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History of Cyclone Hockey

1960s

Prior to the 60s, hockey did exist at Iowa State, including being played on Lake Laverne, but not in any sort of sustained, organized manner. It wasn’t until 1965 that a new track coach at Iowa State by the name of Chris Murray, a British Columbia native who ran for Canada in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, that a semblance of organization started to exist for hockey.

In the early years, the loosely organized group played on an outdoor rink near Beyer Hall (paradise would later be paved and a parking lot was put up) and also traveled to Des Moines regularly to play at the then new Des Moines Ice Arena, now known as Buc Arena. The team started to play occassional games against teams from other schools after registering as a student organization in 1967.

As Murray’s responsibilities with Cyclone Track and Cross Country increased, his ability to serve as the leader to Iowa State’s hockey club decreased. By chance, a young post-graduate student from Neepawa, Manitoba arrived on campus in 1969 with a background (like Murray) in running and hockey, an ability to organize, and an interest in coaching— Alan Murdoch.

History of Cyclone Hockey

1970s

Iowa State joined the Iowa Collegiate Hockey League and won the championship in 1970 and 1971 and began competing in the brand new Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL) in 1971 as a founding member.

After construction of Hilton Coliseum finished in December of that same year, Cyclone Hockey began playing its home games at the new all-purpose arena. The Cyclones won their first CSCHL title in 1973, and under Alan Murdoch’s leadership, quickly began to resemble the Cyclone Hockey that exists today--with a cheer squad, a pep band, and a dedicated fan following.

Although game nights at The Hilton were magic and a distinguishing feature of Cyclone Hockey’s “Golden Age,” the players were still having to conduct most of their practices at the outdoor rink near Beyer Hall. With the increasing demands of Cyclone Basketball at Hilton Coliseum, and the formation of other ice user groups in the Ames community during the 1970s, it became apparent that Ames needed a fulltime ice rink. After signficiant fundraising efforts, the Cyclone Area Community Center (CACC) was finished in 1979.

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History of Cyclone Hockey

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1980s

®While the 70s were the “Golden Age” of Cyclone Hockey playing in front of sizable crowds at Hilton Coliseum, the 80s were a decade of significant on-ice success. Iowa State won Central States Collegiate Hockey League regular season championship six times (‘80, ‘81, ‘86, ‘87, ‘88, and ‘89) and the tournament title six times (‘80, ‘81, ‘84, ‘85, ‘87, and ‘89). Incredibly, Iowa State appeared in the championship game of the CSCHL Tournament every year from 1984 to 1989.

The Cyclones continued to play some games at Hilton, but more and more of Iowa State’s home games were contested at the CACC, which served as the team’s fulltime practice facility.

Amenities at the CACC were added as the decade moved on. A locker room was added for the Cyclones in 1982, showers were installed in that locker room in 1985, and a locker room for visiting teams was constructed that same year.

Additionally, the major college club hockey teams were organizing a national tournament by the 80s, and Iowa State was beginning to establish itself as one of the elite club teams in the nation by the end of the decade.

History of Cyclone Hockey

1990s

Cyclone Hockey’s building success in the 1980s carried through right into the 90s. Iowa State’s consecutive appearances in the CSCHL Tournament championship game went up to ten seasons (‘84 through ‘93) and the Cyclones competed in eight of the ten CSCHL finals during the decade, winning the Easton Cup in ‘90, ‘91, and ‘97. Iowa State took the CSCHL regular season title in ‘90 and ‘91 and shared it with Michigan-Dearborn in ‘92.

Beginning with the 1993-94 season, the CSCHL established an East and West Division, with Iowa State playing in the latter. The Cyclones took the West Division from ‘94 to ‘97, when the CSCHL merged back to one division.

Of bigger note, Iowa State was a charter member of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) in the spring of 1991 and the Cyclones won the inaugural ACHA Men’s Division 1 national championship in 1992. In ‘96 and ‘97, the Cyclones finished runner-up at nationals to CSCHL-rival Ohio.

