Former Northland girls’s hockey coach Bobrowski employed for identical job with Hamline, ‘has a deep understanding of what it means to be a Piper’

Hamline has named Jake Bobrowski the brand new head coach for the ladies’s hockey group.

Throughout the 2024-25 season, Bobrowski served as the pinnacle coach for the Northland girls’s group. He had beforehand been introduced as the pinnacle coach for Beloit for the 2025-26 season after Northland closed on the finish of final season.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Jake again to Hamline to function our head girls’s hockey coach,” stated Hamline assistant VP/athletic director Alex Focke in an announcement. “He has a deep understanding of what it means to be a Piper. He returns to us with nice teaching expertise and I’m excited to observe him proceed to construct on the success of our girls’s hockey program.”

Bobrowski replaces Whitney Colbert, who stepped down earlier this summer season.

“I’m humbled and stuffed with gratitude to be coming dwelling to Hamline,” stated Bobrowski. “I wish to thank Alex Focke and the group for making this such a first-class course of and giving me this chance. I might additionally prefer to thank my spouse Jennifer and household for taking this journey again dwelling to Hamline with me. I sit up for arriving to TRIA Rink with the gamers and feeling the electrical energy within the constructing for the followers to see quick and enjoyable hockey.”

Bobrowski kicked off his collegiate profession in 2015-16 as an assistant coach with the Pipers, a place he held for six seasons by means of 2020-21. He was a part of a training employees that inherited a program that completed with simply six victories in 2014-15 and amassed an 88-41-14 report over the subsequent six seasons.

Beneath Bobrowski’s help, the Pipers superior to the NCAA Division III Frozen 4 on two events. This included a 2018-19 season that noticed Hamline attain the nationwide championship recreation and notch a program report in wins with a 23-4-3 report. This got here after a 2017-18 season that noticed the Pipers end 22-5-3, declare a MIAC match championship, and advance to their first Frozen 4.

Bobrowski coached six All-People all through his time with the Pipers, which included the AHCA nationwide participant of the yr in 2019.

Following his time at Hamline, Bobrowski was an assistant coach at Minnesota the place he helped coach the Gophers to an NCAA match berth after successful the WCHA title. Bobrowski was additionally the pinnacle coach for Elmira and in his first season, took the Hovering Eagles to the convention championship and had the group ranked tenth nationally.

Previous to starting his teaching profession, Bobrowski spent 22 years in legislation enforcement with the Saint Paul Police Division.