Brown University Men's Ice Hockey

Whittet, a 1994 graduate of Brown University, and an assistant coach at Dartmouth for 11 years, was named the 15th head men's hockey coach at Brown in July of 2009. He will begin his eighth season behind the Brown bench in 2016-17.  I am absolutely delighted to have Brendan Whittet return to Brown as our head coach, said Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger. Brendan has a proven record of accomplishment as an assistant coach and brings a strong passion for Brown to our program. He had tremendous success as a player at Brown and has the knowledge and skills to guide the team to the same level of achievement that he experienced as a player. I know that Brendan learned from one of the best coaches in the league in Bob Gaudet at Brown and Dartmouth, and we are thrilled to welcome him back to Brown. A 15-year veteran of the college coaching ranks, Whittet spent the 11 seasons prior to joining Brown as an assistant on the Dartmouth College staff, helping to guide the Big Green to the 2006 ECAC Regular Season Championship and the 2007 Ivy League Championship. During Whittets tenure on the Dartmouth staff, the Big Green were perennially ranked among the nations elite, posting seven straight winning seasons (2000-2007) and 166 wins from 1998-2009. I am so thankful to have the opportunity to be the head hockey coach at Brown University, said Whittet. I would especially like to thank Mike Goldberger, Bob Kenneally, and the search committee for this wonderful opportunity. As a Brown alum and a Rhode Island native, my family and I are ecstatic to be heading home. I loved my time at Brown as a student-athlete and as an assistant coach and have a true appreciation for the positive impact that the University can play in ones life. One of my goals when I got into the coaching profession (17) years ago was to position myself to ultimately return to Brown as its head coach. That dream is now a reality. I am ready to attack the job with tenacity, dedication, passion and positive energy to return the Bears hockey program to the top of both the ECAC and the NCAA. Whittet's first season at Brown produced immediate dividends, as he guided the Bears to one of their most successful seasons in recent history. Brown won 13 games, the most since winning 16 during the 2004-05 season. Under Whittet's guidance, the Bears improved nearly every facet of their game offensively, while advancing to the ECAC Championship Tournament after finishing the regular season in 11th. Along the way during their historic playoff run, the Bears upset sixth-seeded Rensselaer in the First Round, before upsetting top-seeded and 6th-ranked Yale in the Quarterfinals. Brown closed out its first season under Whittet by finishing third in the League with a 3-0 shutout over St. Lawrence in the third place game. Individually, tri-captain Jordan Pietrus 10 was the national recipient of the Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award. Established by the HCA in honor of former Army player Derek Hines, who was a consummate team player and team builder, the award recognizes the collegiate player who embodies Hines spirit and relentless commitment. Aaron Volpatti 10 and Jeff Buvinow 12 were named All-Ivy, while Volpatti also earned All-ECAC honors and was a finalist for the ECACs Best Defensive Forward Award. Volpatti, who signed an NHL contact with Vancouver at the conclusion of the season, also earned Academic All-Ivy and CoSIDA Academic All-District honors. In 2010-11, Whittet improved the Bears' regular season positioning from 11th to 9th and the Bears were in the hunt for a first round home series until the final weekend of the season. Whittet and his staff guided Brown to many big wins, including a 6-1 victory over #10 Boston University, a pair of ties with #6 UNH (5-5) and #2 Boston University (4-4), and a 3-2 win over #1 Yale, Brown's first-ever modern era win over a team ranked #1 in the Country. The Bears also swept Colgate and Cornell in the same season for the first time ever.  Individually, Harry Zolnierczyk 11 was named the Ivy League Player of the Year and earned First Team All-Ivy honors, while Dennis Robertson 14, a 2011 draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs (6th round) was named Second Team All-Ivy. Jack Maclellan 12 (Second Team) and Robertson (All-Rookie) were both named All-ECAC at the conclusion of the season. Zolnierczyk, who signed an NHL contract with Philadelphia at the conclusion of the season, was also named CoSIDA Academic All-District. Whittets third season was accompanied by some highs and lows. By the end of January, the Bears found themselves at 8-8-3 and in the upper half of the ECAC. They had compiled some impressive non-conference wins, including a 5-2 victory over UNH in