College of Saint Benedict Sports Information Department
ST. JOSEPH, Minn. – After its second 10-win season in the last three years, the College of Saint Benedict hockey team has a new coach who’s ready to keep building on those success and take the team to the next level.
Lindsay Macy has been hired as the program’s eighth head coach, Saint Benedict Athletic Director Kelly Anderson Diercks announced Monday. Macy is currently the head women’s hockey coach at Finlandia University, and she brings plenty of coaching experience as well as high-level playing experience with her to St. Joseph.
“Bennie hockey is in a position where we are ready to make a jump to the next level,” Anderson Diercks said. “Lindsay is a coach who is on the way up in her coaching career, and putting those two things together is exciting for the future of CSB hockey.”
Macy has been the head coach at Finlandia since May 2020, and she orchestrated a rebuild of the program in her two seasons. She earned NCHA Coach of the Year honors – a first in Finlandia women’s hockey history – after guiding the Lions to their best record since the 2017-18 season.
Macy also owns Relentless Hockey, a summer hockey school in Idaho that trains hockey players at all levels of the game. She started her coaching career at the Coeur D’Alene Hockey Academy in Cour d’Alene, Idaho, where she spent three seasons as the general manager and head coach of the U19 women’s team that competed as the only U.S. team in the prestigious Canadian Sport School Hockey League. Macy was an assistant for both the boys’ and girls’ varsity hockey programs in her hometown of Owatonna, and served as the head coach of the JV boys’ team.
Before stepping on the ice as a coach, Macy had a successful playing career that started in high school and continued through a stint with the Minnesota Whitecaps and the U.S. U22 National Team. She started her collegiate career at the University of Wisconsin where she scored 74 points in 66 games, and finished her career at MSU-Mankato where she scored 44 points in 62 games. She helped the Whitecaps win the Western Women’s Hockey League championship and reach the Clarkston Cup Final in 2008-09.
“First and foremost, I want to thank Kelly and staff for this opportunity,” Macy said. “I am excited to start working with the student-athletes and staff at Saint Ben’s to continue the growth of a great program. I look forward to getting back to my roots to help continue to grow the game that has given me so much in the great state of hockey.”
The Bennies finished the 2021-22 season 10-12-1 overall and sixth in the MIAC, and made the program’s second-ever appearance in the MIAC Tournament. Macy inherits a squad returning plenty of talent, including rising sophomore Jenna Timm who earned All-MIAC First Team honors – a first for the Bennies since 2016-17 – and a spot on the All-MIAC Rookie Team.
Macy starts her duties as the Bennies’ head coach on May 16.
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