Stan Moore, an assistant coach at Colgate University for the past four years, is Union's new head hockey coach and director of Achilles Rink.
The announcement was made in mid-June by Athletic Director Richard Sakala after a nine-person search committee had interviewed seven candidates.
“Stan has an excellent background in both coaching and recruiting at highly selective academic institutions,” Sakala said. “I'm confident he will be able to continue to strengthen our program as we enter our sixth season in the Eastern College Athletic Conference.”
Moore said the Union team “already has established itself around the ECAC as one that has a great amount of determination and a tremendous work ethic.
“Union offers a great opportunity to recruit quality players,” he continued. “The College's academic reputation, the beauty of the campus, and the enthusiastic support of the students and community-all will more than attract the interest of qualified and talented recruits to join what I see as a solid nucleus of players.”
Moore, a graduate of Oswego (N.Y.) State University, began his coaching career at the Division I level at Brown University,
where he served as junior varsity coach and then assistant coach. He also was an assistant at Providence College before joining Colgate in 1992. Colgate Coach Don Vaughan said Moore's recruiting and coaching expertise played a large part in his program's “steady progress on
the ice and in the classroom the past four years.”
Moore's reputation is one of a “player's coach,” and the four team members on the search committee were unanimous in their support of him.
Moore is the fifth head coach since hockey was revived at the College in 1975. He succeeds Bruce Delventhal, who resigned in April.