Durham, N.H. and a 5-2 win against Providence College. The victory over the Friars earned Whittet his first Mayors Cup as head coach of the Bears. Unfortunately, Brown struggled down the stretch, ultimately losing a three-game first-round playoff series at Quinnipiac. For his leadership and community-service work, Bobby Farnham 12 received the Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award. He also received the Joe Tomasello Unsung Hero Award, given by New England Hockey Writers. Dennis Robertson 14 received Second Team All-Ivy honors. Jack Maclellan 12 earned First Team All-Ivy and Second Team All-ECAC recognition. Following the season, Maclellan also signed a two-way contract with the Nashville Predators. Collectively, the mens ice hockey team received a perfect APR, academic progress rate, from the NCAA. In 2012-13, Whittet guided the Bears to the programs best season in two decades. The Bears finished with an overall record of 16-14-6 for the teams first winning season since the 2004-05 campaign and put together a remarkable run down the stretch in the ECAC Tournament. The seventh-seeded Bears earned a first round series win over Clarkson, in two games, and then a quarterfinal series win over second-seeded Rensselaer, in three games, before upsetting #1 Quinnipiac in the semifinals to advance to the Championship game for the first time since 1993. Brown fell to Union in the championship game but recorded seven more wins than the previous season. Matt Lorito 15 finished second in the conference in goals scored and was named Second Team All-ECAC following the season. Additionally, Anthony Borelli 13 earned Third Team All-ECAC recognition. Borelli, Lorito and Dennis Robertson 14 all earned First Team All-Ivy honors. In 2013-14, the Bears finished the season with an overall record of 11-17-3, playing nine games against teams that reached the NCAA Tournament, which included wins over Quinnipiac and Colgate, and ties against Boston College and Denver. Whittet notched his 50th career victory in a season-opening weekend sweep over defending national champion Yale and Dartmouth to claim the Liberty Hockey Invitational.Dennis Robertson 14 was named the ECAC Hockey Co-Best Defensive Defenseman following the season, and was also named Third Team All-ECAC and First Team All-Ivy. Matt Lorito 15 was named Second Team All-Ivy, while Nick Lappin 16 and Tyler Steel 17 were both named Honorable Mention All-Ivy. Brown went 8-20-3 overall during the 2014-15 season, highlighted by a Mayor's Cup Series victory over Providence College, the eventual 2015 National Champion, and a home won over Harvard, the eventual 2015 ECAC Champion. Brown put together a strong run late in the season with a six-game unbeaten streak during the month of February, including the program's first road sweep over the Capital District since the 2003-04 season, but the Bears bowed out to the Crimson in the first round of the ECAC playoffs. Matt Lorito '15 and Nick Lappin '16 were named Second Team All-Ivy following the season. In 2015-16, Brown knocked off No. 1 ranked Providence College, the defending national champions, and also tied No. 4 UMass Lowell in the championship game of the Friendship Four, the inaugural tournament held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Nick Lappin 16 was named to the All-ECAC First Team after the season, marking the programs first All-ECAC First Team selection since Yann Danis 04 in 2004. Tommy Marchin 19 was named to the All-Rookie Team and was a finalist for the Rookie of the Year Award. Max Gottlieb 19 joined Marchin on the All-Rookie Team as the Bears had multiple All-Rookie selections for the first time in program history.   While at Dartmouth, Whittet was involved in many aspects of running the program including recruiting, video analysis, off-ice skill development, NCAA compliance issues, working primarily with the Dartmouth defensemen, and overseeing the teams penalty-killing unit. Whittet helped lead the program to a tremendous resurgence, as the Big Green were perennially ranked in the top-20 and posted four seasons with at least 18 wins, including two 20-win seasons. Dartmouth also appeared regularly in the ECAC Tournament, making semi-final appearances in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007. Under Whittets guidance, the defensive unit saw a similar transformation, reaching a milestone during the 2004-05 season when the team recorded its lowest goals against average in 44 years. Dartmouth allowed 2.37 goals per game that placed the defensive unit among the elite teams nationally. A similar trend can be seen in the penalty kill. The 2004-05 unit finished with an 86.1 percent kill ratio that placed statistically in the top 10 in the country. Before his arrival at Dartmouth, Whittets teams at