Our Team

Dynamic Women’s Hockey is an ice hockey program for women and girls who are looking to improve their skills. We offer pre-season and in-season clinics, and summer hockey camps. We also offer specialized clinics and camps for women and girls ice hockey teams to offer an intensive experience of team and skill building.

We are led by an experienced coaching staff that has expertise in working with women and girls of all ages and skill sets.

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KAY COWPERTHWAIT
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Head Coach and Founder of Dynamic Women’s Hockey

Kay Cowperthwait is a lifelong athlete who has played hockey for over forty years. She is a former head coach of the Amherst College women's hockey team and assistant coach for the women’s lacrosse and golf teams. During her tenure, both the golf and lacrosse teams attended the National Championships. Prior to Amherst she was the first head lacrosse coach at Stanford University, where she coached her team to a Western Women’s Lacrosse League title. Kay was a two-sport athlete at Colby College, where she captained both the hockey and lacrosse teams. In high school at the Pomfret School, she served as soccer, ice hockey, and lacrosse captain. In addition to twice being named MVP of both hockey and lacrosse teams at Colby, she was inducted into the Pomfret School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2017.

Since 2003, Kay has taught a weekly ice hockey skills clinic for girls and women along with volunteering her time as a captain and coach for her women’s hockey team. She is also a certified personal trainer, Spinning and Pilates Instructor, which has honed her eye for detail, alignment and posture. Kay continues to play hockey in western Massachusetts and has also completed triathlons of all distances, including two Ironman Triathlons. She also plays golf, pickle ball and loves to cycle. Kay’s love of working with people shines through in all of her teaching, and she looks forward to sharing her passion for ice hockey with you.

Meg Johnson
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Goalie Coach

We are looking forward to having Meg as our goalie coach this summer! Meg played their college hockey at Smith College, where they captained the team for two of their four years on the team. They received the Athletic Department Award for Hockey in their senior year at Smith and was also voted Defensive Player of the Year. They served as the President of the Independent Women’s Hockey League, which is the league that Smith competes in. They played four years of varsity hockey at Andover High School in Andover, Massachusetts. Additionally, they played for the town of Andover from ages 6-18. They taught for two years at Ms. Porter’s School, where they also coached field hockey and softball. Their favorite hockey memory was when they went 10 rounds in a shootout in high school playoff game-their team won! They also plays in net with Kay, Erin, Jess and Renee in our pickup games-it’s always good to have Meg on your team.

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Erin Bernard
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Coach

Erin has been playing ice hockey for 27 years. She grew up playing in Connecticut, where she played for both the Connecticut Polar Bears and the Southern Connecticut Stars. She then attended Trinity College, where she was a two-time captain of the varsity ice hockey program. After graduating from Trinity, Erin earned an M.S. in Sports Psychology from Springfield College. She was then hired as coach of the Smith College women’s ice hockey team, which competes in the American Collegiate Hockey League. Erin’s vast knowledge of the game of hockey and her outstanding teaching ability lead to great success at Smith in her ten seasons as head coach. Ice hockey and coaching run in Erin’s family, as her sister also played college hockey and her father has coached youth hockey for 27 years. 2023 marks Erin’s fifth time coaching at the DWH camp!

Jess Goldberg
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Coach

Jess was born to two Canadian parents and began ice skating at the age of two and a half. Luckily, she ditched the figure skates for hockey skates at age 6. Jess played ice hockey in high school for Choate Rosemary Hall and played Division III ice hockey and field hockey at Hamilton College. After playing for the Philadelphia Freeze women’s club team for eight seasons, Jess moved to western Massachusetts where she continues to play hockey. This is Jess’s second year as a DWH coach, and she has also coached youth hockey for the Ed Snyder Foundation while living in Philadelphia. She completed her Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Temple University in 2013 and specializes in orthopedics and sports physical therapy. She also enjoys running, strength training, biking to work and hanging with her cats and partner.