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DIII Coaching Changes

Brendon Knight, the longtime Assistant/Associate Head Coach at Syracuse has joined Utica as an assistant coach.

At the DIII level, Knight was an assistant at his alma mater of SUNY Potsdam from 2002 to 2005. In 2006 Knight would become the Head Coach of Hamilton, where he would lead the Continentals for six seasons prior to his hire at Syracuse.
 
Hood College announced the hiring of Josh Funk as the inaugural Head Coach for their new program that launches in Fall 2024.

Funk was the head coach at Plymouth State for 2 seasons from 2020-22 before being replaced by Mollie Fitzpatrick. He has assistant coaching experience at D1 RMU and DIII St. Catherine's.

Hood is in Frederick, MD and will likely join the UCHC where the MAC ice hockey schools play. Or the MAC may break away into a seperate DIII conference.


https://gomacsports.com/news/2023/1/3/funk-hired-to-start-hood-womens-ice-hockey-program.aspx
 
Maureen Greiner is out at Concordia after five seasons (including the covid year). Don't know if it was mutual, or who left who, but nevertheless, the Cobbers will be looking for an new coach. The former St. Thomas assistant and player tried to bring the brute force game to Moorhead, trying to play even more physical than the rest of the MIAC, which is hard to do. Didn't quite lead to enough wins though. Greiner compiled a record of 35-64-6 over her tenure with the only MIAC playoff appearance coming in the 21-22 season where the entire conference qualified due to cancellations throughout the season. CC finished 6th in the MIAC her first year while then finishing T-7th, 8th and 10th in the MIAC her last three seasons (not including the covid year). That might have something to do with the change.
 
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Scott_TG said:
Hood College announced the hiring of Josh Funk as the inaugural Head Coach for their new program that launches in Fall 2024.

Funk was the head coach at Plymouth State for 2 seasons from 2020-22 before being replaced by Mollie Fitzpatrick. He has assistant coaching experience at D1 RMU and DIII St. Catherine's.

Hood is in Frederick, MD and will likely join the UCHC where the MAC ice hockey schools play. Or the MAC may break away into a seperate DIII conference.


https://gomacsports.com/news/2023/1/3/funk-hired-to-start-hood-womens-ice-hockey-program.aspx
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Where the heck are they going to play? The rink in Frederick is in need of some serious upkeep. Internet is spotty,the snackbar is only open during public sessions and the stands are good for our local HS league, but college?

Think of it as a poorer Reisterstown-and I like Reisterstown.
 
joecct said:
Where the heck are they going to play? The rink in Frederick is in need of some serious upkeep. Internet is spotty,the snackbar is only open during public sessions and the stands are good for our local HS league, but college?

Think of it as a poorer Reisterstown-and I like Reisterstown.
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Have you been to Hobart/William Smith?! (At least the snackbar is open for games, but the food there is wretched. The bathrooms are small and incapable of handling crowds. And the stands aren't even good enough for a local youth league, never mind a HS league.)

It's not like this situation is unique in D3.
 
Umass Boston has posted an opening for the head coach position. Looks like former Cardinal Danielle Blanchard is moving on.
 
SHockey98 said:
Maureen Greiner is out at Concordia after five seasons (including the covid year). Don't know if it was mutual, or who left who, but nevertheless, the Cobbers will be looking for an new coach. The former St. Thomas assistant and player tried to bring the brute force game to Moorhead, trying to play even more physical than the rest of the MIAC, which is hard to do. Didn't quite lead to enough wins though. Greiner compiled a record of 35-64-6 over her tenure with the only MIAC playoff appearance coming in the 21-22 season where the entire conference qualified due to cancellations throughout the season. CC finished 6th in the MIAC her first year while then finishing T-7th, 8th and 10th in the MIAC her last three seasons (not including the covid year). That might have something to do with the change.
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I have heard that Greiner is gone, too. It's interesting that Concordia still lists Greiner as the head coach on their web site. It seems like there is usually a press release thanking her for her efforts and that a change in leadership is happening and a national search is underway.
 
Concordia Moorhead has (re)hired Jason Gregoire as head coach of the Cobber women's team. He previously served as the women's head coach there from 2014-2018, guiding them to a 47-46-12 record in that four-year span. Gregoire stayed in the area as the director of youth hockey in West Fargo and then Moorhead.
 
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Middlebury has posted their f/t assistant coaching position. I wonder where Ashley Salerno winds up...
 
Not a change but Augsburg assistant Sanya Sandhal has been named the goalie coach for the 2024 U18 Women's World team under HC Liz Keady-Norton (Dartmouth), Brianna Decker (SSM) and Meredith Roth (Holy Cross).
 
Between Elmira's rumoured financial woes and coaching instability (interconnected?) it is a wonder the team continues to succeed as it always has.

There is supposedly 14 incoming players (though only 4 publicly known commits I could find) under Bobrowski this fall. If all of them show up with this change of plan will be interesting to watch.
 
He may very well be, but what happened here to a premier DIII women's program is super sketchy. From what I heard he was preparing to blow up most of the roster and bring in a ton of players to remake Elmira in his own image hence the transfers I'm hearing about (including some I was asked to keep to myself).

He may very well be the next great women's hockey coach but in the context of Elmira trying to survive as a school the administration would have been better served with a stabilizing presence. It's not like the program needs a great tactician, it's a self propelling machine. They lost a HC after the first weekend of the season a few years back and kept on chugging, just like they did with the late-offseason change last year.

I think they would have been better served pursuing an alumna like Ashley Magill or Rachael Grampp but maybe they did and neither wanted to make that move...

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Wow… I thought Bobrowski was a rising star. interested if he’s headed anywhere else.
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I would expect him to land somewhere soon and I would not be surprised to see him back at Hamline. The Whitney Colbert experiment does not seem to be working out too well.
 
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