Halford leaves Wilkes males’s hockey bench after 5 seasons, takes job as head coach with Stevenson girls’s hockey squad

Stevenson has introduced the rent of Ben Halford as the subsequent head coach of the Mustangs girls’s hockey crew.

Halford isn’t any stranger to the MAC as he comes with expertise from working most just lately with Wilkes as an assistant coach for the previous 5 years.

“We are able to’t be extra excited to have Ben be a part of our household right here at Stevenson College. He did an awesome job of separating himself via the interview course of together with his power and keenness for the sport,” mentioned Stevenson affiliate athletic director Paul Cantabene in a press release. “We imagine he’s going to be probably the greatest younger coaches within the Center Atlantic Convention within the close to future. He’s an awesome instructor of the sport and an excellent higher individual.”

“I’m extremely honored and excited on the alternative to steer a brand new period of hockey at Stevenson,” added Halford. “It was clear from the start of this course of that the college’s stage of dedication to the Mustang hockey program is among the many greatest within the nation. I want to thank Matt Grimm, Paul Cantabene and the remainder of the search committee for his or her skilled, detailed method. I can’t wait to get began working with our employees and student-athletes.”

Previous to Wilkes, Halford served a five-year stint at Penn State, working as an assistant coach for the ladies’s hockey crew. Whereas he was with the Nittany Lions, the crew notched three regular-season CHA titles, two CHA playoff championships, and two NCAA event appearances for the primary time in program historical past. He skilled the primary ever NWHL Draft choose from Penn State and skilled this system’s high goaltenders to obtain goalie of the yr, all-conference accolades, and invitees of the USA Excessive Efficiency Goaltender Camp.

Halford runs and is the founding father of Speed up Goaltending. This system provides coaching packages and campus throughout the USA, working with over 500 goaltenders. For the previous six years, this system has been specializing in method, sport techniques, psychological method, and organizational improvement. This system has had 5 goaltenders play for Workforce USA in worldwide competitors.

Halford, a goaltender in his taking part in days, competed within the AHL, ECHL and SPHL following his collegiate profession at Princeton, the place he was a part of the 2018 ECAC Hockey league champion crew.