During the decade, Cyclones Bill Ward (‘94), Doug Borud (‘97), and Rob Howitt (‘98) all received the ACHA Player of the Year Award.

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2000s

Ground was broken on the new Ames/ ISU Ice Arena in 2000 and Glenn Detulleo earned the ACHA Player of the Year Award for the 2000-01 season—the final campaign contested at the aging CACC. The Cyclones broke in the Ames/ISU Ice Arena by taking the CSCHL regular season championship and the CSCHL Tournament title for the 2001-02 season.

Fan support at the new arena remained strong and the facilities were a significant step forward over the old CACC. Iowa State captured the CSCHL Tournament championship again in 2007, but the Cyclones did not experience the same level of on-ice success as it did in the 80s and 90s, as the ACHA Men’s Division 1 level became more and more competitive.

However, despite the decreased number of trophies compared to the previous two decades, Cyclone Hockey remained one of the premier organizations in the ACHA and was one of only three teams to make every ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament as the ACHA entered its third decade and Cyclone Hockey its sixth.

History of Cyclone Hockey

2010s

Iowa State started the decade out on a high note by making the championship game of the 2010 ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament, but the next year the Cyclones missed the tournament for the first time.

The 2010-11 season was marked by Al Murdoch’s 1000th win on February 18, 2011. Just over two years later in November of 2013, Murdoch retired as the head coach and general manager of Cyclone Hockey and Jason Fairman became the interim head coach. Fairman assumed the full title of head coach and general manager for the 2014-15 season and continued the rebuild Murdoch had started.

Iowa State returned to the championship game of the ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament in 2016, losing to Lindenwood just like in 2010, but the team pulled off the CSCHL sweep for 2016-17 by taking the CSCHL regular season title and winning the CSCHL Tournament with overtime wins against Robert Morris and Lindenwood.

As Cyclone Hockey celebrated turning 50 in 2017, the organization moved into a new hockey office in the old CACC and new signage and marketing materials were installed in the Ames/ISU Ice Arena.

Cyclone Hockey returned to the ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Championship game in 2019, falling 3-1 (empty-net goal included) to Minot State.

Jason Fairman

Head Coach & General Manager

Fairman is in his sixth season as a coach with Cyclone Hockey and his fifth season full season as the head coach and general manager and is looking to bring the team back to the form it displayed in 2015-16 and 2016-17.

ACHA National Championship Finalists

2015-16, 2018-19

CSCHL Tournament Championships

2016-17

CSCHL Regular Season Championships

2016-17

ACHA

Coach of the Year Finalist

2015-16, 2016-17

CSCHL Coach of the Year

2015-16, 2016-17

Team USA

Winter World University Games

Matt Cooper 2013, 2015

Jon Feavel 2013

J.P. Kascsak 2015

Jake Uglem 2017

Tony Uglem 2017

ACHA

All-ACHA Division 1

Matt Cooper 2014, 2015

Tony Uglem 2016, 2019

Colton Kramer 2016

Jake Uglem 2016, 2017

Derek Moser 2017

Matt Goedeke 2019

Jackson Graalum 2019

Kurt Halbach 2019

Trevor Sabo 2019

Nick Sandy 2019

ACHA

ACHA Rookie of the Year

Tony Uglem 2016

Last season, Iowa State got of to a strong 12-3-01 record as Cyclone Hockey celebrated its 50th anniversary, but the season went off the rails after Fairman was unable to make the road series at Robert Morris November 17 and 18 due to his mother suddenly falling seriously ill and then missing the remainder of the first semester due to her death in late November. While Fairman had to be away from the team to tend to the affairs of his mother, the Cyclones went 0-6-00, allowing 31 goals in that stretch. A series of injuries during the first semester, particularly to the blue line, significantly reduced the Cyclones’ ability to field a capable d-corps many nights. Still, a 5-4 road win at Ohio January 13, a sweep of Robert Morris at home January 19 and 20, a 6-3 victory over the Eagles February 23 in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League Tournament served as highlights to a season that ended with a 3-2 loss to Robert Morris March 11 at the ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament in Columbus, Ohio.

