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Sport(s)
  
Ice hockey

1989–1994
  
1974–1978
  
Name
  
George Gwozdecky


Position(s)
  
Left Wing

Role
  
Ice hockey coach

1981–1984
  
Titles
  
Head coach


Born
  
July 17, 1953 (age 71) Thunder Bay, ON, CAN (
1953-07-17
)

1984–1989
  
Michigan State (assistant)

Books
  
Hockey Drills for Passing & Receiving

Denver coach george gwozdecky march 27 2011


George Gwozdecky (born July 17, 1953) is a Canadian ice hockey coach. He resigned as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL) in June 2015. He has recently accepted a job as the head hockey coach at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, CO.

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He was the head coach for the University of Denver Pioneers hockey team for 19 seasons, from 1994 until 2013. The Pioneers won 2 national championships (2004/2005) under his guidance, and won at least 20 games in each of the last 12 seasons in which he coached them. He joined the Pioneers as head coach in 1994.

He is a member of the prestigious Miami University "Cradle of Coaches", and is the only person to win the NCAA National Championship as a player (with Wisconsin in 1977), assistant coach (at Michigan State in 1986), and head coach with Denver (2004 and 2005).

He is a native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and is married to his wife, Bonnie. The couple's 23-year-old daughter Adrienne, attended the University of Denver and is a first year law student at the Georgetown University Law Center, in Washington, D.C.

Denver hockey head coach george gwozdecky at north dakota booster luncheon part 1


References

George Gwozdecky Wikipedia


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