Celeste Brown ‘15 enters her second season as the Bruce B. Bates Women’s Hockey Coach at her alma mater in 2021-22. Brown played for the New York Riveters during the inaugural season of the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) in 2015-16 while also kicking off her coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Division III Manhattanville. She played the following season with the NWHL’s Connecticut Whale while also serving as an assistant coach at Division III Connecticut College.