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Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard
['Lydialyle Gibson']
Harvard Magazine
| SCREENSHOT BY HARVARD MAGAZINEStone accused the University of failing to defend her and then forcing her out over false allegations.
“Harvard remained silent and became complicit in the defamation of their loyal and most decorated coach,” she said.
During 29 years at Harvard, Stone led the women’s hockey program to national prominence, winning 523 games—more than any other female coach in women’s hockey history—and training dozens of the sport’s biggest stars, including 24 all-American athletes, 15 Olympians, and six winners of the Patty Kazmaier award (which recognizes the top player in NCAA Division I women’s ice hockey).
In 2014, she became the first woman to coach a U.S. Olympic hockey team and led the United States to a silver medal.
“The Harvard women’s hockey program shaped me, gave me confidence, and taught me to really dig deep to understand myself and what made me special,” said Armstrong, a former Harvard team captain who now leads Armstrong Hockey, an organization for Canadian Indigenous youth.