During the 2016-17 season, Iowa State held down the top spot in the ACHA Men’s Division 1 Rankings, for the first time since 1999, for four weeks from September 28 through October 19. Although the Cyclones were unable to retain their number-one ranking, the team did secure the CSCHL regular season championship, the team’s first since 2002, by picking up an improbable sweep of Ohio on the road in Athens February 17 and 18 with a pair of 3-2, 1-0 victories. The sweep of the Bobcats in Bird Arena last February marked the first time the Cyclones had ever sweep a road series against the Bobcats. A week later, having earned a bye in the first round of the CSCHL Tournament, Iowa State downed tournament host Robert Morris 3-2 to advance to the finals and then took the William W. Easton Cup by persevering to a 5-4 overtime victory over Lindenwood to earn Iowa State’s first CSCHL Tournament championship since 2007. Having led the Cyclones to both CSCHL titles, Fairman was selected the CSCHL Coach of the Year by his peers for the second straight season. Unfortunately, Iowa State was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 2017 ACHA Men’s Division 1 Tournament at Columbus, Ohio, by the eventual tournament champion Central Oklahoma, but the campaign was still the first since 2001-02 that Iowa State took both the CSCHL regular season and tournament titles. Overall, the Cyclones finished the season with a 25-15-1-0 record despite playing, according to official rankings

strength of schedule computations, the toughest schedule in the entire ACHA. Notable player recognitions included brothers Tony and Jake Uglem being named to Team USA for the 2017 Winter World University Games, Kody Reuter and Aaron Azevedo earning ACHA AllTournament Honorable Mention Honors, and goaltender Derek Moser being selected to the ACHA Men’s Division 1 All-Second Team and Jake Uglem to the All-Third Team. As a reflection of Iowa State’s overall success, Fairman was again named a finalist for the ACHA Coach of the Year award.

The strong campaign in 2016-17 came after a 2015-16 in which Fairman led Iowa State to a season that was, arguably, equally successful. The Cyclones finished with an overall record of 29-9-1-5 record, which was buttressed by a run to the championship game of the ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament. Having already earned CSCHL Coach of the Year honors, as the Cyclones came 12 seconds away from winning the CSCHL regular season championship with one of the youngest rosters in recent memory, ninth-ranked Iowa State knocked off eighthranked Colorado with a 5-2 victory in the first round of the 2016 ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament, then upset top-ranked Minot State with a 2-0 shutout of the Beavers, and eliminated second-ranked Stony Brook with narrow 2-1 win, before coming up short against third-ranked Lindenwood 2-1 in the championship. Six Cyclones were named to the All-Tournament Team and, for the first time since 1998-99, Iowa State had three players named All-ACHA at the end of the season, as Tony Uglem was named ACHA All-Second Team, All-Rookie Team, and ACHA Rookie of the Year; Jake Uglem was named ACHA AllSecond Team; and Colton Kramer was tabbed to the ACHA All-Third Team and ACHA AllRookie Team.

In 2014-15, Fairman guided the Cyclones to a strong 24-14-3-3 overall record and a final ranking of eighth after downing Oklahoma in the first round of the 2015 ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament but then losing to eventual 2015 ACHA Men’s Division 1 national champion Central Oklahoma 5-3, which included an empty-net goal. Of significant note, Fairman’s demands that the Cyclones play a detail-orientated game defensively led to an incredible 1.80 goals-against average, which stands as the lowest (best) in Cyclone Hockey history, and also to the team’s lowest penalty minutes per game in team history at 431.

