Holy Cross Athletics

Christina Putigna is in her third season as an assistant coach with the Holy Cross women’s ice hockey team in 2026-2027.

During the 2025-2026 campaign, Putigna helped Holy Cross to the Hockey East semifinals for the first time in program history, with the team posting an overall record of 19-13-3 and a 10-11-3 mark in Hockey East play. The Crusaders squad broke school records for the most Hockey East victories (10) and most Hockey East points (37) in a single season, while their 19 overall wins tied for the fifth-most in program history. Holy Cross also earned the first national ranking for any women’s program in school history, while Naemi Herzig won a bronze medal playing for Switzerland at the 2026 Olympics.

In 2024-2025, Putigna helped the team to 10 overall victories and 25 points in the conference standings.

Putigna came to Holy Cross after spending three seasons as an assistant coach at Worcester State University from 2021-2024, helping lead the team to three straight ECHA Championships in 2022, 2023 and 2024. During her time at Worcester State, she also served as a skill development lead and head coach for the Militia Hockey Club (2020-2024) where she prepared, organized and led skill based sessions to prepare athletes to be successful competitors through focused and effective training.

Before and during her coaching career, Putigna played professional hockey for the Boston Pride from 2019-2023. With the Pride, she won the regular season championship in 2020 and the Isobel Cup championship in 2021 and 2022. Putigna was also the team’s leading scorer in 2021, while being selected to play in the NWHL All-Star Game from 2019-2022. 

Putigna earned her bachelor’s degree in health policy and management from Providence College in 2019. She was a four-year member of the Friars’ ice hockey team, serving as an assistant captain in the 2018-2019 season and scoring 110 career points. She also received two invitations to the Hockey Canada Development Team Camp and was selected to the under-22 Canadian roster. 

Putigna’s Playing Career
• Played for the Boston Pride (2019-2023)
• Leading scorer for the Pride (2021)
• Selected for the NWHL All-Star Game (2019-2022)
• Selected to Canada Under-22 Development Team (2016-2017)
• Served as an Assistant Captain at Providence (2018-2019)
• Named a Hockey East Top Performer nine times and Rookie of the Week three times
• Named to the Hockey East All-Tournament Team (2019)