Lora Ardoin was announced as the Roger Williams University Head Women's Ice Hockey Coach on April 23, 2025 and officially began her tenure in August 2025.
Ardoin joins Roger Williams after serving as an assistant coach for the Utica University women's ice hockey program during the 2024-2025 season. At Utica, she instructed players on ice skills and in-game systems, coordinated video breakdowns, assisted in key recruiting efforts, and oversaw team travel logistics.
Prior to her time at Utica, Ardoin held assistant coaching positions at Union College during the 2023-24 season and at Stevenson University from 2021 to 2023. In these positions, she played pivotal roles in practice planning, video analysis, recruiting, and player support.
Ardoin began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Elmira College from 2019 to 2021, after beginning her career in athletics with the Knoxville Ice Bears of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL), where she served as an Account Executive, developing corporate partnerships and organizing community outreach programs. She holds a bachelor's degree in Sports Management from SUNY Canton in 2017 and a master's degree in Management from Elmira College in 2021.
As a former NCAA student-athlete at SUNY Canton, Ardoin competed in both women's ice hockey and lacrosse from 2013 to 2017. She captained the women's ice hockey team during the early seasons of the program's existence, while serving as president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Her leadership extended beyond athletics through her involvement with Special Olympics Area 26 as a lead student coordinator.
