{"id":2103,"date":"2014-02-27T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2024-10-16T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T20:07:41","slug":"andrew-kent-09-coaching-in-olympics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2014\/02\/27\/andrew-kent-09-coaching-in-olympics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Kent &#8217;09 Coaching in Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College alumnus Andrew Kent &#8217;09 traveled halfway around the world for the adventure of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Kent served as goalie coach for the Finland women&#8217;s hockey team in the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. A goalie for the Augsburg men&#8217;s hockey team from 2005 to 2009, Kent has turned his love of hockey into a profession, serving as a director of goaltender development for MEGA Goaltending, a Twin Cities-based development center for hockey goalies. He has served as a volunteer goalie coach for the University of Minnesota&#8217;s women&#8217;s hockey team for the past four seasons, which led to his role on the Finland coaching staff for the 2014 Winter Olympics. <a href=\"http:\/\/athletics.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/2\/6\/mhoc020614.aspx\">More&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_2107\">\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/02\/finland-raty-kent2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"finland-raty-kent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/02\/finland-raty-kent2-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Noora R\u00e4ty and Andrew Kent\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Noora R\u00e4ty (left), Andrew Kent &#8217;09 (right)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrew Kent in the News<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/245630731.html\">Star Tribune<br \/>\n<\/a>MIAC Athletics<br \/>\nUSCHO<br \/>\nBIG 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College alumnus Andrew Kent &#8217;09 traveled halfway around the world for the adventure of a lifetime. Kent served as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51930,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/51930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}