Kori Cheverie from Nova Scotia gets a guest coaching role with Pittsburgh Penguins
Kori Cheverie of Nova Scotia will serve as a guest coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 2023-2024 season.
The Penguins announced the move Friday prior to their Pittsburgh development camp. Cheverie, from New Glasgow, joins the team as part of the NHL Coaches’ Association guest coaching program.
According to a press release, Cheverie, 36, will work with the Penguins coaching staff during development camp, training camp in September and periodically thereafter during the NHL season.
A former captain of the Saint Mary’s Huskies, Cheverie has had a successful run as a coach.
Since 2021, she has been an assistant coach with the women’s national team.
She helped Team Canada to the 2022 Olympic gold medal and has been an assistant coach at the last three world championships. Canada won gold in 2021 and 2022.
She became the first woman to coach a Canadian men’s national team when she served as an assistant coach at the 2022 under-18 world tournament.
She was a coach at Ryerson University, now Toronto Metropolitan University, from 2016-21, becoming the first woman to be named a full-time assistant with a men’s hockey program in the history of Canadian college sports.
Cheverie coached the Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association last season.
She worked with the Arizona Coyotes coaching staff during the team’s 2022 development camp as part of the organization’s diverse coaching program.
Earlier this year, Cheverie coached the Nova Scotia women to a silver medal at the Canada Winter Games in PEI
