Boston College is bringing a familiar face back to the Heights. Katie Crowley, the Jane Rattigan Head Women’s Hockey Coach, announced Friday that Taylor Wasylk ’14 has joined the Eagles’ coaching staff.
Wasylk returns after three seasons as Lindenwood’s head coach, where her 2025-26 team set a program record with 14 wins and finished with 11 conference victories, the most in program history. Lindenwood also picked up its first playoff win in nearly 10 years and its first home playoff victory.
Her résumé also includes five seasons running the Suffolk University program in Boston. There, Wasylk went 64-44-7 and helped the Rams capture their first Commonwealth Coast Conference title and earn their first NCAA Tournament berth in 2022-23.
At Suffolk, Wasylk was the architect of the program from the start. She took over in 2017, a year before the team’s first season, and helped guide the Rams to a 15-9-2 record in their debut campaign, along with a trip to the NEHC quarterfinals.
Her coaching path began in 2014-15 as an assistant at UMass Boston, followed by a season at SUNY Canton. With the Roos, she helped that program reach the postseason for the first time in its inaugural season in the Colonial Hockey Conference.
Wasylk’s ties to Boston College go back to her playing days. A four-year letterwinner from 2010-14, she was part of three straight NCAA Frozen Four teams from 2011-13 and won two Beanpot titles, two Hockey East championships and the 2014 Nutmeg Classic.
Individually, she was honored in 2014 as Hockey East Best Defensive Forward and Beanpot Tournament MVP.
A native of Port Huron, Michigan, Wasylk also played for the United States at the Under-18, Under-22 and senior levels and appeared at multiple World Championships. She graduated from Boston College in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in history and a minor in international studies.
Now, she returns to the Eagles with more than a decade of coaching experience and a long list of accomplishments from her time on the ice.
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