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Shelley Looney receives the Adult Member of the Year Award from USA Hockey

USA Hockey Honors Shelley Looney

By Anne Johnston Fera, 06/01/16, 10:15AM EDT

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Congratulations Shelley on this recognition

 

Shelley Looney receives the Adult Member of the Year Award from USA Hockey

A U.S. Olympian and former U.S. Women’s
 National Team forward, Shelley Looney has
 served USA Hockey in multiple capacities as a
member of USA Hockey’s Adult Council since retiring as a player in 2005. In 2015, Looney was as assistant coach for the 2015 U.S. Women’s National University Team that participated at the Winter World University Games in Granada, Spain. She will lead Team USA at the event again in 2017 as head coach of the U.S. squad. Looney assists with several adult hockey events, including USA Hockey Adult National Championships and various skills clinics. In 2012, she was appointed to USA Hockey’s Board of Directors as an athlete director, a capacity she’s served in for the past five years. Currently a co-head coach of the National Women’s Hockey League’s Buffalo Beauts, Looney also is hockey director for the Buffalo Bison Hockey Association. From 2006-13, she was the girls’ and women’s hockey director for the New Jersey Colonials and also spent time as an assistant coach with USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program and at the University of Vermont. As a player, Looney scored the gold-medal clinching goal at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, helping the U.S. to the first-ever gold medal awarded in women’s hockey. She also earned silver at the 2002 Olympics, and was an eight-time member of the U.S. Women’s National Team. Collegiately, she competed at Northeastern University from 1991-94.

The Adult Member of the Year Award, presented by Labatt Blue, is awarded to an individual who has made outstanding contributions during many years of service to the ice hockey community as an adult player and/or volunteer.