Head coach Jeff Kampersal added Moe Bradley as an assistant coach in June 2025 and she enters her second season with the Nittany Lions in 2026-27.
Bradley helped Penn State to a historic season in her first year in Happy Valley.
Penn State captured its fourth consecutive AHA Tournament championship and fifth consecutive regular-season title while earning the #3 overall seed in the NCAA Women’s Hockey Tournament. The Nittany Lions hosted an NCAA Tournament game for the first time in school history, secured their first NCAA Tournament victory and advanced to the Frozen Four for the first time.
Penn State not only reached the national semifinals but also hosted the 2025-26 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four at Pegula Ice Arena, setting both a program attendance record and a Women’s Frozen Four attendance record with 5,176 fans in attendance.
The Nittany Lions established new single-season program records in goals, assists, points, shots, power-play goals, shutouts and goals-against average while recording the most victories in a single season in school history.
Another landmark moment came on January 30, 2026, when Penn State played its first outdoor game at West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium. The Nittany Lions defeated Robert Morris, 3-0, before a crowd of 1,828 fans.
The 2025-26 season also featured one of the most decorated individual campaigns in program history. Tessa Janecke became Penn State’s first Olympic gold medalist, helping Team USA defeat Canada in overtime of the gold-medal game at the Winter Olympics in Milan. Janecke was named a CCM/AHCA First Team All-American, First Team All-USCHO selection, AHA Player of the Year, AHA Forward of the Year and a top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award. She also established new Penn State records in 11 career categories and four single-season categories. In addition, Maltide Fantin (Italy) and Nicole Hall (Sweden) represented their countries at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina.
As the goaltending coach, Bradley also helped garner All-AHA First Team honors for Katie DeSa.
Prior to Penn State, Bradley spent the past two seasons as head coach at her Alma Mater, Division III UMass Boston. She led the Beacons to 21-26-5 record over the past two seasons including a 19-13-4 record in New England Hockey Conference play with back-to-back fourth place finishes in the 10-team league. Bradley was named the 2024 NEHC Coach of the Year following her first season as bench boss and mentored three NEHC All-Conference selections including Gianna Skrelja who earned All-Rookie Team in 2023-24 and Third Team All-Conference this past season.
A 2015 graduate of UMass Boston, Bradley is one of the most decorated goaltenders in program history. Between the pipes, she led the Beacons to the program’s first-ever Codfish Bowl Championship in 2014. Bradley ranks third all-time with a 2.23 goals-against average and holds the second-best single-season goals-against average in program history at 1.58.