Fairman accepted the reins as Cyclone Hockey’s head coach and general manager on November 19, 2013, after starting the season as assistant coach, and the Cyclones went 20-7-

3-0 under his leadership to close out the 201314 season and to give the team a 30-10-4-0 record overall, its best record in over 15 years at the time, and finished the season ranked fifth. Other major Iowa State accomplishments under Fairman leadership in 2013-14 included sweeping Arizona in Tucson his first weekend

season, when Marquette achieved its best record in ten years. After one more season at Marquette, Fairman moved to his hometown Twin Cities to work for Coca-Cola and, after a season away from coaching, joined the men’s hockey coaching staff at NCAA Division III Hamline for the 1997-98 season. Hamline named Fairman the Pipers’ co-head coach for the 199899 season, but Fairman made the move to Ithaca, New York, for the 1999-2000 season to pursue his master’s degree and to serve as an assistant coach at the NCAA Division 1 ranks under longtime Cornell Big Red Head Coach Mike Schafer.

games in 2010-11 and transformed it into the Mississippi 8 Conference champions for the 2012-13 season.

as the team’s head coach, downing Ohio 2-1 in overtime at Bird Arena to pick up Iowa State’s first victory in Athens in seven years, defeating Lindenwood 2-1 February 2 for the Cyclones’ first victory over the Lions in Wentzville, and advancing to the quarterfinals of the 2014 ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament after a big 3-1 win in the first round over an Ohio Bobcats team that eliminated Iowa State in the semifinals of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League Tournament with a 2-1 overtime victory only two weeks earlier.

After five years at Iowa State, Fairman has established himself as one of the top tactitioners in the ACHA, but this is not surprising given the extensive and varied coaching resume he brought to Cyclone Hockey. Fairman got his coaching start in 1993-94 as an assistant coach at Marquette, when the Golden Eagles were in the CSCHL with Iowa State and while he worked for Hershey, and assumed the head coaching position at Marquette for the 1994-95

To start the new century, Fairman moved to the junior ranks and served as an assistant coach for the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League in 2000-01. When the Fighting Saints relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the 2001-02 season, Fairman moved back to the college ranks as an assistant coach for NCAA Division I Iona College for the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons while finishing his master’s degree in business administration.

With his MBA in hand, Fairman concentrated on a career in financial institutional sales for seven years before catching the coaching bug again in 2010-11, when he served as an assistant coach for NCAA Division III Augsburg College. Following his lone season at Augsburg, Fairman was approached about assuming the head coach position for the high school hockey team in Buffalo, Minnesota, which he accepted. Fairman inherited a Bison team that won only three

Jason Fairman: Coaching History

As a player, Fairman was a highly regarded prospect for Roseville High School in the mid80’s and moved on to NCAA Division I hockey at Denver University for the 1987-88 season. Unfortunately, early in his freshman season with the Pioneers, Fairman suffered a significant groin injury that knocked him out of the lineup for a few weeks and limited his effectiveness when he returned. Knowing that any prospects of playing in the National Hockey League or perhaps even the American Hockey League were likely dashed by his groin injury, Fairman transferred to Ivy League Cornell University to finish his college hockey career. Despite limited action with the Big Red his last two seasons of college hockey, due to the nagging effects of the groin injury suffered at Denver and the reaggravation thereof at Cornell, Fairman played one season of pro hockey with Bergen of the Norwegian Elite League in 1992-93 before hanging up his skates as a player at high levels.

As the head coach and general manager of Cyclone Hockey, Fairman oversees all of the organization’s hockey and business operations.

He currently resides in Ames and is pursuing his doctorate in educational leadership, to add to his MBA and to his a B.S. in applied economics from Cornell.

Executive Staff

Kevin Wey Assistant General Manager

An alum of Cyclone Hockey and a graduate of Iowa State’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communications in 2006, Wey is in his eighth season with the organization in an executive capacity and his twelfth season connected to the team.

Wey re-joined the organization during the 2011 off-season as the director of communications to increase the caliber of Cyclone Hockey’s print, online, digital, and broadcast communications. In July of 2015, Wey gained the title of assistant general manager but it did not result in a significant change in job duties and was more a formal acknowledgment of the role Wey has had as an advisor to the general manager in numerous areas since returning to the organization. A couple months into this season, Wey will have to relinquish broadcasting and other game-night duties, such as game recaps, to fulfill team manager/coaching duties with the Des Moines Jr. Buccaneers (Des Moines Youth Hockey Association), but he will continue to design and create Cyclone Hockey’s poster, pocket calendars, table tents, team

Cyclone Hockey: A Family Affair

programs, and many of the organization’s other significant marketing projects.

