Laurie Baker (ice hockey player)

Laurie Baker
Date of birth	November 6, 1976
place of birth	Concord , Massachusetts , USA
size	170 cm
Weight	61 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1995-1997	Providence College
1997-2002	USA hockey

Laurie Baker , gsch. Baker-Mutch , (born November 6, 1976 in Concord , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player and coach . Baker was from 1997 to 2002 member of the women's national ice hockey team of the United States and was with this Olympic champion at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano .

Career

Baker moved to Providence College in the summer of 1995 after high school . There she played for the next two years - in addition to her studies - for the university team in the ECAC hockey . In her very first year, the striker was named Rookie of the Year after scoring 32 goals. In her second year, she let another 43 goals follow and also posted 28 assists in just 30 games.

The attacker then left college in the summer of 1997 without a degree and was signed by the US ice hockey association USA Hockey after she had previously participated in the 1997 World Cup and won the silver medal there with the women's national ice hockey team of the United States . With the team, Baker prepared specifically for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan . At the women's ice hockey tournament, which was held for the first time as part of the Winter Games, she and the team won the gold medal. As a result, Baker denied the 2000 World Cup , where she won another World Cup silver medal. After a two-year absence from the US team, she received another place in the Olympic squad for the 2002 Winter Olympics in her home town of Salt Lake City and was able to win silver again. She then ended her active career.

Baker then devoted himself to her family and her coaching education. Between 2008 and 2013 she was the head coach of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School high school team in Cambridge , Massachusetts . In the 2013/14 season she worked as an assistant trainer at the Lawrence Academy in Groton , which she had already attended as a student between 1993 and 1995.

Achievements and Awards

• 1997 silver medal at the world championship
• 1998 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 2000 silver medal at the world championship
• 2002 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Web links

• Laurie Baker at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Laurie Baker in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )