“I was just looking for a new challenge,” said Jordan in an interview with APX Hockey reporter Sydney Wolf. “I was just looking for something new and a new experience, maybe something a little further away from home, just to really immerse myself and to focus on everything that I wanted and the development that I wanted.” 

Jordan, who grew up just outside of Hartford, Connecticut, entered the portal after two successful seasons with Boston College. She took her time in deciding where to take her hockey future and took visits to the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, both in the WCHA, before eventually settling on the Gophers. 

“The coaches were awesome, we were able to sit down with them and do some film sessions and it was cool just to learn the ways in which they coach,” she said about why she decided to take her collegiate career to Minneapolis. “I was able to share with them what I look for and the kind of feedback I like and what kind of player I am so that they could tell me how they see me fitting in - and obviously the facilities were great too.”

A talented offensive-defender, Jordan led all Boston College blueliners in 2024-25 in goals, assists, and overall points. She did so as a freshman in 2023-24, too. So - why did a player as talented as herself decide to transfer besides the opportunity to experience something new? Well, the original coach that recruited her to campus in Chestnut Hill is no longer with the Eagles, so that’s likely a big part of it. 

Jordan originally made a verbal commitment to the Eagles back in the ninth grade - which was before the NCAA officially changed the rules which makes female hockey players now wait until the summer before their junior year to announce verbal commitments. Jordan participated in a showcase event down in Nashville in middle school and talked with a bunch of coaches at the event, including Courtney Kennedy - who was the Associate Head Coach at the time for Boston College. 

“We were able to pick each other's brains about hockey and I thought that was really cool,” said Jordan about her first impressions of Kennedy. “When I got home from that [the showcase] we did a few phone calls and then I was able to get to BC’s campus and I fell in love with it and how it wasn’t super close to home but it wasn’t super far away either.” 

She wound up making a verbal commitment not long after and the rest is history. Jordan eventually made her way to Boston College for her freshman year but Kennedy wound up departing the program after that season to join the Boston Fleet of the PWHL as a skills coach and to work with the Team USA U18s program. Whenever there is a coaching change in the NCAA that tends to be a big reason for many collegiate athletes to try their luck in the transfer portal and to find a new fit elsewhere. In 2024-25, the Eagles were led by longtime Head Coach Katie Crowley and assistant coaches Kate Leary and Max Gavin.

Jordan, from Berlin, Connecticut, is a highly regarded defensive prospect who competed in two U18 Women’s World Championships, winning a silver and bronze medal, before her time in the NCAA. A leader both on and off the ice, the 5-foot-7 skater wore an ‘A’ for Team USA at the competition in 2023 in Sweden and was a member of the ‘U18 WJC All-Star Team’ that year, too. 

“My first year [at the U18 tournament], some of the names on that roster are girls who have gone on to really high levels,” said Jordan about her experience competing for the U.S. with current collegiate stars such as Laila Edwards, Tessa Janecke and Kirsten Simms - just to name a few. “They were a little bit older than me so being a first year was a lot of looking up to them and practicing against them and just getting ready for the tournament with them - it was a really cool experience. Being able to come back the next year and be an assistant captain and really be able to have one year under my belt and lead the girls coming in was a great experience.”  

Competing at the international tournament with some of the very best athletes in the world is one that likely helped Jordan make a quick adjustment into college hockey when she joined the Eagles in the fall of 2023. She posted 18 points through 36 games played as a freshman for a squad that went 15-14-7 overall, which led the defensive core in overall scoring, and was named to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team. As a sophomore, Jordan increased her output to 24 points through 36 contests, which led the d-core in points yet again, and the Eagles increased their record to 21-13-2. 

“Coming in this past year [in 2024-25], you have a whole year under you and you feel a little bit better and there wasn’t really that adjustment period at the beginning of the season,” she said. “It was more like from the first game I was ready to go and training in the summer helped prepare me for what was coming. This year was great and I was able to step in and I didn’t have a letter but I felt like a leader and was able to help the freshman who came in and I had a bigger voice in the locker room and that was cool too.”

And now, the 20-year-old from Connecticut is preparing to make the move to Minneapolis to play her next two seasons of college hockey. Jordan will join a strong defensive core alongside athletes like Chloe Primerano, Sydney Morrow, Nelli Laitinen and Gracie Graham, among others. She’ll have a few familiar faces on the roster this upcoming year as well since she has previously competed with current Gophers Maddie Kaiser and Ava Lindsay and incoming freshman Bella Fanale and Layla Hemp on Team USA. 

Jordan joins two other transfers to the Minnesota roster this fall in Jamie Nelson (previously of Minnesota State) and Sarah Paul (previously of Princeton). There will be seven total incoming freshmen to the roster as well in 2025-26 in Sydney Bailey, Olivia Kortan, Sienna D’Alessandro, Avery Hovland, Tereza Plosova and the aforementioned Hemp and Fanale. 

"Molly is a very skilled defender with great vision and feet," said Gopher Head Coach Brad Frost in a previous press release from the school. "We are looking forward to bringing her into our program and are excited to see her experience and passion flourish in WCHA."

Jordan says that as an offensive-defender her strengths lie in her ability to see the ice and break the puck out quickly in the d-zone, her strong hockey IQ, and the way that she can make plays in the o-zone. She is an athletic skater who comes from a very athletic family considering that her father was a hockey goaltender at Hobart College, her mother played both basketball and softball at the Wentworth Institute of Technology and her brother plays lacrosse at Nichols College. 

The Connecticut native has had a busy offseason so far. She was one of 12 defenders invited to participate at the 2025 USA Hockey Goaltending Camp in May and then she spent a little bit of time in Minneapolis getting a few preseason things done and meeting some of her teammates but she is now back home at the moment until she officially makes the move out to Dinkytown later this summer. She was previously majoring in Applied Psychology with a minor in Business at Boston College and she is planning on staying with her psychology major (likely with a slightly different title at Minnesota) and for sure her business minor at the ‘U’. 

“Obviously, there’s always the goal of a national championship,” she said about what she’d like to accomplish with the Gophers. “It'd be great to bring a championship back to Minnesota and that would make for a really cool first year for sure.” 

Watch out for Jordan on the ice this fall at the University of Minnesota where she is likely to become an immediate impact skater.