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Tracey DeKeyser (Cornell) is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and former coach with the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program.

Playing career
She attended Cornell University, where she was a co-captain on the women's ice hockey team and a member of the In 1998, she played in Switzerland for SC Reinach Lions and helped them become Zurich Cup Tournament Champions. Later she also graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. She resides in Middleton, Wisconsin.
 * co-captain as sr
 * team rookie of the year as frosh
 * Ive League conference title 1995–96
 * 1996–97 academic All-Ivy (3.36)
 * 160 PIM
 * participated in an "adopt-a-player mentoring program" with the Tompkins Girls Hockey Association in Ithica

Coaching career
DeKeyser accepted her first coaching position, head coach of the girls' ice hockey team of Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, upon returning to North America in 2008. She led the team to a 24-4-2 record, the most successful campaign in team history at that time.

The following year, she joined the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program as an assistant coach to head coach Julie Sasner in the team's inaugural season.

DeKeyser and fellow assistant coach Dan Koch helmed the team as co-coaches from January 2002 through the end of the 2001–02 season while head coach Trina Bourget was on medical leave. The duo achieved a 15-3-0 record and a second place finish in the WCHA postseason during their period as co-coaches.

Mark Johnson was appointed head coach in the summer of 2002 and both DeKeyser and Koch were kept on an assistant coaches. The Badgers won their first National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship in 2006 and went on to win the national championship in 2007 and 2009; they were championship runners-up in 2008.

When head coach Mark Johnson took a sabbatical to coach the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, DeKeyser and Koch were again designated as co-coaches. However, Koch accepted a head coaching position with the girls' under-16 ice hockey team at Shattuck-Saint Mary's in the summer of 2009 and, in his abscence, DeKeyser was appointed the sole interim head coach for the 2009–10 season.

The 2009–10 Badgers season was dubbed a "rebuilding year" before the first puck was dropped due to the number of roster and staffing changes that followed their 2009 National Championship victory. The program graduated six players (including starting goaltender Jessie Vetter) and both Meghan Duggan and Hilary Knight took leaves of absence to participate in US national team centralization, while it concurrently welcomed nine first-year players and two new assistant coaches, Jackie Friesen and Peter Johnson. As expected, the team was less successful than it had been in the previous season, amassing a record of 18-15-3 and ranking fourth in the WCHA in both the regular season and conference playoff, however, several players had standout years, including juniors Brooke Ammerman and Mallory Deluce, and freshman Brianna Decker.

DeKeyser returned to her assistant coaching position for the 2010–11 season and the Badgers won the 2011 National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship, their fourth NCAA championship.


 * Sara Bauer (2007)
 * Meghan Duggan (2011)
 * Angie Keseley (2009)
 * Hilary Knight (ice hockey) (2012)
 * Erika Lawler (2009)
 * Carla MacLeod (2005)
 * Meaghan Mikkelson (2007)
 * Bobbi-Jo Slusar (2007)
 * Jessie Vetter (2009)
 * Kerry Weiland (2003)
 * Jinelle Zaugg-Siergiej (2008)

Personal life
A native of Ashton, Ontario, Canada, DeKeyser was a student at South Carleton High School. She began attending Cornell University in 1993, where she was a member of the Quill and Dagger, and graduated with a BSc in marine ecology in 1997. In 2007, she earned a MBA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

She and her husband, Darren, were married in 2008 and their first child was born in c. 2010. The family attends the Christian church where Darren works and DeKeyser has cited her faith as an important part of her playing and coaching career.

Awards and honors

 * Four-year letterwinner, Cornell
 * Academic All-Ivy honoree