University of Massachusetts-Amherst Men's Ice Hockey

2019 Spencer Penrose Award winner Greg Carvel enters his 11th season as head coach of the Minutemen in 2026-27. He guided UMass to back-to-back Hockey East T...

Hunter Diehl was hired as the director of hockey operations prior to the start of the 2024-25 season. He enters his second season with the Massachusetts hock...

Josh Penn enters his 21th season as the equipment manager for the Minutemen hockey team and was named the Director of Equipment Operations for all of UMass A...

Marc Paquet joined the University of Massachusetts sports medicine staff in August 2017. His primary focus is the day-to-day care and treatment of the UMass ice hockey program. Paquet came to UMass following three seasons working for the Calgary Flames organization. From 2014-17, he served as the head athletic trainer for Calgary's American Hockey League affiliates, the Adirondack Flames and the Stockton Heat. Prior to his time in the AHL, Paquet worked for the Everett Silvertips of the Western Hockey League, where he was the club’s head athletic trainer from 2011-14. Paquet earned his Master of Education in Kinesiology from Bowling Green in 2011. While at BGSU, he served for two years as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for men’s soccer and softball, in addition to being an assistant for hockey and football. The Scarborough, Maine, native received his Bachelor of Science degree in Athletic Training from the University of New England (Biddeford, Maine) in 2009. Paquet currently resides in Belchertown, Mass., with his wife, Renee and sons, Alec and Luc. Updated: September 25, 2025

Mike Vaughan came to the University of Massachusetts as a sports performance coach in September 2023 after serving as the director of women's ice hockey operations at Merrimack since the program's inaugural season in 2015-16 and served as the team's strength and conditioning coach during his tenure with the Warriors. Vaughan worked with the USA Women's National Hockey Team as an assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2014-16 and was the strength coach for the IIHF U18 Gold Medalist team. He served as a strength and conditioning/nutrition intern for the 2014 USA Women's Olympic Hockey Silver Medalist Team in Sochi. Vaughan also spent time as a strength coach at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning and interned at Northeastern as a part of their strength and conditioning staff. He boasts a certification from the NSCA as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist. He also is USAW Level 1 Sports Performance Coach, FMS Level 1 Coach and American Red Cross CPR/AED & First Aid certified. Vaughan is a 2013 graduate of Fitchburg State with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise & Sport Science, where he played football. He also graduated with a M.S. in Exercise and Sports Science from Merrimack in the spring of 2018.

Nolan Gluchowski joined the University of Massachusetts hockey staff as a volunteer assistant coach in January 2021. He was promoted to assistant coach in Ap...

University of Massachusetts hockey alumnus Steve Mastalerz returned to his alma mater to join head coach Greg Carvel’s staff as Director of Player of Develop...