{{short description|American ice hockey forward}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox ice hockey player | name = | image = | caption = | image_size = | alt = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|2000|6|14|mf=y}} | birth_place = Burlington, Massachusetts, United States | death_date = | death_place = | height_cm = 168 | weight_kg = | position = Forward | shoots = Left | league = NCAA | team = Boston College Eagles | played_for = | sex = f | ntl_team = USA | career_start = 2018 | career_end = }}
'''Kelly Browne''' is an American ice hockey forward, currently playing for the Boston College Eagles in the NCAA.
== Career == During high school, she first played for Burlington High School, before joining Tabor Academy, serving as the team's captain in her senior year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brothers |first=Bryan |date=May 5, 2015 |title=Hockey standout Kelly Browne headed for Tabor Academy next year |url=https://burlington.wickedlocal.com/article/20150505/sports/150508291 |website=Burlington Union |access-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-date=February 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204014833/https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/burlington-union/2015/05/05/hockey-standout-kelly-browne-headed/64718997007/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She picked up a number of awards in 2018, including being named NEPSAC Division I Player of the Year, the Boston Bruins’ John Carlton Memorial Trophy, and Independent School League MVP.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Friar |first=Nick |title=Tabor's Kelly Browne named best girls hockey player in Eastern Massachusetts |url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/sports/20180416/tabors-kelly-browne-named-best-girls-hockey-player-in-eastern-massachusetts |website=southcoasttoday.com }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
She joined Boston College in 2018, playing for the university's women's hockey programme. She notched 26 points in 39 games in her rookie collegiate year, being named to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Dan |date=January 24, 2020 |title=The Dream Coming True for Kelly Browne |url=https://bceagles.com/news/2020/1/24/eagles-unlimited-the-dream-coming-true-for-kelly-browne.aspx |website=Boston College Athletics |access-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-date=March 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305114048/https://bceagles.com/news/2020/1/24/eagles-unlimited-the-dream-coming-true-for-kelly-browne.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> In late-October 2019, she scored her first collegiate hat trick, notching four goals in a 5–2 victory over the New Hampshire Wildcats, the 11th four-goal game in Boston College history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-bc-eagles-womens-hockey/2019/11/1/20944448/goal-by-goal-boston-college-bc-eagles-womens-hockey-final-score-new-hampshire-5-2-kelly-browne|title=GOAL BY GOAL: Kelly Browne Scores A Quad Trick To Lead BC Women's Hockey Past New Hampshire|first=Grant|last=Salzano|date=November 1, 2019|website=BC Interruption|access-date=January 7, 2021|archive-date=December 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201161809/https://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-bc-eagles-womens-hockey/2019/11/1/20944448/goal-by-goal-boston-college-bc-eagles-womens-hockey-final-score-new-hampshire-5-2-kelly-browne|url-status=live}}</ref> That year, she improved her point production to 36 points in 36 games.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theicegarden.com/2020/11/18/21572501/ncaa-womens-hockey-2020-21-hockey-east-preview-part-2|title=2020-21 NCAA Preview: Hockey East, part 2|first=Gabriella|last=Fundaro|date=November 18, 2020|website=The Ice Garden|access-date=January 7, 2021|archive-date=November 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118171615/https://www.theicegarden.com/2020/11/18/21572501/ncaa-womens-hockey-2020-21-hockey-east-preview-part-2|url-status=live}}</ref> She was named a junior captain for the team for the 2020–21 season, and was named Hockey East Player of the Week in the first week of December 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bceagles.com/news/2020/12/7/womens-hockey-hockey-east-tabs-browne-mcarthur-for-weekly-awards.aspx|title=Hockey East Tabs Browne, McArthur for Weekly Awards|website=Boston College Athletics|date=7 December 2020 |access-date=2021-01-07|archive-date=2020-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207163948/https://bceagles.com/news/2020/12/7/womens-hockey-hockey-east-tabs-browne-mcarthur-for-weekly-awards.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>
== International career == In 2016 and 2017, Browne attended both the American Girls Select U18 Player Development Camp and USA Hockey Women's National Festival each year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teamusa.usahockey.com/page/show/2875486-kelly-browne|title=Kelly Browne|website=teamusa.usahockey.com|access-date=2021-01-07|archive-date=2022-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813161405/https://teamusa.usahockey.com/page/show/2875486-kelly-browne|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Brion |date=July 6, 2014 |title=Local rink stars move to next level |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/north/2014/07/05/beverly-julia-nearis-burlington-kelly-browne-headline-local-skaters-usa-hockey-camp/r1qbFNUTEYMS92ki0P60sL/story.html |website=The Boston Globe |access-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-date=August 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813161405/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/north/2014/07/05/beverly-julia-nearis-burlington-kelly-browne-headline-local-skaters-usa-hockey-camp/r1qbFNUTEYMS92ki0P60sL/story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She then represented the United States at the 2018, picking up two points in five games as the country won gold.
She was called up to the senior American national team in February 2020, to make her senior debut in the 2019-20 Rivalry Series against Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theicegarden.com/2020/1/17/21070515/usa-hockey-announces-roster-for-february-rivalry-series-womens-hockey|title=USA Hockey announces roster for February Rivalry Series|first=Anne|last=Tokarski|date=January 17, 2020|website=The Ice Garden|access-date=January 7, 2021|archive-date=February 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200208042602/https://www.theicegarden.com/2020/1/17/21070515/usa-hockey-announces-roster-for-february-rivalry-series-womens-hockey|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Personal life == Browne is enrolled at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bceagles.com/sports/womens-ice-hockey/roster/kelly-browne/13265|title=Kelly Browne - Women's Hockey|website=Boston College Athletics|access-date=2021-01-07|archive-date=2023-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204014836/https://bceagles.com/sports/womens-ice-hockey/roster/kelly-browne/15996|url-status=live}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{icehockeystats|elite=553918}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, Kelly}} Category:2000 births Category:Living people Category:American women's ice hockey forwards Category:Boston College Eagles women's ice hockey players Category:Ice hockey players from Massachusetts Category:Sportspeople from Burlington, Massachusetts Category:Ice hockey people from Middlesex County, Massachusetts Category:21st-century American sportswomen