Position: | Defense |
Shoots: | Right |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 8 |
Weight Lb: | 149 |
Team: | Harvard |
League: | ECAC |
Sex: | f |
Ntl Team: | USA |
Birth Date: | 27 December 1990 |
Birth Place: | Queens, NY, USA |
Career Start: | 2008 |
Career End: | 2014 |
Josephine Pucci (born December 27, 1990) is a former women's ice hockey player for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey program who made her debut for the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship.
Her freshman year with Harvard was during the 2009–10 season. Pucci participated in 31 games and accumulated 13 points on four goals and nine assists. Her contributions helped Harvard rank fifth in the nation in scoring defense.[1] On November 21, 2009, she registered a season high three assists in one game versus Brown. Four days later, she scored a power play goal and assisted on the game-winning goal against Dartmouth.
In her sophomore year, Pucci led all Harvard defenders with 25 points on 12 goals and 13 assists, and led the team with a +24 rating.[2]
From April 4 to 12, 2011, she was one of 30 players that took part in a selection / training camp. She was named to the final roster that participated at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship.[3] Pucci was named to the U.S. roster that traveled to the Four Nations Cup from Nov. 9–13, 2011 in Sweden.[4]
Pucci was a defenseman and a captain for the Crimson's 2012–2013 season.