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| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Arizona State |
| Conference | NCHC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | December 8, 1976 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
| Education | Arizona State University |
| Playing career | |
| 1995–1999 | Arizona State |
| Position | Goaltender |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2008–2010 | Arizona State (Assistant) |
| 2010–present | Arizona State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 153–162–26 (.487) [NCAA] 164–27–9 (.843) [ACHA] |
| Tournaments | 0–1 (.000) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2014 WCHL Conference Champion 2014 ACHA National Champion 2015 WCHL Conference Champion | |
| Awards | |
| 2009 Arizona State Athletic Hall of Fame 2014 WCHL Coach of the Year | |
Greg Powers (born December 8, 1976) is an ice hockey former goaltender and current head coach at his alma mater Arizona State.[1]
Career
[edit]Greg Powers began attending Arizona State in the fall of 1995.[2] He served as the starting goaltender for the Sun Devils club team competing in the American Collegiate Hockey Association for four seasons, earning ACHA All-American honors in 1997, 1998 and 1999 while being named team MVP for both his sophomore and junior seasons.[3] After graduating from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Powers returned to his alma mater in 2008 to serve as an assistant coach. After two seasons he was promoted to the head coaching position and swiftly raised the profile of the Sun Devils. In 2012–13, he led Arizona State to its first 30-win season and the following campaign took home the program's first ACHA national championship. It came as no surprise that Powers was retained as the bench boss once Arizona State announced they would become an NCAA-sponsored Division I program for the 2015–16 season.[4]
Powers has been on the Sun Devil coaching staff now for 14 years, and enters his seventh year as head coach of ASU's NCAA Division 1 Hockey Program. Powers was a finalist for the 2019 & 2020 Spencer Penrose Award, which is awarded to the NCAA Division 1 Coach Of The Year. He was also awarded the 2018–19 Frank Kush, Sun Devil Athletics Coach of the Year Award.
During the 2018–2019 hockey season, Powers and his staff led the Sun Devils to become the fastest start-up program to qualify for the NCAA Division 1 Tournament in NCAA History. The Sun Devils finished the season ranked 10th in the Pairwise rankings.
Prior to the 2026 season, Powers brought in Tim Ziesel (a former Green Beret) to oversee a strenuous workout session for the first official team activity on August 20 at Sun Angel Stadium. Near the end of the workout, for which Powers watched from the side, Matthew Mayich, a prospect for the St. Louis Blues, collapsed and wound up in the hospital in a coma with an "exertional heat stroke". The university announced it was reviewing the circumstances of the workout alongside campus police, with Ziesel retaining a lawyer.[5] Powers was placed on paid administrative leave on September 30, 2026, following an anonymous letter by seven players to Arizona State University president Michael M. Crow detailing the workout and requesting he be placed on leave.[6]
Head coaching record
[edit]| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State Sun Devils (WCHL) (2010–2015) | |||||||||
| 2010–11 | Arizona State | ||||||||
| 2011–12 | Arizona State | ||||||||
| 2012–13 | Arizona State | 35–8–1 | ACHA Final Four | ||||||
| 2013–14 | Arizona State | ACHA national champion | |||||||
| 2014–15 | Arizona State | 35–4–1 | ACHA Final Four | ||||||
| Arizona State: | 164–27–9 | ||||||||
| Arizona State Sun Devils Independent (2015–2024) | |||||||||
| 2015–16 | Arizona State | 5–22–2 | |||||||
| 2016–17 | Arizona State | 10–19–3 | |||||||
| 2017–18 | Arizona State | 8–21–5 | |||||||
| 2018–19 | Arizona State | 21–13–1 | NCAA regional semifinals | ||||||
| 2019–20 | Arizona State | 22–11–3 | Tournament cancelled | ||||||
| 2020–21 | Arizona State | 7–16–3 | |||||||
| 2021–22 | Arizona State | 17–17–1 | |||||||
| 2022–23 | Arizona State | 18–21–0 | |||||||
| 2023–24 | Arizona State | 24–8–6 | |||||||
| Arizona State: | 132–148–24 | ||||||||
| Arizona State Sun Devils (NCHC) (2024–present) | |||||||||
| 2024–25 | Arizona State | 21–14–2 | 14–9–1 | 2nd | NCHC Semifinals | ||||
| 2025–26 | Arizona State | 14–21–1 | 7–16–1 | 9th | |||||
| 2026–27 | Arizona State | ||||||||
| Arizona State: | 35–35–3 | 21-25-2 | |||||||
| Total: | 167–183–27 | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
[edit]- ↑ "Arizona State Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ↑ "Greg Powers". Arizona State Sun Devils. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ↑ "ASU Profiles: Sun Devil Hockey head coach Greg Powers". House of Sparky. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ↑ "ASU Hockey: How the Sun Devils became a Division I team". House of Sparky. April 19, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ↑ Strang, Katie; Fenno, Nathan; Kilgore, Adam (September 17, 2026). "Inside Arizona State men's hockey, and the workout that left a player on life support". The Athletic.
- ↑ Schlossman, Brad Elliot (September 30, 2026). "Arizona State places head coach Greg Powers on leave". Grand Forks Herald. Retrieved September 30, 2026.
External links
[edit]- American men's ice hockey goaltenders
- Arizona State Sun Devils men's ice hockey players
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Indianapolis
- Ice hockey players from Indiana
- Ice hockey coaches from Indiana
- 1976 births
- Arizona State Sun Devils men's ice hockey coaches
- Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumni