The Colorado Avalanche have promoted Kim Weiss to assistant coach of the membership’s American Hockey League affiliate, the Colorado Eagles.
She joins Tim Branham and Derek Military as assistants to move coach Mark Letestu.
Weiss turns into the second feminine full-time assistant coach in AHL historical past after Jessica Campbell, who served in that capability with the Coachella Valley Firebirds from 2022 to 2024 earlier than being promoted to the Seattle Kraken.
Weiss, 36, joined the Eagles as video coach on Aug. 7, 2024.
“Kim has completed a fantastic job since becoming a member of the Eagles teaching employees, and it is a well-earned promotion,” stated Avalanche assistant normal supervisor and Eagles GM Kevin McDonald. “We’re excited to see her continued contributions to the group’s success sooner or later.”
A local of Potomac, Md., Weiss was a visitor coach for the Avalanche in 2023-24 and labored every of the final 4 Avalanche growth camps in numerous capacities. She additionally served as an assistant coach for Trinity School’s males’s hockey program in 2023-24, and has coached with the NAHL’s Maryland Black Bears and AAA Washington Pleasure packages.
Weiss performed collegiately at Trinity School, the place she was group captain as a junior and senior and earned convention participant of the yr honors in 2010-11. She is a member of the NHL Coaches Affiliation’s Feminine Coaches Growth Program.
