 No coach in NCAA women's hockey history has had more success in the NCAA Frozen Four than UMD head coach Shannon Miller, having now completed her ninth season behind the Bulldog bench after winning a fourth NCAA title with UMD in 2008.
Miller has an NCAA-best nine Frozen Four wins to accompany her NCAA-record four national titles. Her coaching portfolio also boasts an NCAA-high of eleven tournament wins.
As the only head coach UMD has ever employed, Miller has amassed an impressive overall record of 234-61-25 and has led the Bulldogs to seven NCAA playoff appearances and four NCAA Championship titles, including three straight (2001, 2002 and 2003). She has led UMD into five NCAA Frozen Four berths, including the last two NCAA Championship games in both 2007 and 2008. No other hockey program in the country has won four titles, let alone three consecutive NCAA titles.
For her efforts, Miller was named the 2000 and 2003 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Coach of the Year and the 2003 American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) Women’s Division I Coach of the Year. Along with the incredible NCAA runs, her Bulldogs have captured three WCHA regular season titles (2008, 2003, 2000) and four WCHA playoff titles (2008, 2003, 2001, 2000).
During Miller’s time at the Bulldog helm, UMD has produced nine first-team All-Americans, 12 Patty Kazmaier Award Finalists, two WCHA Players of the Year, three WCHA Student-Athletes of the year and one CoSIDA Academic All-American.
Not only has Miller enjoyed incredible success with the Bulldogs, but she also had tremendous success coaching on the international stage with Team Canada.
Miller coached Canada to a sliver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and was the first and only female head coach of any Olympic hockey team, as well as the youngest. She also coached Canada to three consecutive gold medals at the Women’s World Ice Hockey Championships (1992, 1994 and 1997) and to gold medal finishes at both the 1995 and 1996 Pacific Rim Championships as well as the Three Nations Cup Tournament istant with the Alberta Women’s Hockey Team (18 and under) in 1989 and two years later was part of a club, which captured a gold medal in the first-ever hockey competition for women in the Canada Winter Games.
Before leaving Canada, Miller was given the prestigious Canadian Advancement of Women in Sport Award for all her successes for women’s hockey in Canada.
In 1985, Miller graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and received her Masters of Education degree from UMD in 2005.
Prior to being hired by the Olympic Oval in Calgary to build the first-ever international high performance-training program for women’s hockey, Miller was a police officer in Calgary from 1988-1996.
Apart from her duties at UMD, Miller also operates hockey schools across North America and is a professional speaker at local, national and international events.
Caroline Ouellette will begin her second season as an assistant coach for the Bulldogs after having a remarkable playing career at UMD.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist and All-American selection collected 92 goals and 137 assists for 229 points in just 97 games in three seasons as a Bulldog. As a senior in 2004-05, Ouellete captained the Bulldogs to a 26-6-2 overall record and an NCAA quarterfinal playoff berth and received her second NCAA All-American recognition.
Ouellette was also chosen as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s Student-Athlete of the Year. She was also a repeat finalist for the prestigious Patty Kazmaier Award as the most outstanding player in women’s college hockey.
A three-time All-WCHA selection (first team in 2005-05 and 2002-03, second team in 2003-04) and a member of the WCHA’s All-Rookie Team in 2002-03, Ouellette reigned as the NCAA’s top point (2.38 per outing) and assist (1.47 apg) as a junior and, one year earlier, landed the Most Valuable Player Award at the NCAA Frozen Four after host UMD won its third straight national title.
As a rookie in 2002-03, Ouellette contributed to UMD’s title run after she climbed to the top of the Bulldogs scoring chart, racking up a program record 73 points (31-42=73) for a first-year player. Ouellette holds three of UMD’s top five season slots for points, as well as for assists.
Ouellette has had tremendous success on the international level as well, leading Canada to gold medal finishes at both the 2002 and 2006 Olympics, ranking fourth in goal scoring (5) and scoring (5-4=9) in Turin in 2006. She is a four-time International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships gold medalist (1999, 2001, 2004, 2007) and brought home a silver in 2005.
A 2005 CoSIDA third team Academic All-American, Ouellette graduated from UMD in May 2005 with bachelor degrees in criminology and women’s studies.
One of the most recognized names in women's college hockey has join forces with one of the most recognized programs in women's college hockey.
Julie Chu, who closed out her prosperous playing career at Harvard University last season, begins her first season behind the Bulldog bench.
A three-time All-American selection and two-time Olympic medalist, Chu put an exclamation point on her farewell season with the Crimson by being bestowed with the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award as the nation’s top collegiate women’s ice hockey player. The Fairfield, Conn., native paced the NCAA in scoring in 2006-07 with a 2.20 points per game average (18 goals and an nation-high 48 assists in just 30 outings) en route to landing USA Hockey Player of the Year and Ivy League Co-Player of the Year honors. Chu wound up in the No. 3 spot on Harvard’s career scoring chart with 88 goals and a school-record 196 assists for 284 points in 129 games.
Chu, who was selected Harvard’s top senior female athlete for 2006-07, served as a Crimson team co-captain as both a junior and senior. She landed a spot on the All-Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association Hockey League’s first team on three occasions, including in 2002-03 when she received the ECAC’s and Ivy League’s Rookie of the Year awards. That was the same year Chu and her Crimson teammates fell 4-3 in double overtime to UMD in the Frozen Four title game at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center.
On the international hockey stage, Chu has been a fixture with Team USA since 2000. She helped the U.S. capture a silver medal at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and a bronze four years later in Torino, Italy. She was also a member of the U.S. National Team that won gold in the 2005 IIHF World Championships, and a silver during the 2004 and 2001 seasons. This past April (2007), Chu captained the Red, White and Blue to a runner-up finish at the IIHF Women’s World Championships in Winnipeg, Canada.
A three-time ECAC and Ivy League All-Academic Team honoree, Chu graduated from Harvard this past May with a B.A. degree in psychology in criminology and women’s studies.
Rob Stauber is entering his fourth season as the goaltending coach for the Bulldogs during the 2007-2008 season.
Stauber also currently volunteers as the University of Minnesota men’s hockey goalie coach. He has been with the Gophers for the past seven seasons.
The first netminder to earn a Hobey Baker Award (1988), Stauber was an All-America First Team and All-WCHA selection while playing for Minnesota in the late 1980’s. He is still the Gopher’s career leader in saves percentage (.906), and ranks second in career wins (73), most games played (98) and minutes played (5,717).
A native of Duluth, Minn., Stauber was a two- time WCHA champion and in 1993 was a member of the Stanley Cup Los Angles Kings organization.
He currently oversees the Stauber-Ostby Goalie Academy and is the creator of the “Staubar,” the first piece of training equipment designed specifically for goaltenders.
Stauber has two children, Ruby and Jaxson, and currently resides in Plymouth, Minn
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