appearances in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) finals with Haley as head coach, winning on four occasions (1998, 2003, 2004 and 2010). Of note, Haley and the Huskies qualified four times for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national championship tournament. Honored as the CIS coach of the year in 2003, she would also capture the AUS coach of the year award twice.
Currently the head coach of the Ryerson Rams women ice hockey program, which competes in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, she was appointed to the position on April 1, 2011.[9][10] Under Haley's tutelage, the Rams would capture their first Ontario University Athletics (OUA) conference victory on October 15, 2011, in a 1-0 final against the Waterloo Warriors.[11] The first head coach in program history, she has held the position in every season since the inaugural puck drop, except in 2013–14, when she was in a full-time capacity with the Canadian national women's team competing at the Sochi Winter Games. During that season, Pierre Alain, who has also served in coaching capacities with Hockey Canada, served as the Rams head coach. Returning to the Rams in 2014 (Alain would become head coach with the Carleton Ravens), Haley would lead the club to its first postseason appearance in the spring of 2015.
NWHL
editFor the 2020-21 season, Haley served on Digit Murphy's coaching staff for the Toronto Six, an expansion team of the NWHL. Following the Isobel Cup Finals, Haley was appointed as the league's Vice-President of Hockey Operations.[12]
Awards and honors
edit- Canadian Interuniversity Sport Coach of the Year – 2003
- Atlantic University Sport Coach of the Year – 2002, 2003
Source: [13]
References
edit- ^ Spencer, Donna (12 November 2020). "Ryerson's Lisa Haley leads hockey hopes of Hungarian women". CBC Sports. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ Joseph, Marsha (3 December 2020). "Toronto Six name Lisa Haley as assistant coach for inaugural season". The Leafs Nation. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ Krotz, Paul (30 March 2021). "Lisa Haley Appointed NWHL Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations". NWHL.zone. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ Podnieks, Andrew (7 January 2016). "New Coach Lisa Haley". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Chasing a dream: Former Huskies coach Lisa Haley focused on leading Team Canada to Olympic gold". metronews.ca. 18 December 2013. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Coaching staffs named for Canada's National Women's Under-18 Team and Canada's National Women's Development Team". Hockey Canada. 19 June 2015. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ "Hockey Canada sends eight under-18 women to IIHF High Performance Camp in Vierumäki, Finland 18 staff among Canadian contingent at camp". Hockey Canada. 7 July 2016. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "2016 IIHF High Performance Camp, Verumaki, Finland: Team White" (PDF). IIHF. n.d. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Lisa Haley Head Coach (Profile)". Ryerson Rams. n.d. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Staff Directory: Lisa Haley - Head Coach". Ryerson University Athletics. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ "Rams shutout Warriors, record first OUA win". Ryerson Rams. 15 October 2011. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press (30 March 2021). "Canada's Lisa Haley named NWHL's senior vice-president of hockey operations". torontostar.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ "Women's Ice Hockey Coaching Records". Saint Mary's University Department of Athletics & Recreation. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2021.