Brown and Colby both experienced success. In 1995, his first season coaching the Bears, Brown won the Ivy League Title. In 1996-97 Colby finished with a 19-6-1 record and captured the ECAC East Playoff Championship. Whittet then returned to Brown for one more season, helping to lead the Bears to a fourth place finish during the ECAC Regular Season, after finishing in 12th the year before. For 12 summers, Whittet worked for the New England District at various USA Hockey Select Summer Festivals, serving as an assistant coach in the summer of 2008 for the US Under-17 National Select Team that competed in the 5 Nations Tournament, held in Prievidza, Slovakia. Whittet has also been the head coach for the New England Select-16 team that participated in the 2000 USA Festival that went undefeated in the tournament. Whittet also serves as a member of the New England Select coaching staff that works with elite New England players ranging in age from 13-18. A former defenseman at Brown, Whittet was a four-year letterwinner. He appeared in 74 games and helped lead the Bears to an Ivy League title in 1992, two trips to the ECAC Final Four Championship in 1993 and 1994, and an NCAA at-large tournament team selection in 1993. During Whittets high school career he was a two-time Rhode Island all-state and all-league selection at perennial powerhouse Mount St. Charles. He was named the Rhode Island Defensive Player of the Year in 1988-89. Whittet also played for Southern New England in the Junior Olympics in 1989, before heading to the Kent School for a postgraduate year. This is Whittets second head coaching position at Brown, as early in his career, while an assistant coach for the Brown hockey team, Whittet was also the head mens golf coach. Whittet, his wife, Karen, are the parents of two daughters, Peyton and Addyson.     Whittet is the 15th head coach in the 112-year history of the Brown mens hockey program     Whittet is the 3rd Brown hockey alum to be named Head Coach of the mens hockey team, joining Wescott E.S. Moulton 31 (1948-52), Donald F. Whiston 51 (1953-55), and J. Allan Soares 60 (1971-74)     Whittet is one of eight Brown alumni on the current Brown athletic department staff, joining Paul Cooke 89 (Mens Crew Head Coach), Colleen Kelly 06 (Manager, Student-Athlete Admissions & Financial Aid), Bob Kenneally 90 (Womens Hockey Head Coach), Mike Martin 04 (Men's Basketball Head Coach), Keely McDonald 00 (Womens Lacrosse Head Coach), Phoebe Murphy 80 (Womens Crew Assistant Coach), and Steve Ziogas 09 (Football Defensive Assistant). Whittet Year-by-Year Results

Jason Smith enters his seventh season as an assistant coach with the Brown men's hockey program in 2025-26. The 2024-25 season saw the Bears host a home play...

Guerriero joined the men's hockey program as an assistant coach in September of 2015.  Guerriero came to College Hill after two seasons as an assistant coach at Yale, where he helped lead the Bulldogs to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2014-15. In addition to his coaching duties, Guerriero played an active role in recruiting, video and team operations. I am pleased to announce the hiring of Jason Guerriero as our new assistant coach, said Whittet. Jason has a strong and varied resume both as a player and as a coach that will translate well to our program. He is a very personable individual who brings a relentless work ethic and is driven to succeed. Jason is a consummate teacher of game and will be a counted on to work with our offense specifically focusing on forward and power play development. With such a young team returning I thought it was very important to have Jason on staff as someone the players can learn from and lean on. Before arriving at Yale, Guerriero spent two seasons as an assistant at Holy Cross, where he worked with the forwards and special teams units. As a collegiate player, Guerriero put together an impressive four-year career at Northeastern, capped by a standout senior season when he led Hockey East in scoring en route to First Team All-American honors. The team captain posted 49 goals and 147 career points, highlighted by a career-high 17 and 48 points in 2004-05. He was also named First Team All-Hockey East, Northeasterns Male Athlete of the Year and Rookie of the Year and Hockey Easts Len Ceglarski Sportsmanship Award winner. Guerriero, who was later named to the Hockey East 25th Anniversary All-Northeastern team, was also a New England Hockey All-Star and a Walter Brown Award runner-up. Before moving on to coaching, Guerriero enjoyed a six-year professional career, including two seasons with the AHL Milwaukee Admirals where he posted 23-52-75 in 137 games. He also played overseas in Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark, where he led Sonderjyske Hockey Club in scoring during the 2010-11 season.  