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Head coach Nadine Muzerall speaks to the media at the 2024 Frozen Four in Durham, New Hampshire. Credit: Courtesy of Ohio State Athletics<\/p>\n
Seven Frozen Four appearances, two national championships and nearly 11 years at the core of one of the country\u2019s top-ranked women\u2019s ice hockey programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, Ohio State women\u2019s ice hockey head coach Nadine Muzerall gets to add another milestone to her coaching career\u2014this time with her home country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Muzerall has been named Hockey Canada\u2019s National Women\u2019s Under-18 Team head coach for 2026-27.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An Ontario native, Muzerall will lead her homeland in the 2027 International Ice Hockey Federation U18 Women\u2019s World Championship on Jan. 8-16, 2027 in Ostrava, Czechia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The five-time Western College Hockey Association\u2019s Coach of the Year worked on Hockey Canada\u2019s staff in 2017 with the U22 team for the Nations Cup, and in 2016 for the U18 Rivalry Series and National Women\u2019s Development Team.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to Muzerall\u2019s tenure at Ohio State, the Buckeyes had winning records in six of the program\u2019s 17 seasons. As Muzerall enters her 11th year as Ohio State\u2019s head coach, she has a record of 260-86-22 for a career win percentage of .736.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Muzerall has also coached 28 Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League draft picks, including six that were selected in the 2026 PWHL draft in June.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In March, Muzerall signed a five-year contract extension with Ohio State, which will keep her under contract with the Buckeyes through the 2033-34 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Nadine Muzerall speaks to the media at the 2024 Frozen Four in Durham, New Hampshire. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[69643,13080,5,69644,69645,69646,69647,69651,69648,69653,69649,69652,69650,1767],"class_list":["post-637948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-buckeye-womens-ice-hockey","tag-buckeyes","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-canada-head-coach","tag-hockey-canada-u18-womens-world-championship","tag-muzerall-canada-head-coach","tag-nadine-muzerall","tag-ohio-state-athletics","tag-ohio-state-ice-hockey","tag-ohio-state-ice-hockey-head-coach","tag-ohio-state-nadine-muzerall","tag-ohio-state-sports","tag-ohio-state-womens-ice-hockey","tag-pwhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117048115660495133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}