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Team Details
Ice Hockey - Prep Girls
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Shady Side Academy has been setting the standard of excellence for hockey student-athletes since 1996. SSA offers six teams for boys and girls in grades 6–12 and boasts a state-of-the-art, on-campus ice arena for games and practices.
The girls' prep team plays a competitive schedule and competes in the Women’s Interscholastic Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic (WIHLMA). On- and off-ice practices are held five days a week.
Team Schedule
SSA vs. Steel City Selects
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SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Win
4-0
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ HILL SCHOOL, Hill School
Away
Loss
1-2
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ HILL SCHOOL, Hill School
Away
Loss
1-4
SSA vs Steel City Selects
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Win
2-1
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ PRINCETON, Morristown Beard School
Away
Morristown NJ Twin Oaks Rink
POSTPONED: 01/05/2018
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ PRINCETON, Princeton Day School
Away
Morristown NJ Twin Oaks Rink
Win
4-1
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ PRINCETON, Morristown Beard School
Away
Tie
1-1
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ PRINCETON, Morristown Beard School
Away
Loss
1-2
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ PRINCETON, Princeton Day School
Away
Win
4-0
vs.
SSA vs Arrows, Armstrong U-19
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Win
2-1
SSA vs Pens Elite
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Win
3-2
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, Rye Country Day School
Away
Win
6-0
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, Portledge School
Away
Tie
1-1
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, Rye Country Day School
Away
Win
2-1
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, Portledge School
Away
Win
3-0
SSA vs Steel City Selects
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Win
3-2
SSA vs Steel City Selects
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SSA McKnight Hockey Center
CANCELLED
SSA vs Pens Elite
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SSA McKnight Hockey Center
POSTPONED: TBD
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ SHADY SIDE ACADEMY, Princeton Day School
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Win
4-1
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ SHADY SIDE ACADEMY, Morristown Beard School
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Win
2-1
vs.
WIHLMA WEEKEND @ SHADY SIDE ACADEMY, Hill School
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Loss
1-2
vs.
SSA vs Arrows, Armstrong U-19
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Tie
2-2
SSA vs. Steel City Selects U19
Home
SSA McKnight Hockey Center
Win
3-2
Coach Info
Head Coach Kate Binnie
Kate (Michael) Binnie is a former Division I ice hockey player at St. Lawrence University, where she played for four years and was chosen as a co-captain her senior year. During her time at St. Lawrence, she helped lead the Saints to three Frozen Four appearances. Coach Binnie grew up in the Sewickley area playing for the Quaker Valley boys team as well as several boys and girls travel teams. She has been coaching since 2008 with Pittsburgh Elite’s AAA girl’s hockey program.
Assistant Coach Pamela Ciardi Lloyd
Pamela (Ciardi) Lloyd has been coaching at Shady Side Academy since 2005. She grew up in the Pittsburgh area and played on both her high school boys' ice hockey team and competitive girls' travel teams before earning a degree in elementary education services from California University of Pennsylvania. Coach Lloyd is also the head coach of the Shady Side Academy Middle School girls ice hockey team.
Assistant Coach Britton Wean '02
Britton Wean '02 has been an assistant coach with the team since 2013. After graduating from SSA, she attended St. Lawrence University, where she majored in art and minored in education and anthropology. She taught art at Trinity School in Atlanta and worked for a residential builder and real estate broker in Mississippi before returning to Pittsburgh in 2012. She currently works as Fox Chapel Country Day School's director of development and marketing.