There Migross Supermarkets Asiago Hockey he has a new coach!
The Giallorossa club has recently signed the contract with Ron Fogartywho thus becomes the new Head Coach of the Stellato team.
Ron Fogarty, originally from Sarnia in Ontario (Canada), is 51 years old, but has been a coach for 28 seasons.
He started very young, when at the end of his last season as a player, spent between ’95 and ’96 in CHL (Central Hockey League) with i Memphis RiverKingsdecides to return as assistant coach in the NCAA at the Colgate Universitywhere he played as a player and student for four years.
At the end of this first three-year experience he moved to Clarkson University for another three seasons and, then, to Bowling Green State Universitywhere he still served as assistant coach for four years.
After a brief interlude in the Petrolia Squires in MLHin which he held the role of player-coach, in 2007 he returned to coaching at university, this time as head coach of theAdrian College in the NCAA III, the second largest college league in the United States. Fogarty is in charge of starting the new college hockey program and does it great, winning the Conference in 6 out of 7 seasons under his guidance and achieving a second place nationally in 2010-11. His record at Adrian College is 167 wins and 33 losses, 10 of which came in overtime. Fogarty was nominated in this experience MCHA (Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association) Coach of the Year for three years and was a finalist for national coach of the year four times.
His successes bring him fame Princeton University in NCAAwhere, from 2014 to today, he holds the role of Head Coach. Fogarty is remembered for taking a team that was last in 12th place when he arrived and for leading them to victory in four years. After a couple of years of rebuilding, Princeton begins to attract attention, and then triumphs in 2018 as ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) Champion. In his experience with the Princeton Tigers he led to the consecration of four players, who were then able to make their debut in NHL: Eric Robinson, Ryan Kuffner, Josh Teves (last season at Bolzano) e Max Veronneau.
For Ron Fogarty the time has now come to arrive in Europe and with these words he expresses all his desire to start this new adventure:
“I have had the pleasure of visiting Asiago in the past and now I can’t wait to be part of the community. I believe in the vision and timing with which Renato Tessari and the company want to develop the Asiago project. I will be fortunate enough to be the coach during the process of achieving these goals. I am excited to form a new team with winning expectations, I want to immerse myself in the community and work with a culture worthy of this championship in mind”.
The Sports Director Renato Tessari comments on the choice of the new coach:
“The choice was mainly based on his experience in the NCAA, where the organization is very similar to our reality. He is enthusiastic about having an experience in Europe and coming to Asiago. It was a deliberate choice right from the start, because he fits our mentality perfectly. We have had many conversations and I think that with him we will be able to make a leap in organizational quality, both in general terms and in terms of organization on the pitch: we will have more alternatives and game plans. He has great knowledge about everything related to hockey development, and this is very important for us and our club. I also think that he can be a valid person both inside the locker room and on the ice, and outside the stadium and in the community.”
