Princeton University Athletics
Women's Ice Hockey
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- bourbeau@princeton.edu
- Phone:
- (609) 258-1557
Amy Bourbeau has spent 14 seasons as an assistant coach for the Tigers and 16 in the collegiate coaching ranks. Bourbeau was recently honored by the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) with its Women's Ice Hockey Assistant Coach Award. The award recognizes the career body of work of an assistant coach in women's ice hockey.
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 previously served as the head softball coach and the assistant hockey and soccer coach at Middlebury.
A four-year letterwinner at Providence, Bourbeau was a member of the Friars’ ECAC championship teams in 1992, 1993 and 1994. Bourbeau, the team’s captain, 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 married François Bourbeau in the summer of 2004. The couple has a daughter Anabelle that was born in July of 2009.
