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Women's Ice Hockey
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- joakim_flygh@brown.edu
Jaokim Flygh joined the Brown Women's Ice Hockey staff as an assistant coach in May of 2025.
Flygh joined Brown after spending the last season as an assistant coach for the Harvard women's hockey team.
Flygh joined the staff in Cambridge after a successful ten-year tenure as the head coach of the Yale women's ice hockey program from 2009-2019. In 2014-15, Flygh led the Bulldogs to their best winning percentage in eight seasons, finishing with the second-most overall wins in school history (15). Yale also made its second straight ECAC Hockey Championship playoff appearance under Flygh after the team tied the school record for wins in conference games with 12 and scored the second-most goals in a season in school history (93). In 2013-14 the Bulldogs made their first ECAC Hockey Championship playoff appearance since 2008, and their first postseason win since 2005.
In Flygh's time at Yale, the team was honored in multiple ways both on and off the ice. Under Flygh's guidance, multiple players were selected to All-ECAC and All-Ivy League teams while a handful of his student-athletes made various National and Olympic squads. Yale has also had a Hockey Humanitarian Award finalist in each of Flygh's first three seasons. Additionally, the team has had three different players win the Sarah Devens Award, a joint award for leadership that includes both ECAC Hockey and Hockey East. As a team, Yale was named the Dave Solomon Memorial Sports Persons of the Year by the New Haven Register for 2011. The award honored the Bulldogs for their community service efforts, including the annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Yale (held in memory of Mandi Schwartz '10 (1988-2011) and her battle with cancer) and "Yale Bulldog PAWS (Pediatric Alliance With Student-athletes)", a program that pairs Yale athletic teams with pediatric patients from Yale-New Haven Hospital to serve as a support group.
Flygh’s nine-year career as an assistant coach prior to Yale was marked by consistent success; teams he coached for had a combined winning percentage of .701 (176-69-21) and he was a part of six seasons of 20 or more wins. Flygh went to Yale after three seasons as an assistant at Harvard where he helped the Crimson to a 71-20-8 overall record, two NCAA tournament appearances, two ECAC Hockey regular season championships, two Beanpot tournament championships and one ECAC Hockey tournament championship. He was a part of Harvard’s perfect 22-0-0 ECAC Hockey regular season in 2007-08, the same year the Crimson advanced to the NCAA’s Frozen Four. In 2009-10, Harvard won its 13th Beanpot title and earned its eighth berth in the NCAA tournament, going 14-4-3 on home ice.
Flygh helped the Crimson to a 19-10-3 overall record in 2008-09, as Harvard won 12 straight ECAC Hockey contests to conclude the regular season. Flygh and assistant coach Melanie Ruzzi guided the team to a 3-0-1 record in the first four games of season, while head coach Katey Stone coached Team USA to the gold medal at the Four Nations Cup.
In 2007-08, Flygh led Harvard to three victories against Boston College, St. Lawrence and Clarkson during Stone’s tenure as the head coach of the United States Under-18 Team at the World Championships in January 2008. During that year, Harvard became the second team in ECAC Hockey history to win all of its games against league teams (22-0-0). The squad also won the Beanpot, ECAC regular-season and ECAC tournament titles en route to the program’s fifth Frozen Four appearance.
Flygh’s off-ice responsibilities at Harvard include coordinating recruiting, monitoring the squad’s academic progress and acting as a liaison between the team and the school’s admissions office.
Flygh joined the Crimson staff in 2007 after spending three seasons as an assistant at Minnesota Duluth. There he worked with the Bulldog defensemen and penalty-kill unit. In Flygh’s three seasons in Duluth, the Bulldogs made the NCAA tournament every year, advanced to the NCAA title game in 2007 and posted a total record of 72-26-9. Over Flygh’s tenure, UMD ranked fourth nationally in goals allowed per game and third in penalty killing. During his first season in 2004-05, the UMD penalty kill allowed just 16 goals in 206 power plays, operating at a 92.2-percent efficiency.
Before taking the position at Minnesota Duluth, Flygh worked three seasons as an assistant coach, including one as a graduate assistant, with the men’s ice hockey team at New England College. He helped the Pilgrims to a combined 53-23-4 record and three second-place league finishes during his three years behind the bench.
Flygh was a standout defenseman as an undergraduate at New Englandand was the Pilgrims’ defensive player of the year. He went on to play professional hockey in Sweden for the Lysekil Vikings.
A native of Tyringe, Sweden, Flygh is a 2000 graduate of New England College with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology. He earned a master’s degree in organizational management from New England in 2002.
