CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Three Boston College women's hockey players have been named to the 2022 United States Women's Olympic Hockey Team. USA Hockey announced the 23-player roster on Saturday during the NHL Winter Classic.
 
Cayla Barnes, Megan Keller '19 and Alex Carpenter '16 were all named to the Olympic roster for the second time in their careers. Additionally, associate head coach Courtney Kennedy is an assistant coach on head coach Joel Johnson's staff for the Beijing games.
 
Barnes and Keller were members of the gold-medal winning squad at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang while Carpenter was a member of the silver-medal squad at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. The trio, along with Kennedy, most recently earned silver medals this past August at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championships.
 
The Eagles and the U.S. team will begin preliminary play on Thursday, Feb. 3 against Finland. The U.S. women will be seeking their third Olympic gold medal – and second-consecutive gold medal after defeating Canada, 3-2, in a shootout at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
 
Cayla Barnes
Barnes, who was the youngest player on the 2018 U.S. Olympic Team, made her senior national team debut in December 2016. She was a member of the gold-medal winning squad at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship. A three-time member of the U.S. Under-18 Team, she is the only player in IIHF Women's Under-18 World Championship history to win three gold medals.
 
In PyeongChang, she played in all five games en route to a gold medal. She was a plus-3 for the tournament and played 104 shifts and 72:46 total minutes, including a regular shift in overtime of the gold-medal game against Canada.
 
The defender was a Second Team All-American and Hockey East First Team All-Star selection for BC in 2020-21. She finished her third season as an Eagle with 10 points on four goals and six assists while blocking a team-leading 36 shots. The Eastvale, Calif. native also had 59 shots on goal to rank eighth nationally among blue liners. 
 
Alex Carpenter
Carpenter participated in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, winning a silver medal. The forward scored a team-high four goals, including the lone U.S. goal in the Gold Medal game versus Canada. As a member of the senior national team, she has earned a spot on seven World Championship teams (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021) and played in six championship games (gold-2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019; silver- 2021).
 
Carpenter, the 2015 Patty Kazmaier Award winner, finished her illustrious career at BC as the school's career leaders in points (278), goals (133), assists (145), power-play goals (26), game-winning goals (27) and plus/minus (+180) and remains the highest-scoring hockey player in school history, men or women. The North Reading, Mass. native was a three-time Patty Kazmaier Award Top-10 Finalist, twice earning a spot in the top-3. Carpenter was a First Team All-American as a junior and senior and earned a spot on the second team as a sophomore. She was a four-time Hockey East First Team All-Star and was a two-time Hockey East Player of the Year.
 
Megan Keller
Keller made her senior team debut at the 2014 Four Nations Cup where the U.S. won silver. The Farmington Hills, Mich. native started in the USA Hockey program in 2013 as part of the Under-18 Select Team and helped the U-18s win a silver medal at the 2014 IIHF Under-18 World Championships. She was then a part of the Women's National Team at the 2015 IIHF World Championships, winning the first of her four gold medals (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019) at the event.
 
In PyeongChang, Keller led all U.S. players in shifts, hitting the ice 152 times in five games and was second in ice time among all players (108:40), averaging 21:44 of playing time per game. She posted a plus-5 rating during the tournament, tied with defense partner Emily Pfalzer '15 for the best mark among U.S. players. She recorded two assists at the Olympics.
 
Keller, just the second defenseman ever to be a three-time finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, finished her time on the Heights as the program's career leader in defenseman scoring (158), goals (45), and assists (113) and she sits in the top-10 overall in points (sixth), assists (fourth), plus/minus (third, +177) and game-winning goals (10th). She was a two-time Cammi Granato Award winner as the Hockey East Player of the Year, the lone blue liner to ever win the award. She closed out her career as a three-time First Team All-American, the first in program history, and a four-time Hockey East All-Star First Team selection and three-time Hockey East Best Defenseman.
 
Courtney Kennedy
A Woburn, Mass. Native, Kennedy has helped lead the U.S. to four goal medals at the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship as an assistant coach, including in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018. She was also an assistant coach for the silver medal-winning U.S. Women's National Team at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship.

As a player, Kennedy helped Team USA to a silver medal at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and bronze at the 2006 Games, and was also a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. entry at the 2005 IIHF Women's World Championship, the first-ever U.S. team to claim the top spot on the podium in the event.

Kennedy and the Jane Rattigan Head Women's Hockey Coach, Katie Crowley, have been on the BC bench together since the 2007-08 season. In that time, BC has been to 11 NCAA Tournaments and six NCAA Frozen Fours and won five Hockey East regular-season titles, three Hockey East Tournament championships and six Beanpot crowns.