{"id":88802,"date":"2018-11-01T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=88802"},"modified":"2018-11-01T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:23:14","slug":"bowdoin-names-bowling-green-graduate-whitmore-new-womens-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2018\/11\/01\/bowdoin-names-bowling-green-graduate-whitmore-new-womens-assistant-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowdoin names Bowling Green graduate Whitmore new women’s assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bowdoin has announced the hiring of Derek Whitmore as an assistant coach of the women’s program.<\/p>\n
A 2008 graduate of Bowling Green, Whitmore will be breaking into the collegiate coaching ranks after a decade-long professional career in the United States, Canada and Europe.<\/p>\n
His playing career included five years in the AHL and a two-game stint in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres in 2011-12. He was a team captain at Bowling Green and received numerous team awards during his career, including being named both the Portland Pirates’ and Rochester Americans’ AHL Man of the Year.<\/p>\n
Whitmore has worked in youth coaching over the last eight years, serving as a strength and conditioning coach and on-ice instructor for Stride Envy Hockey since 2010. He has also spent the last two years working as a personal trainer for collegiate and professional athletes at Beyond Strength.<\/p>\n
Whitmore graduated from BGSU with a degree in Exercise Science.<\/p>\n
In 143 games with the Falcons, Whitmore recorded 70 goals and 32 assists for 102 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bowdoin has announced the hiring of Derek Whitmore as an assistant coach of the women’s program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":88803,"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":[901],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n