ITHACA, N.Y. -- Former Cornell star and Canadian national team player Jessica Campbell is serving as the first female coach in the history of the men's senior IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships. Campbell is assisting Team Germany under the direction of Toni Soderholm. 

Campbell has been a trailblazer in the hockey coaching world, earlier this season becoming the first female coach when she joined the bench of the Nuremberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, the top German hockey league. 

An all-ECAC Hockey and all-Ivy selection, Campbell played in 131 contests and registered 100 points (46 goals, 54 assists) with a +83 plus-minus and eight game-winning goals. She assisted the program to four NCAA Tournament appearances, three Ivy League titles, three ECAC Hockey regular season and tournament titles and a pair of Frozen Fours while compiling an impressive 112-20-7 record (73-10-5 ECAC Hockey). She played for the Canadian national team and her college coach, Doug Derraugh, at the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championships in Malmo, Sweden, helping the team take silver. She played in all five games at the championships. Campbell also played in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), winning the Clarkson Cup in 2016 on a Calgary Inferno team that included Cornellians Rebecca Johnston and Brianne Jenner.