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Re: Coaching changes 2020/2021
Post by jg2112 » Wed Dec 16, 2020 12:05 pm

MNHockeyFan wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:51 am
From Gopher Women's Hockey "Penalty Box Post":

Pannek joins coaching staff at Benilde-St. Margaret's –

As announced on Twitter on Monday, Gopher Women's Hockey alumna and Olympic gold medalist Kelly Pannek has joined the girls' hockey coaching staff at her high school alma mater, Benilde-St. Margaret's School in St. Louis Park. We send our congratulations and best wishes to Kelly on this opportunity.

Non-controversial prediction: Pannek will be named the head coach at BSM the day after the end of the 2020/21 season.

Kelly Pannek is now the co-coach at BSM, with Kevin Gray.

Not too far off...

Add Hill-Murray to the list.

jg2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:27 am Add Hill-Murray to the list.

I'd like to hear the story. It was her first year and she was the head coach in waiting.

Does anyone know if there is a composite list of girls HS programs who are looking for coaches this off-season (much the same way the list has been compiled for the boys programs)?

Shawn Reid to Hill-Murray. A good get for my squad.

https://www.mngirlshockeyhub.com/news_a ... ow/1173047

With his new job across town requiring him to drive into the rising and setting sun most days, Shawn Reid invested in a pair of sunglasses.

Reid, the longtime successful Blake girls’ hockey coach, accepted the same job at Hill-Murray. His against-the-grain commutes will take him from his Minneapolis home to the Maplewood private school.

The sun won’t be the only light on Reid’s face. Expectations are high for the merger of winning coach and program. In Reid’s eight seasons at Blake, the Bears posted a 192-33-10 record. They won four Class 1A state titles in a five-season span from 2013-17.

His final season in 2019-20 was the only one in which Reid’s teams didn’t win at least 22 games. Blake won 82% of its games from 2012-2020.

Meanwhile, Hill-Murray emerged as an elite program. The Pioneers won consecutive Class 2A state titles in 2014 and 2015. And they have reached the state tournament four times in the past six seasons.

Reid, who also took a guidance and counseling job at Hill-Murray, measures success in additional ways. Though he took last season off from coaching, Reid gleaned insight from his Blake peers as associate athletic director.

“I learned how other coaches build the culture in their programs and how they defined success,” said Reid, who was hired in May. “Beyond the wins and losses, I’ve always tried to prepare these young women to be successful in college and beyond.”

On the ice, Reid knows the challenge of the big-school postseason grind. The Blake program opted up to Class 2A but got placed in loaded Section 6, a group that included Edina. Section final loses to the Hornets prevented Blake from reaching the 2018 and 2019 state tournaments.

Hill-Murray, in Section 4, competes with defending section champion Stillwater, a solid White Bear Lake program and newcomer Gentry Academy, which reached the Class 1A title game last season.

“We hope to be peaking at the end of the season,” Reid said. “I had a pretty positive experience at Blake with the players and building on a great culture that was in place and I’m excited for that challenge at Hill-Murray.”