USA Hockey also announced today that Jerry Keefe (Saugus, Mass.), associate head coach of the Northeastern University men's ice hockey team, will serve as an assistant coach for the 2019 U.S. National Junior Team, joining head coach Mike Hastings (Crookston, Minn./Minnesota State) and fellow assistants David Lassonde (Durham, N.H./Dartmouth College), Steve Miller (Columbus, Ohio/Ohio State University) and Scott Sandelin (Hibbing, Minn./University of Minnesota Duluth).

While Keefe is serving on a U.S. national team staff for the first time, he has been involved in an instructor in multiple USA Hockey events during the course of his career.

The 2018-19 campaign will mark Keefe's eighth season at Northeastern and fifth as associate head coach. Since joining the Huskies as an assistant coach in 2011-12, Keefe has been instrumental in Northeastern's notable successes that include the program's first Hockey East Championship (2015-16) and first Beanpot title (2017-18) since 1988. Prior to joining Northeastern, Keefe served two seasons (2009-11) as an assistant coach for Brown University and four seasons in the NCAA Division III ranks, including two seasons (2007-09) as head coach of Westfield State University and one season (2006-07) as an assistant coach for the University of Massachusetts Boston.