Prior to re-joining Cyclone Hockey, Wey served as a scout correspondent for four seasons with McKeen’s Hockey, for which he scouted and reported on players from the American Hockey League, the United States Hockey League, and other midwestern leagues.

As a player, Wey was the first player born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to play junior hockey and played two seasons (1998-99 and 1999-00) for the Minnesota Ice Hawks of the Minnesota Junior Hockey League. He then played one season of ACHA D2 hockey for West Virginia University before transferring to Iowa State and playing for its ACHA D3 team for four seasons. While at Iowa State, Wey served as the D3 team’s president his final three seasons. In his final year playing for Cyclone Hockey, he also served as the organization’s media relations intern, on top of writing for the online hockey prospects website Hockey’s Future.

Wey lives in Johnston, Iowa, with his wife, Britta, and their 10-year-old son, Adam, and 6-year-old daughter, Reagan. He also works full-time as the quality control manager for Iowa Workforce Development. Additionally, he is an assistant coach and team manager for the Des Moines Jr. Bucs Squirt Blue team, coaches baseball in the Johnston Little League, and served as the head coach of the 9s All-Star Gold team this past summer.

Left: Assistant General Manager Kevin Wey broadcasting the pre-game for Iowa State’s game against the Springfield Express February 27, 2016, with his then seven-year-old son, Adam, monitoring the broadcast and ready to edit graphics. Top Right: Father and son continuing to do the pre-game of the February 27 broadcast. Bottom Right: Adam Wey smiling for the camera while father, Kevin, rattles off statistics during the pre-game of the February 27 broadcast. Photos by Britta Wey.

Coaching Staff

Brian Gibbons

Assistant Coach

Gibbons joins the Cyclone Hockey coaching staff for the 2019-2020 season as an assistant coach. Originally from Temple Hills, Maryland, Gibbons grew up playing youth hockey in Maryland before playing prep hockey in Vermont from 2005-2008.

Gibbons committed to playing NCAA Division III hockey at Utica College after prep school. Gibbons tallied seven goals and recorded 16 assists in his two seasons with the Pioneers

Gibbons is no stranger to the ACHA. After playing two seasons for the Pioneers, Gibbons stepped away from hockey and eventually landed at Utah State University. Gibbons joined the Aggie ACHA Division II team for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons before signing his first professional contract for the Neuwied Bears in Germany. During the 2016-17 season, Gibbons joined the Hannover Indians before playing for the Hannover Scorpions.

Above: Assistant Coach Gibbons coaches the D2 Cyclones at the AmesISU Ice Arena on February 8, 2020. Photo by Jenny Lichty.

Hockey Operations Staff

Scott Ismond

Regional Scout - Pacific

®Ismond makes the transition to scout after serving as the organization’s Division 2 head coach from 2017-2019 and Division 3 head coach in 20162017.

Ismond led the Division 2 Cyclones to an overall record of 18-6-2-0 in 201819 and guided the team to back-to-back a runner-up finish at the MACHA Gold Division Tournament, coming up short to ACHA D2 powerhouse McKendree. Ismond’s success behind the bench led to two MACHA Gold Division Coach of the Year in 2017-18 and 2018-19, MACHA Silver Division Coach of the Year and the ACHA Men’s Division 3 Pacific Region Coach of the Year for 2016-17.

