Penn State has announced the hiring of Moe Bradley as an assistant coach for the women’s hockey team.
Bradley will join fellow assistants Makenna Newkirk and Jennifer Wakefield to round out Jeff Kampersal’s staff ahead of the 2025-26 season.
“We are delighted to welcome Moe to our Penn State hockey family. She is a dynamite teacher of hockey – a great communicator, a self-starter, a grinder, and most importantly, a genuine human,” said Kampersal in a news release. “Moe will be a mentor for the women in our program and will help them holistically, both on and off the ice.”
Bradley spent the past two seasons as head coach at her alma mater, UMass Boston. She led the Beacons to 21-26-5 record over the past two seasons including a 19-13-4 record in NEHC play with back-to-back fourth-place finishes in the 10-team league. Bradley was named the 2024 NEHC coach of the year following her first season as bench boss and mentored three NEHC all-conference selections, including Gianna Skrelja, who earned all-rookie team in 2023-24 and third team all-conference this past season.
“The momentum in Hockey Valley is palpable and I realize how fortunate I am to be joining this program,” Bradley said. “I genuinely look forward to what is to come.”
The Swampscott, Mass., native served as an assistant coach for the Beacons during the 2022-23 season prior to her elevation to head coach. Before her return to the harbor campus, Bradley had coaching stops at Stevenson (2015-17), Suffolk (2017-18) and Boston College, where she served as goaltending coach from 2018 to 2022.
While at BC, she helped guide the Eagles to a pair of NCAA tournament appearances while developing one of the most decorated goaltenders in Boston College history in Abigail Levy. Levy was a two-time national goaltender of the year award semifinalist while graduating as the program leader for save percentage at .940, including a single-season BC record .947 during her final season.
Bradley began her collegiate career at New Hampshire before transferring to UMass Boston following her sophomore season. In her two seasons as a Beacon, Bradley appeared in 30 games with 28 starts posting an 11-11-7 record with three shutouts to go along with a .915 save percentage and a 2.23 goals-against average.
Her career GAA is good for third in school history and includes a 1.58 goals-against average during the 2013-14 campaign, a mark good for second all-time, while her save percentage ranks eighth in the Beacon record books and includes a .938 during her junior campaign, the third-best all-time.
“I am very excited to be joining the staff at Penn State next season, with many thanks to Coach Kampersal for extending this opportunity,” said Bradley. “The momentum in Hockey Valley is palpable and I realize how fortunate I am to be joining this program.”
