Helen Resor played in high school at Noble & Greenough Prep School in Massachusetts where she was coached by her uncle, Tom Resor. She then played at Yale, as a defenseman, where she was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award as the nation’s top hockey player in her senior season, graduating in 2009. She played for the US at the 2005 and 2008 World Championships. Her sister, Jane, also played ice hockey at Yale. Resor was on the US Team into 2009, but was one of the final cuts for the 2010 USA Women’s hockey team for the Vancouver Olympics.