Rochester Institute of Know-how has named former Tigers gamers Shane Madolora and Josh Mitchell new assistant coaches for the boys’s hockey crew.
A former All-American goaltender, Madolora graduated as RIT’s Division I-era profession chief with a .932 save share, which continues to be tied for eleventh in NCAA historical past. He’s additionally tops with a 1.97 goals-against common, which stays tied for twentieth within the NCAA document e book.
“Shane was somebody that I focused immediately,” mentioned first-year RIT head coach Matt Thomas in a press release. “His familiarity with RIT as each a participant and coach coupled along with his notable work with goaltenders was one thing that I knew can be an asset to our program. He embodies the qualities and requirements that has helped RIT elevate to a championship caliber program.”
Madolora established single-season program data as a junior which nonetheless stand, main the nation with a .935 save share to go together with a stingy 1.93 GAA. The next yr, he tied his personal document with a 1.93 GAA to go together with a .931 save share whereas tying for first nationally with a program-record seven shutouts. Madolora stays first in Tiger historical past (and tied for twenty fourth in NCAA historical past) with 13 profession shutouts, in addition to fourth with 1,727 saves, fifth with 36 wins, and tied for fifth with 65 appearances. His 18-9-5 document through the 2011-12 marketing campaign tied for the second-highest single-season win complete by a Tiger, finishing his RIT profession with a 36-14-2 document.
Madolora recorded three straight shutouts through the 2011-12 marketing campaign, which stay tied for the fourth-most in NCAA DI historical past, whereas the 211:01 scoreless stretch stays twenty first. He was voted the 2010-11 Atlantic Hockey goaltender of the yr after touchdown the primary of back-to-back first-team all-conference nods. The crew’s Dan & Laurie Barrows “Fan’s Selection Award” winner following the 2011-12 season, he was additionally tabbed the RIT senior athlete of the 12 months earlier than graduating with a enterprise administration administration diploma.
Madolora performed professionally for 4 years following his RIT profession, together with coaching camp invitations from the NHL’s San Jose Sharks and the AHL’s Rochester Individuals, together with appearances throughout the highest leagues in France, England and Italy.
Most lately serving the final two seasons as an assistant coach at Vermont, Madolora additionally served as a goaltending improvement coach from 2020 to 2023, working with each the RIT males’s and ladies’s packages, together with the boys’s and ladies’s packages at close by Nazareth in addition to with the PWHL’s Buffalo Beauts.
The proprietor of Madolora Consulting and Growth, Madolora beforehand served as head coach/director of participant personnel for the Rochester Monarchs junior program.
Following the top of his enjoying profession, he spent three seasons as an assistant coach with the RIT ladies’s hockey crew from 2016 to 2019.
One in every of solely 5 Division I-era RIT gamers to eclipse 120 profession factors, Mitchell stays fifth all-time with 121 factors. He additionally graduated with 90 profession assists — one in every of solely two Tigers who’ve ever hit the milestone.
“I’m excited so as to add a former Tiger to the employees,” mentioned Thomas. “Josh’s accomplishments as a participant are spectacular and he has translated that very same stage of success into his teaching profession. He has a pointy eye for expertise and his give attention to improvement can have an instantaneous influence on our present and future gamers.”
Mitchell was a part of back-to-back Atlantic Hockey championships and NCAA match appearances in 2015 and 2016. He scored the game-winning objective within the Tigers’ 2-1 upset of No. 1 Minnesota State within the opening spherical of the 2015 match, marking the primary time the sixteenth seed upset the highest seed in NCAA hockey historical past. He then captained the Tigers to a different title the next yr as RIT grew to become solely the second AHA program to win consecutive championships.
“I’m extremely honored to return to the RIT males’s hockey program,” mentioned Mitchell. “Having the chance to educate on the program that gave me a lot as a participant is actually particular. I’m grateful to be again and excited to contribute to the continued success and develop RIT Hockey.”
As a junior, Mitchell totaled 52 factors — solely trailing teammate Matt Garbowsky (54 factors) for the very best scoring season in program historical past — whereas his 36 assists stay probably the most ever by a Tiger.
Mitchell didn’t miss a recreation throughout his four-year stint in a Tiger uniform, graduating with a program-record 154 appearances that stay the fourth-highest complete in program historical past.
A two-time Atlantic Hockey all-conference honoree, Mitchell additionally obtained the 2016 Louis Spiotti Coaches Award, given yearly to the participant who finest embodies RIT Hockey.
Mitchell earned a level in environmental science in 2016, earlier than embarking on a five-year skilled profession that included 4 seasons in Germany. He has spent the final 5 seasons serving as a coach with close by Bishop Kearney Selects, one of many premier junior packages within the nation, whereas serving as the pinnacle scout with the USHL’s Waterloo Black Hawks.
