Canton males’s hockey staff promotes Versich to affiliate head coach, Christopher to assistant coach

Canton has introduced a pair of teaching workers promotions previous to the beginning of the 2025-26 season.

Christiano Versich has been promoted from assistant coach to affiliate head coach, whereas Trevor Christopher has been elevated from a volunteer to an assistant coach.

“I’m excited to announce a pair of promotions to our SUNY Canton males’s hockey workers this fall,” Roos head coach Alex Boak stated in an announcement. “These adjustments strengthen our dedication to excellence and place us nicely for a profitable season.”

Versich has spent the final two seasons because the lead assistant for the Roos of their transition into the SUNYAC. He helped lead the staff to eight wins through the 2023-24 season, together with profitable two of three contests towards Route 11 rival Potsdam. The Roos gained 9 video games together with six in league play through the 2024-25 season incomes a SUNYAC playoff look of their first season within the convention.

“Christiano has actually excelled in his position, bringing invaluable data to our ahead group and enhancing our energy play,” Boak stated.

“I’m grateful and excited for my new position throughout the program and what the longer term holds for SUNY Canton males’s hockey,” Versich added. “I’m very grateful to Coach Boak and athletic director Randy Sieminski for believing in me and our staff. I’m excited to proceed to construct on the inspiration and commonplace we now have set over the previous couple of seasons.”

Christopher, a 2024 graduate of Canton with a bachelor’s diploma in well being and Fftness Promotion and an affiliate’s diploma in bodily remedy assistant, was a four-year defenseman for the Roos. He appeared in 48 whole video games, registering eight assists over three seasons after the staff didn’t play any video games throughout his rookie season attributable to COVID. He spent the 2024-25 season as a volunteer assistant with this system.

“We’re additionally thrilled to welcome Trevor again to our program after serving as a volunteer,” Boak stated. “As an alumnus, Trevor’s familiarity with our tradition and his experience in power and conditioning, protection, and recruiting might be instrumental in additional creating our staff.”

“I’m extremely grateful for this new position inside a program that has given a lot to me,” Christopher added. “It’s a real honor to assist additional a tradition that my class and generations of alumni have constructed with pleasure and fervour as we tackle this new period.”