Jaime Totten to Serve as Assistant Coach to the U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 22, 2008) - The University of Connecticut women's ice hockey assistant coach, Jaime Totten, has been chosen to serve as an assistant coach for the U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team in 2008.

Totten will serve as an assistant to Under-22 head coach Jackie Barto, who guided the U.S. Women's National Team to the gold medal at the 2008 IIHF World Women's Championship. Steve Sertich, the head women's ice hockey coach at Bemidji State University will join Totten as an assistant coach.

As a USA Hockey Level 4 certified coach, Totten has been with the UConn women's ice hockey program for eight seasons under the direction of head coach Heather Linstad, who also served as Totten's head coach at Northeastern when she played for four years before graduating in 2000.

In 2007, Totten was selected to work with the USA Hockey U-14 select camp in Rochester, N.Y., while she has also coached the Select 16's and 17's at the Junior National Camp in Lake Placid, N.Y. Totten was also a participant at the 1997 USA Festival, when the 1998 Olympic team was being selected.

A current resident of Mansfield Center, Conn., Totten serves as Linstad's top assistant for the UConn program. She has served as the recruiting coordinator since the program began in 2000 and has handled the defensive end of the bench, along with video breakdown and the team's penalty kill.

This season, the Huskies finished with a program-record 22 wins before falling against Providence in the Hockey East Tournament. They also picked up an eighth place ranking in the national polls, the best ranking in program history.

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