Rand Pecknold Head Coach 19th Season Connecticut College ‘90/’93
(.725) since 2005-06.
In 2011-12, Rand Pecknold, in his 18th season as Quinnipiac’s head coach, guided the Bobcats to its 16th consecutive non-losing season with a 20-14-6 overall mark, including a 9-8-5 record in ECAC Hockey, giving Pecknold 20-win seasons in 14 out of his 18 years behind the bench for Quinnipiac, as well as his 11th in 14 years at the Division I level. In addition, Quinnipiac’s 13-4-3 home record matches the 2009-10 team’s mark for most wins on its own ice while giving the Bobcats their best winning percentage
For his career, Pecknold is currently 288–188–53 (.595) at the Division I level with a combined 337-230-62 (.585) mark at both the Division I and Division II levels. His win total (337) and winning percentage (.585) over the past 18 years rank first all-time at Quinnipiac. Included in that overall mark is an astounding ledger of 200–112–49 (.680) in conference play at the Division I level. Pecknold’s 337 career wins are ninth while his .585 winning percentage ranks 12th among all active NCAA Division I coaches. Last season, Quinnipiac also improved on its league-best streak as the only team to win a ECAC Hockey Championship tournament series in each of the last seven years after the Bobcats took two of three games against Brown in the ECAC Hockey Tournament First Round on Mar. 2-4 at High Point Solutions Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center. Off the ice, the Bobcats ranked among the top half of Quinnipiac’s Department of Athletics in Positive Play points, which encourages community involvement by Quinnipiac’s student-athletes and coaches. Also, Quinnipiac was one of four ECAC Hockey schools, along with Brown, Yale and Rensselaer, to feature 20 or more student-athletes on the ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team. In all, 21 Quinnipiac skaters posted a 3.0 grade-point average or higher over the last three semesters. For his career, Pecknold boasts a career record of 337-230-62, making him just the fifth coach in Quinnipiac Athletics history to reach the 300-win mark, while ranking among the top 10 in active coaches in NCAA Division I hockey. Since joining the Division I ranks for the 1998-99 season, Quinnipiac ranks in the top ten in NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey in wins and winning percentage. Among his many honors, Pecknold is a two-time Spencer Penrose National Coach of the Year finalist, the 2005 Atlantic Hockey Coach of the Year, the 2006 InsideCollegeHockey.com ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year and was a member of the inaugural class of the Elm City Legends in 2008. Prior to the start of the 2010-11 season, Pecknold was selected as ECAC Hockey’s representative on the NCAA Division I Men’s Ice
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Hockey committee. Pecknold will serve the second year of his twoyear term in 2012-13 seasons. Since taking over as head coach of the Quinnipiac University men’s ice hockey team 18 years ago, Rand Pecknold has asserted himself as one of the nation’s best. He has seen plenty of changes, but one constant is a proven track record filled with success and accom plishment, both on the team and individual fronts. 2009–10 was no exception, as the program reached its all-time highest nationalranking, fourth in the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Division I polls. Quinnipiac’s early-season success featured wins against nationally-ranked Ohio State on the Buckeyes home-ice to open the season before ultimately winning 12 of their first 13 games. Included in the run, that culminated with the No. 4 ranking, were wins against nationally-ranked UMass and Cornell, including Quinnipiac second win in their last three regular-season games at Lynah Rink. Pecknold’s line-up featured a pair of early-season nationally-ranked scoring leaders in Brandon Wong and Eric Lampe, as well as the AHCA National Player of the Month in goalie Dan Clarke. Quinnipiac hit a lull over the middle part of the season, before clinching home-ice advantage for the ECAC Hockey First Round for the fifth consecutive year, while also extending their streak of Quarterfinal appearances to five. When the dust settled, Wong was signed by the Grand Rapids Griffens of the American Hockey League, while Lampe and Jean-Marc Beaudoin landed in the East Coast Hockey League, with Lampe lacing them up for the Florida Everglades while Beaudoin helped the Bakersfield Condors to their league championship for the first time in program history. In addition to his team’s success, Pecknold won his 300th career game as the Bobcats clinched their ECAC Hockey First Round series. In 2008–09, the Bobcats line-up included the nation’s leading scorer in Bryan Leitch, who also led the nation in assists. It was a first for the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey program at the Division I level and was also the first time since All-American Reid Cashman word the Bobcats’ sweater that Pecknold coached a player that landed among the nation’s leaders. In addition to Leitch, linemate David Marshall also ranked in the top ten in points scored as well as goals scored as the duo sat in the top two spots on the ECAC Hockey scoring list. Leitch was named to the ECAC Hockey Second Team, become Quinnipiac’s first all-league player since 2006–07. Prior to the Bobcats joining ECAC Hockey, Pecknold guided Quinnipiac to two MAAC regular-season titles, one Atlantic Hockey regular-season title, one MAAC tournament title and the first-ever NCAA berth in program history in 2002.In addition to individual success, the Bobcats won their second consecutive in-season tournament when they knocked off Merrimack and nationally-ranked Air Force to win the Toyota UConn Hockey Classic. The Bobcats went on to defeat Harvard and Dartmouth, also nationally ranked at the time, for an impressive four wins in six days. The feat pushed Quinnipiac into the national polls for the first time that year while they were also named the College Hockey News National Team of the Week. The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey 2007–08 season started off on a high note when the team was ranked in the top 15 by both the USCHO.com/ CSTV Division I and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine College Hockey Preseason Polls. The Bobcats became mainstays in the national rankings for most of the season, rising