179 _ Athlete Empowerment with Sarah Hughson

Coach Hughson is a Colorado born but
Connecticut raised hockey player who played competitive hockey with the CT
Polar Bears program, and spent four years at the Frederick Gunn school where
she was a 3 sport athlete, 2 year 2 sport captain, and 2x NEPSAC Girls ice
hockey champion.

She then played 4 years of Ice Hockey and Lacrosse at Elmira College where she was
a ACHA/CCM First Team All-American, Elmira College Female Athlete of the Year,
UCHC Player of the Year, Elmira Women's Lacrosse record breaker and Google
Cloud Academic American her senior year in 2018.

She then signed to play for the CT Whale in the former NWHL/PHF for a couple seasons, winning the Foundation Award in her first season. She has coached
girls hockey of all ages for the past 6 years including various levels at
Greenwich Skating Club and the high school varsity team at Choate Rosemary Hall.

She
currently coaches varsity at Greenwich Country Day School, is the director of
hockey for the Stateline Hawks girls hockey program, and coaches their 16uAA
and 14uA teams.  She is a current 3x member of the USA National Ball
Hockey Team who has competed in the ISBHF World Championships in 2019 Slovakia,
2021 Montreal, and upcoming 2024 Switzerland tournaments. In Montreal she led
the team with points and etched her name on the tournament All-Star team.

Sarah
has a passion for performance and athlete mental health and has a current
Masters degree in Sport Psychology and is currently pursuing another Masters in
Clinical Mental Health Counseling.  On top of that she is a graphic
designer and videographer and can be found almost always at the hockey rink
either coaching, filming, or cheering on her athletes. 

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