Laura Bellamy will enter her eighth season at UMD in 2022-23 and fourth as an associate head coach after four seasons as an assistant to UMD bench boss Maura Crowell. She was selected the 2022 recipient of the Women's Ice Hockey Assistant Coach Award by the American Hockey Coaches Association. Bellamy and the Bulldogs made their first trip back to an NCAA Frozen Four title game in March of 2022 and locked in their second-consecutive NCAA Frozen Four appearance for the first time in over a decade