He also attended training camps with the NHLs New York Islanders and the Nashville Predators. A 2005 graduate of Northeastern with a degree in Sociology, Guerriero and his wife, Dr. Jennifer Guerriero, have a daughter, Gabriella, and a son Michael. Jason Guerriero joined the men's hockey program as an assistant coach in September of 2015.  Guerriero came to College Hill after two seasons as an assistant coach at Yale, where he helped lead the Bulldogs to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2014-15. In addition to his coaching duties, Guerriero played an active role in recruiting, video and team operations. I am pleased to announce the hiring of Jason Guerriero as our new assistant coach, said Whittet. Jason has a strong and varied resume both as a player and as a coach that will translate well to our program. He is a very personable individual who brings a relentless work ethic and is driven to succeed. Jason is a consummate teacher of game and will be a counted on to work with our offense specifically focusing on forward and power play development. With such a young team returning I thought it was very important to have Jason on staff as someone the players can learn from and lean on. Before arriving at Yale, Guerriero spent two seasons as an assistant at Holy Cross, where he worked with the forwards and special teams units. As a collegiate player, Guerriero put together an impressive four-year career at Northeastern, capped by a standout senior season when he led Hockey East in scoring en route to First Team All-American honors. The team captain posted 49 goals and 147 career points, highlighted by a career-high 17 and 48 points in 2004-05. He was also named First Team All-Hockey East, Northeasterns Male Athlete of the Year and Rookie of the Year and Hockey Easts Len Ceglarski Sportsmanship Award winner. Guerriero, who was later named to the Hockey East 25th Anniversary All-Northeastern team, was also a New England Hockey All-Star and a Walter Brown Award runner-up. Before moving on to coaching, Guerriero enjoyed a six-year professional career, including two seasons with the AHL Milwaukee Admirals where he posted 23-52-75 in 137 games. He also played overseas in Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark, where he led Sonderjyske Hockey Club in scoring during the 2010-11 season.  He also attended training camps with the NHLs New York Islanders and the Nashville Predators. A 2005 graduate of Northeastern with a degree in Sociology, Guerriero and his wife, Dr. Jennifer Guerriero, have a daughter, Gabriella, and a son Michael.

Levine  joined head coach Brendan Whittet's staff as an Assistant Coach in July 2013. Levine comes to Brown after spending the past two seasons as the head coach at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. Mike Levine joined head coach Brendan Whittet's staff as an Assistant Coach in July 2013. Levine comes to Brown after spending the past two seasons as the head coach at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. "I am very happy to have Mike Levine join our Brown Hockey family," said Whittet. "Most importantly, Mike is a great person who has those innate character traits that have allowed and will continue to allow him to be a tremendous recruiter and coach. He possesses a relentless work ethic and is driven to succeed." Recognized as an elite recruiter, Levine has cultivated relationships throughout the industry and has a proven record at both the collegiate and prep school levels. While at Kimball Union, Levine recruited and coached elite college prospects and commitments, including recruits for Boston University, Boston College, Providence, UMass, Merrimack and Penn State. In two seasons at KUA, Levine led the Wildcats to an impressive 52-7-3 record. During the 2011-12 season, his squad won the NEPISHA small school championship and in 2012-13, the #1-ranked Wildcats were upset in the first round by The Gunnery. Prior to serving as the head coach at Kimball Union, Levine spent two seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Utica College. As an assistant coach at Utica, Levine helped attract the players that were a part of the Pioneers' run to the 2013 NCAA Division III Frozen Four. His introduction to coaching came at New Hampton Prep, where he spent four seasons and won a Division II Championship in 2009. Levine has also coached at USA Hockey's Select 15 and 16 Camp during the past eight summers.  In addition to coaching, Levine served as an Associate Director of Admission at Kimball Union and as an Assistant Director of Admission at New Hampton. A 2005 graduate of Utica and native of Sandwich, Massachusetts, Levine played in 61 games for the Pioneers, before receiving an M.Ed. from Utica in 2011.