CLAUDIA KEPLER has joined the Syracuse University women’s ice hockey program as an assistant coach for head coach Paul Flanagan. Kepler, a Verona, Wisconsin native, was team captain and leading goal scorer for Wisconsin in 2017-18, when the team advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four. Kepler played the first three years of her collegiate career […]
CLAUDIA KEPLER has joined the Syracuse University women’s ice hockey program as an assistant coach for head coach Paul Flanagan. Kepler, a Verona, Wisconsin native, was team captain and leading goal scorer for Wisconsin in 2017-18, when the team advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four. Kepler played the first three years of her collegiate career at Ohio State, where she led the team in goals scored in every season. She played professional hockey for HV71 in Sweden in 2018-19, where she also coached a Swedish girls youth team to learn how to coach in a different language. In 2019-20, Kepler was a sport ambassador/professional hockey player for Women’s Hockey League (WHL) champion HC Kunlun Red Stars in China, and she also played for the Russian Hockey League in the WHL. In May 2020, she created Hockey EDU, a personal hockey-coaching business. For the past 11 years, Kepler has coached hockey skill and technique development with various organizations, including Total Hockey and Lead Hockey (in Verona, Wisconsin), and at hockey camps at Wisconsin and Ohio State
