Guy Gadowsky is the first head coach of the Penn State Varsity Men's Ice Hockey team of the modern era. Coach Gadowsky has spent the past seven years leading Princeton's resurgence, which includes NCAA Championship berths in 2008 and '09 and the 2008 ECAC Hockey Championship. He earned the Inside College Hockey National Coach of the year Award in 2008.

A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, he was head coach at Alaska-Fairbanks for five years prior to taking the reins of the Princeton program and has earned league coach of the year honors at each of his three head coaching posts.

Gadowsky took over a Princeton program that had won a combined eight games in the two seasons prior to his arrival for the 2004-05 campaign. During his initial five seasons, the Tigers improved their win total each year, topped by a program record 22 victories in 2008-09. Gadowsky led Princeton to two of its three all-time NCAA Championship berths in the 110 years of the program, in 2008 and 2009.

As a collegiate head coach, Gadowsky has helped develop nine players who have played in the National Hockey League, including three of his former Princeton players who have played in the NHL this season: Mike Moore (San Jose), Darroll Powe (Philadelphia) and Kevin Westgarth (Los Angeles). A 2011 Princeton senior, AHCA second-team All-American Taylor Fedun, signed with the Edmonton Oilers, after the Tigers' season was completed.

Among some of Gadowsky's accomplishments as Princeton's head coach:

Gadowsky re-built the Alaska-Fairbanks program from 1999-2000 through 2003-04. Taking over a program that lost at least 20 games in each of its five seasons as CCHA members, by Gadowsky's third season the Nanooks were 22-12-3 and ranked No. 11 nationally at the end of the 2001-02 campaign. He was a finalist for AHCA National Coach of the Year honors and was the CCHA Coach of the Year in 2002. Alaska-Fairbanks won 15 and 16 games, respectively, the next two years and hosted the first round CCHA playoffs twice for the first time in program history under Gadowsky's direction.

One of 10 members of the NCAA's Regional Advisory Committee, Gadowsky was head coach and Director of Hockey Operations for the WCHL's Fresno Falcons for three years. He led Fresno to the WCHL playoffs all three years, was named WCHL Coach of the Year in 1987 and was the franchise's winningest coach when he left for Alaska-Fairbanks.

Gadowsky played at Colorado College from 1986-89, earning a degree in economics. As a senior, he was the team captain and was selected winner of the team's Rodman Award, presented for Outstanding Leadership and Sportsmanship. Gadowsky was a three-time WCHA All-Academic Team member.

Gadowsky played professionally for seven years upon graduation, including stops with Richmond (ECHL), San Diego (IHL) and St. John's and Prince Edward Island of the American Hockey League. He also played with the Canadian National Team for a portion of the 1993-94 season and played professionally in Sweden, Holland Austria.

In 1995-96, Gadowsky joined Fresno and was selected the WCHL's Most Valuable Player and a first-team All-Star. He scored 52 goals and had 29 assists in 51 games as a player/coach, retiring as a player to become the Falcons' full-time head coach in 1996-97.

Gadowsky and his wife, Melissa, have two sons, Mac and Magnus, and a daughter, Mia.

Fisher just rounded out his sixth season as an assistant coach with the Princeton men's hockey team. Prior to that, he spent five years with the Omaha Lancers' coaching staff. While there, Fisher helped guide the team to a 2001 Clark Cup championship as well as Anderson Cup regular season championships in 2002 and 2005. In Omaha, he served as the team's recruiting coordinator and academic advisor, in addition to other responsibilities of on-ice coaching, video breakdown and game analysis.

During his college coaching career, Fisher helped recruit and mentor NHL first round draft picks Keith Ballard and Nick Petrecki, seven current NHL players, including Matt Carle and Paul Stastny, and USHL Goaltender of the Year and USA Hockey Junior Player of the Year Jeff Lerg. All told, Fisher has helped develop 12 NHL draft picks.

Fisher served as associate coach for Team USHL at the USHL Prospects/All-Star game in 2006, his final season in Omaha. He has also been a part of USA Hockey Select Festivals for the past two years.

Fisher's coaching career began in the Minnesota public school system as a coach of both football and baseball at Cherry High School. Prior to his arrival in Omaha, Fisher served two seasons with St. Cloud State University's hockey program as an undergraduate assistant. A native of the Zim, Minn., he finished his 11th year coaching at Minnesota Hockey Camps last summer.

A 2000 graduate of St. Cloud State University with a degree in communications, Fisher also played two seasons at Hibbing Community College, participating in the NJCAA national tournament during his time there.

Lindsay is coming off a four-year stint with Princeton's men's hockey staff and is a 2001 Williams graduate. Upon graduation, Lindsay coached for one season at Utica College and spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Hobart College. He then held a volunteer assistant post at Colorado College for a year before serving as an assistant coach at Robert Morris prior to going to Princeton in 2007. While at Robert Morris, he was the team's video coordinator and recruited several different junior hockey leagues in North America. He also handled video responsibilities at CC, also holding pre-scouting and on-ice responsibilities.

At Williams, he was a recipient of the William E. McCormick "Coaches" Award as a senior, which is presented each year to the member of the hockey team who best exemplifies the qualities and ideals for which Coach McCormick stood during his years behind the bench: Leadership, loyalty, a selfless devotion to the team, a youthful delight in the game of hockey, and above all a strong commitment to community service.

Josh Hand joined the the Penn State Icers Hockey Staff in 2010-2011. Coach Hand works with all aspects of the Icers program, as well as serving as the teams Recruiting Coordinator and Video Analyst. Coach Hand assists in the development of ice practices and game strategies. Prior to joining the PSU staff Coach Hand spent two seasons as Assistant Coach and Hockey Director at Texas A&M University where the Aggies captured their school's first ever birth into a regional tournament, going 20-8-2 on the season. The 2009-2010 season was the first time the state of Texas ever sent a collegiate representative to a regional hockey tournament.

Hand has also been a part of many top coaching staffs, including with Mitch Korn (Nashville Predators), Graeme Townsend (Toronto Maple Leafs) and Terry Ruskowski (Laredo Bucks). Hand's playing career consisted of four years (2004-2008) at Concordia College (MIAC) where he played both ice hockey and football. Coach Hand has a B.A. in communications and political science.