The College of St. Scholastica

Jackie MacMillan leads the St. Scholastica women's hockey program into its 11^th season in 2020-21.
 
MacMillan guided the Saints to their second consecutive NCHA Slaats Cup Championship game in 2019-20. During the year, that squad also recorded the program’s first-ever win over a nationally ranked top-five team, defeating No. 5 University of St. Thomas 2-1.
 
Her 2018-19 team set program marks for wins (21), including a program record 11-game winning streak. MacMillan guided the Saints to the NCHA Championship game for the first time in program history where it fell in double overtime. She also coached two AHCA All-Americans in Rachel Anderson and Lexi Thomeczek, while also earning NCHA Coach of the Year honors for the first time. In 2017-18, MacMillan’s Saints finished unbeaten at home (9-0-3) for the first time ever.
 
MacMillan coached the school’s first-ever four-time NCAA All-American in Nina Waidacher from 2011-15. Waidacher was also the school’s first-ever Olympic medalist, taking bronze with Team Switzerland at the 2014 Sochi Games.
 
The 2013-14 season saw the Saints come within one game of capturing the NCHA Regular Season Championship. In 2012-13, the Saints won their first postseason games and series, sweeping Lake Forest College to advance to the NCHA O’Brien Cup semifinals.

Prior to CSS, MacMillan spent two years as the head coach at Division III New England College, guiding the Pioneers to 15 wins in her first full season, which tied a single-season program record and led them to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) East Championship game for the second time in school history. During her three seasons at NEC, she accumulated a 31-26-3 record.

Before moving to New England, MacMillan spent three seasons as the assistant coach at Division I Union College. Other coaching experience for MacMillan includes serving as an assistant coach at St. Olaf College and as an assistant coach for Shattuck-St. Mary’s Prep. She was also an instructor for numerous camps and hockey schools including, USA 18-Under Development Camp and NCWHL Hockey Clinic.

MacMillan is very familiar with first-year women’s hockey programs as she was part of the first recruiting class for the University of Wisconsin in 1999.

“I was extremely blessed to be a part of the inaugural team at the University of Wisconsin,” MacMillan said. “What I remember are many of the first moments: the first practice, game, road trip and all of my teammates who were a part of those first four years.”

As a starting goalie for the Badgers, MacMillan led the nation in goals against average in 2002. She was a first team all-Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) selection in 2000 and was a second team choice in 2002. She was named WCHA Player of the Week six different times during her career and was on the WCHA All-Academic Team in 2002 and 2003.

During her four years MacMillan had 75 wins in between the pipes. She still holds numerous goaltending records for the Badgers. She also played for the United States under-22 national team in 2000.

MacMillan, who grew up in Buffalo, Minn., played with boys teams since she was five years old. She was a captain on the Buffalo High School Boys varsity team her senior year. She was inducted into the Buffalo Hockey Hall of Fame in 2005. MacMillan’s father, Mike, played goaltender at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.