As a player, the Calgary, Alberta native played with the Peninsula Panthers and was named the VIJHL Goaltender of the Year for 2007-08. Following a second season with the Panthers, Ismond split 2009-10 with the Columbia Valley Rockies and the Squamish Wolfpack. Ismond redshirted as a freshman at Iowa State during the 2010-11 season but led Cyclone Hockey’s ACHA Men’s D3 team to the semifinals of the 2012 ACHA Men’s D3 National Tournament, was named to the All-Tournament Team and was named to the ACHA Men’s Division 3 Pacific Region AllFirst Team. The next three seasons, Ismond put up some of the best numbers in the ACHA Men’s Division 1 and finished his D1 career with a 30-16-1-3 record, 7 shutouts, a 2.12 goals-against average, and a .924 save percentage. Following the 2014-15 season, Ismond was awarded the Raymond Valliant Team Spirit Award. Ismond currently resides in Pacifica, California with his wife, McKenna.

Steve Cromie

Regional Scout - Midwest & Western Ontario

Cromie has served as a scout in the Chicagoland area for Cyclone Hockey for years and his years of involvement in hockey earned him induction into the Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois Hall of Fame in 2014.

From 1983 through 1987, Cromie was both a football and hockey player at Iowa State and went on to play in the NFL as a replacement player for the Minnesota Vikings in 1987. He also played minor pro hockey during the 1987-88 and 1988-89 seasons before settling in the Chicago area working in the fitness industry, eventually owning his own CWC Fitness.

As a coach, Cromie has been active with CanAm Hockey since the early 90s and served as a coach of the NAHL’s Chicago Freeze from 1997 to 1999. He coached for the Barrington Red Wings minor hockey program from 1999 through 2005, was Northern Illinois’ head coach for the 2005-06 season, an assistant coach for the United Hockey League’s Chicago Hounds for 2006-07, and currently assists with Leafs Hockey. The Oak Park-native lives in Elgin, Illinois, and coowns the real estate agency Haus & Boden with his wife, Lori, the managing broker.

Andrew Callaghan

Regional Scout - Mid-Atlantic & South

An assistant coach for the Division 1 team from 2014-15 through 2016- 2017, Callaghan has returned to the business world but remains in the organization as a regional scout.

Iowa State had two of its most successful seasons this century during Callaghan’s time running practices and coaching the defensemen during games.

Callaghan also served as an assistant coach at the ACHA Men’s Division 1 level at Mercyhurst during 2012-13 and Towson during 2008-09. In between his stints at Towson and Mercyhurst, he served as the co-head coach of the Erie Lions’ pee wee major AA and two seasons as an assistant coach for his high school alma mater, Cathedral Prep, in Erie, Pennsylvania.

As a player, Callaghan served as the Cathedral Ramblers’ team captain his senior season and moved on to junior college hockey with Morrisville State. After two seasons with Morrisville, the skilled, gritty forward finished his hockey and degree at Towson. Callaghan currently works as a regional manager for Erie Insurance based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

Matt Cohn

Regional Scout - Illinois

An alum of Cyclone Hockey, Cohn has remained involved with the program since graduating in 2011. Cohn, who played junior hockey for the Chicago Force of the Central States Hockey League, played three seasons of ACHA D1 hockey for Central Oklahoma before transferring to Iowa State for the 2010-11 season, his senior year. After an impressive ACHA D1 career, Cohn played for the Danville Dashers of the Federal Hockey League in 2011-12 before the shuffling of players due to the NHL lockout and injuries forced him to retire early in the 2012-13 season.

Since then, Cohn has been a scout for the Cyclones while coaching in the Chicagoland area. He was an assistant coach for Team Illinois’ bantam minor teams from 2012 to 2015, then served in the same position for the Chicago Young Americans from 2015 to 2017. Last season, he served as the head coach of Leafs Hockey’s midget major and bantam major in the CSDHL and this season is the head coach of Leafs Hockey’s U-15 and U-16 teams.

The Chicagoland native lives in Gilberts, Illinois, with his wife, Colleen, and son, Sawyer, and works as a regional sales manager for ExtraHop.

Hockey Operations Staff

Nick Hewitt Regional Scout - Upper Midwest

Hewitt is in his third full season serving as a regional scout for Cyclone Hockey after joining the organization in February 2017.

