June 6, 2007

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - - University of Louisville Director of Olympic Sports Performance, Teena Murray, has been named strength and conditioning coach for the USA Hockey Women's National Program as announced by USA Hockey. She also held that position in 2006.

Murray is currently in her third year as the Director of Olympic Sports Performance at the University of Louisville. She oversees the strength and Conditioning and performance nutrition programs for U of L's Olympic sports and works directly with women's soccer, women's basketball and softball.

She has worked as a consultant for the NHL's Florida Panthers and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Hartford Wolfpack of the American Hockey League. She is currently a consultant for USA Hockey's Coaching Education program.

Murray, a native of Shawville, Quebec (Canada), played collegiate basketball at Wilfrid Laurier University on Waterloo, Canada where she studied kinesiology. She earned a master's degree in exercise physiology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association and United States Weightlifting.