{"id":24093,"date":"2001-09-07T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2001-09-08T04:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2001\/09\/07\/whitehead-returns-to-maine-as-assistant\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:16","slug":"whitehead-returns-to-maine-as-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2001\/09\/07\/whitehead-returns-to-maine-as-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitehead Returns to Maine as Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"
Maine announced the hiring of Tim Whitehead as an assistant coach today. Whitehead, a former assistant under head coach Shawn Walsh, returns to Maine after spending the last 10 years at UMass-Lowell, the last five as head coach. He fills the vacancy created by the departure of Gene Reilly to the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited to go back to Maine, and I’m looking forward to working with Shawn and Grant [Standbrook] again,” said Whitehead. “I love to coach, and this is a great coaching opportunity for me. We have a lot of family in Maine, and my wife and I will really enjoy being close to family.”<\/p>\n
The addition of Whitehead gives the Black Bears two experienced former Division I coaches; Standbrook coached five years at Dartmouth<\/a> and has been an assistant for five different national champions. This experience is especially important given Walsh’s battle to defeat cancer over the past 16 months.<\/p>\n “Tim will help us keep consistency in our program,” said Walsh. “He knows our system, and he knows the league inside-out. He’s a top-notch teacher and coach that will add a lot to the success of our program. Personally, I can’t wait to see him on the ice with our team.”<\/p>\n Whitehead served as an assistant at Maine during the 1990-91 season before moving on to Lowell, where he was an assistant for five years before assuming the head role.<\/p>\n In his five years as the River Hawks’ head coach<\/a>, Whitehead went 76-93-11. He was honored as a finalist for the American Hockey Coaches Association (ACHA) Spencer Penrose Coach of the Year Award in 1997 and 2001, and was also runner-up for Hockey East Coach of the Year honors in 1997 and 2001.<\/p>\n Following a year of uncertainty over his status, Whitehead and Lowell athletic director Dana Skinner could not agree on a new contract following last season, and the two sides parted ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whitehead, 40, graduated from Hamilton College in 1985 with a bachelor’s Maine announced the hiring of Tim Whitehead as an assistant coach today. Whitehead, a former assistant under head coach Shawn Walsh, returns to Maine after spending the last 10 years at UMass-Lowell, the last five as head coach. He fills the vacancy created by the departure of Gene Reilly to the Grand Rapids Griffins of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\ndegree in government, and earned a master’s degree in education from Maine
\nin 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"