Based out of La Valle, Wisconsin, Hewitt scouts the North American Tier 3 Hockey League (NA3HL), the United States Premier Hockey League’s Midwest Division, and the North American Hockey League, and can also check out United States Hockey League prospects if and when needed. Hewitt also serves as an evaluator for Cyclone Hockey at tryouts.

In addition to his work scouting for Cyclone Hockey, Hewitt also scouts prospects for an NCAA Division 1 hockey team, focusing on the USHL, NAHL, Minnesota high school, and Wisconsin high school hockey. A doctor of pharmacy, Hewitt works full-time as a clinical pharmacist at Mile Bluff Medical Center after having previously worked over seven years as the assistant director of pharmacy at the CGH Medical Center in Sterling, Illinois. Hewitt received his undergraduate degree and his doctorate from North Dakota State University, where he played lacrosse.

Briar McNaney Regional Scout - Interior British Columbia

McNaney is in his second season of involvement with Cyclone Hockey serving as a scout in the interior of British Columbia.

Although new to Cyclone Hockey, McNaney has been around the British Columbian hockey scene for some time. He currently is in his second season as an assistant coach of the Columbia Valley Rockies of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League and previously coached minor hockey in his hometown of Merritt, British Columbia. He also served as a scout for number of teams in the British Columbia Hockey League and Alberta Junior Hockey League.

As a player, McNaney played in the esteemed British Columbia Midget Major League for the Thompson Blazers before spending four seasons in the KIJHL amongst the Columbia Valley Rockies, Fernie Ghostriders, Kamloops Storm, Revelstoke Grizzlies, and 100 Mile House Wranglers from 2009-10 through 2013-14. McNaney also represented Aboriginal Team British Columbia twice in Canada’s National Aboriginal Hockey Championships.

McNaney currently resides in Invermere, British Columbia.

Lukas Simpson Regional Scout - Coastal British Columbia

In his second season scouting for Cyclone Hockey, Simpson is a young coach who is already moving his way up the coaching ladder.

Simpson serves as a head instructor for Magic Goaltender Development, located in Langley, British Columbia, and has been a part of MGD for 15 years as both a student and instructor. He also currently serves as the goaltender coach for the North Vancouver Wolfpack of the Pacific Junior Hockey League and is in his third year of such service for the Wolfpack. Prior to coaching for North Vancouver, Simpson was the goaltender coach for the Langley Rivermen of the British Columbia Hockey League and the head coach for the West Vancouver Schools Elite Hockey Academy.

In his playing days as a goaltender, Simpson played junior hockey for the Peninsula Panthers in 2009-10 (the season after Cyclone Hockey scout Scott Ismond tended net for the Panthers) and the Mission Icebreakers from 2010 through 2012.

Simpson currently resides in Langley and also owns a personal training and strength and conditioning company, Simpson Fitness.

Chris Beston Regional Scout - Alberta

Beston is in his third season with Cyclone Hockey as a scout scouring for talented student-athletes in Alberta, Canada. An experienced coach in Alberta, Beston is in his third season as the head coach of the Okotoks Bison of the Heritage Junior Hockey League, a league that is sending more and more players to the ACHA D1 ranks. Beston also had previously served as an assistant coach for the Okotoks Oilers of the Alberta Junior Hockey League, in addition to 12 years of coaching minor hockey in Okotoks. As a player, Beston translated his midget hockey career to some games for the Western Hockey League’s Calgary Hitmen between the 1999-00 and 2000-01 seasons and also played in the AJHL from 1999 through 2002 for the Crowsnest Pass Timberwolves, Calgary Canucks, and Olds Grizzlys. He also played a bit of minor pro hockey for the Alabama Slammers of the WHA2.

In addition to coaching the Bison and scouting for Cyclone Hockey, Beston co-owns a construction company, Bama Contracting, and a hockey stick and equipment company, Bama Hockey.

Team Staff

Jenny Lichty

Director of Marketing

®Lichty is in her second season as Directof of Marketing, one of Cyclone Hockey’s most important positions.

