Kim Weiss was promoted to assistant coach of the Colorado Eagles, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche, on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old joins Seattle Kraken assistant Jessica Campbell as the only women in the NHL or AHL to be a full-time assistant coach. Campbell initially had been hired as an assistant with Coachella Valley, the Kraken’s AHL affiliate, in 2022 before joining the NHL staff in 2024.<\/p>\n
“Kim has done a great job since joining the Eagles coaching staff, and this is a well-earned promotion,” Avalanche assistant general manager and Eagles GM Kevin McDonald said. “We’re excited to see her continued contributions to the team’s success in the future.”<\/p>\n
Weiss was hired as Eagles video coach Aug. 7, 2024. Last season they had 94 points (43-21-5-3), tied for the third most in the league, and they reached the Pacific Division Final, where they lost to Abbotsford (Vancouver Canucks) in five games.<\/p>\n
This season Colorado is second in the Pacific Division with 48 points (22-8-1-3), two points behind Ontario (Los Angeles Kings), but Colorado has played three fewer games.<\/p>\n
A native of Potomac, Maryland, Weiss was a guest coach for the Avalanche in 2023-24 and has worked in various capacities at Avalanche development camp for four straight seasons.<\/p>\n
Weiss played forward at Trinity College from 2007-11, and was team captain as a junior and senior. She was a first-team All-American and NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) Player of the Year as a senior in 2010-11. As a junior, she helped lead Trinity to an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time. Weiss was a four-time All-NESCAC honoree and remains the Trinity women’s hockey team’s all-time leading scorer with 108 points (62 goals, 46 assists). <\/p>\n
Prior to joining the Avalanche, she was assistant coach for the Trinity College men’s hockey team in 2023-24, when it finished runner-up in NCAA Division III. She also has coached the Maryland Black Bears of the North American Hockey League and the Washington Pride girls’ AAA hockey program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Weiss was promoted to assistant coach of the Colorado Eagles, the American Hockey League affiliate of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-414025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}