Princeton University Athletics
Bourbeau Named Women's Hockey Head Coach at Brown
August 16, 2011 | Women's Ice Hockey
While at Princeton, Bourbeau helped the Tigers to their best-ever ECAC finish of second in 2006 and an Ivy League title that same year. She also helped Princeton to two top-three ECAC finishes and three 20-win seasons. Bourbeau was recently honored by the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) with its inaugural Women's Ice Hockey Assistant Coach Award. The award recognizes the career body of work of an assistant coach in women's ice hockey.
"I am extremely thrilled for Amy, she an excellent coach and a better person," says Kampersal. "One of the best... smart, competitive, and loyal. I am proud to be her friend and my respect for is infinite. We had a great 12 years together; I learned so much from her on and off the ice. It will be surreal to compete against family, but I wish her the best. She deserves it."
Bourbeau coached at both Williams and Middlebury before coming to Princeton. In 1998 she spent a year at Williams College, where she served as the head coach of the women's hockey team and as an assistant coach with the softball team. Bourbeau had previously served as the head softball coach and the assistant hockey and soccer coach at Middlebury.
Bourbeau went on to a standout career at Providence College, where she was a four-year letterwinner for the Friars. She was a member of the Friars' ECAC championship teams in 1992, 1993 and 1994. Bourbeau, the team's captain as a senior, was the recipient of the Providence College William T. McCue award for excellence in academics and athletics.
Bourbeau has lectured at the USA Hockey Coaches Certification Clinic and coached at several nationwide hockey camps, including USA Hockey camps.
Formerly Amy Carlson, she and François Bourbeau were married in the summer of 2004. The couple has a daughter, Anabelle, who was born in July of 2009.