Loyola Varsity Girls

from 2022 Loyola Hockey Club Yearbook

by LAHockey

Loyola Junior Varsity 2

2022-2023

DJ LA VARRE – Head Coach GINA GUZZI – Assistant Coach

Gina has played hockey for 19 years and has been a coach for nine years. She recently coached Learn to Skate, hockey camps, squirts, U12 and U14 girls teams at Franklin Park for three years. Gina also coached girls U12, U14, U16 at Glenview for 4 years, ran off-ice training for the U16 girls team and summer conditioning. She is excited for her third season at Loyola.

CARLA HOLZGRAFE – Assistant Coach

Carla played AAA girls hockey for Team Illinois, Chicago Mission and CYA, while double-rostering as captain of the Loyola Academy Girls Varsity Team. Her Junior and Senior Year of High School, Carla was a member of USA Hockey’s U18 National Development Program at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY. Carla went on to two DI national championships at the University of WisconsinMadison, and received the Badger Community Service and Most Inspiring Player awards.

Carla has coached girls hockey at the AAA, AA, and High School levels. She coached CYA to USA Hockey Nationals and helped guide the New Trier Girls Varsity Trevians to back-to-back State Championship appearances in 2014 and 2015, winning in 2015. Carla was the Girls Director and Coach for the USA Hockey ADM Model Club, the Admirals, and the Chicago Jets Hockey Club. Carla has also coached at the collegiate level; she was the Associate Head Coach of Robert Morris University’s Women’s Ice Hockey team and the Assistant Coach of DePaul University's Men's Ice Hockey team.

Carla enjoys giving back to Hockey by coaching the Chicago Blackhawks Blind Hockey Team and serving as a USA Hockey Coaching Education Program Instructor. Carla is thrilled to return to the Loyola Hockey Program for her first season as a coach!