Victoire title Caroline Ouellette, as assistant coach

MONTRÉAL, QC – The Montréal Victoire are including depth to their bench with the addition of Hockey Corridor of Fame member Caroline Ouellette, who will function a full-time assistant coach forward of the 2025-26 Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) season.

Ouellette, who spent the final two seasons as a part of the Victoire teaching workers whereas additionally serving as an affiliate head coach for the ladies’s hockey program at Concordia College, will now maintain a full-time place with the workforce.

“Caroline has been providing us useful steering because the starting, and we’re thrilled to have her on board full-time. Her expertise, each on the ice and behind the bench, is a super asset to our group and our teaching workers,” mentioned Victoire Normal Supervisor, Danièle Sauvageau.

Inducted into each the Hockey Corridor of Fame and the Worldwide Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Corridor of Fame in 2023 for her achievements on the ice—together with 4 Olympic gold medals (2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014)—the Montréal native has continued to gather championships after transitioning to teaching.

In 2008, Ouellette received a nationwide championship as an assistant coach together with her alma mater, the College of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. Extra just lately, she helped information the Concordia Stingers to nationwide titles in 2022 and 2024. As an assistant coach with Canada’s Nationwide Girls’s Group, she has contributed to 2 IIHF Girls’s World Championship gold medals (2022, 2024), three silver (2017, 2023, 2025), and one bronze (2019).

“I do know Caro properly—not solely have we labored intently collectively on the nationwide workforce and with La Victoire because the starting of this journey, however we additionally competed in opposition to one another again in our CWHL days. It’s been unimaginable to develop our teaching chemistry over the previous three years, and we’re very excited to now depend on her experience and data on a full-time foundation,” mentioned Victoire head coach, Kori Cheverie.

“I’m extraordinarily completely happy to proceed my work with La Victoire. Danièle, Kori, and the gamers have set a normal of excellence, and I’m completely happy to have the ability to contribute each day. Now we have a passionate and hardworking workforce, and I’m keen to start our journey this season,” mentioned Ouellette.

Ouellette and Jayna Hefford, PWHL Govt Vice President of Hockey Operations, are the league’s two present members of the Hockey Corridor of Fame. The 2025 class of honourees consists of Sauvageau, the primary lady ever to be named within the builder class, and newly appointed Minnesota Frost assistant coach, Brianna Decker, within the participant class.