Kate Buesser is an American-born women’s ice hockey player with the Connecticut Whale of the NWHL. At the NCAA level, she accumulated 92 points with the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey program from 2008-12.
Buesser competed with the Boston Blades and captured the 2013 Clarkson Cup championship. In 2014, she would appear in the finals of the 2014 Clarkson Cup with the Blades, only to be defeated in overtime by the Toronto Furies.
On December 31, 2015, Buesser was one of three Connecticut Whale players (including Shannon Doyle and Kaleigh Fratkin) that were loaned to the Boston Pride. The three donned the Pride jerseys for one day and participated in the 2015 Women's Winter Classic, the first outdoor professional women’s hockey game.