In her current role, Lichty oversees the student marketing team, develops gameday and in-game graphics, and facilitates the social media plan across three platforms. In addition, she mentors student staff in social media, marketing, and photography. This season, Lichty’s role also expands into community relations and working to implement special events including Hockey Fights Cancer, Pucks and Paws, and Hockey for Heroes. Her goal is for Cyclone Hockey to be a contender for the ACHA Community Service Award. On top of these duties, Lichty fills in where necessary as in-game photographer as necessary, particularly for road games and during Division 2 games.

An Iowa State alumna, Lichty earned her undergraduate degree in agricultural and life sciences education in 2009 and her master’s in agricultural education in 2014. While at Iowa State, Lichty was also involved in Collegiate FFA, Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow, Blood Drive, Cyclone Aide, Kappa Alpha Theta, and was a five-year member of the VEISHEA planning committee. She spent seven years in the high school classroom working with students interested in the agricultural industry and as agricultural educator and FFA advisor.

Having become immersed in hockey, Lichty left the classroom to pursue her dream of working in the sports industry with a focus on digital media, community relations and marketing. One day she hopes to manage the social media for the NHL’s Nashville Predators. In addition to her role with Cyclone Hockey, Lichty works full-time at Ames Fitness Center and with the Iowa Wild as part of the Fan Experience Team.

Hailey Ebacher Athletic Trainer

Ebacher is in her first season as Cyclone Hockey’s athletic trainer, working with both the Division 1 & Division 2 teams.

As the athletic trainer for the team, Ebacher provides treatment to injuries before, during, and after games and provides emergency coverage for serious injuries sustained by players of both teams on game nights.

On top of serving as a trainer for the Cyclone men’s ice hockey team, Ebacher works as the graduate assistant athletic trainer for Iowa State University’s Recreation Services Department.

Ebacher is in her first year of graduate school int eh IGPNS program and working towards her master’s degree in nutritional sciences. A native of Alexandria, Minnesota, Ebacher received her bachelor of science degree in athletic training from Winona State University in May 2019.

Having started as a volunteer with Cyclone Hockey, Thien is in his second season with the organization as a fullfledged member of the staff and has become one of the most involved individuals in the organization.

In his current role, Thien ensures all necessary volunteer positions are filled for each game night and that all gameday operations runs smoothly to ensure fans have the best gameday experience possible. On top of managing the volunteer staff and gameday operations, Thien himself serves as the public address announcer for Division 2 games and also Division 1 games when regular public address announcer Chris Osher is unavailable.

Thien got his start with Cyclone Hockey working Division 3 games in 2016-17, then served as a volunteer and announcer for the Division 2 team to begin 2017-18 before becoming the director of marketing midway through the season, working closely with Jenny Lichty.

The Ames native studied at his hometown Iowa State University and graduated in 2012 with a degree in elementary education. While at Iowa State, he was involved in Cyclone Family Weekend and served as the President of Events. He served as a student advisor for Cyclone Family Weekend after graduation and also served as a project manager for Facilities, Planning, and Management’s Go Green initiative. Thien was also a member of Alpha Phi Omega.

Thien currently lives in Ames and works for the Ames Community Preschool Center as school-aged coordinator; but, having caught the hockey bug, he is interested in potentially working full-time in gameday operations for a professional team.

Chris Fell Video & Media Manager

Fell, a senior in marketing, is in his fourth season with Cyclone Hockey and is the organization’s ace video manager. As with the last three seasons, Fell creates promotional videos and game recaps that are posted to the team’s social media platforms. His work continues to give Cyclone Hockey a very professional social media presence and continues to be the best videos ever produced for the team.

The Belvidere, Illinois, native looks to one day work in sports video production.

Joe Thien Volunteer & Gameday Operations Coordinator

A senior in graphic design, Raver is in her second season with Cyclone Hockey as the team’s photographer.

Raver climbs the ladder on game nights and takes photos of Division 1 games used in social media and publications, including this program. She also serves as the team’s photographer at special events, such as Hall of Fame Weekend and the team banquet.

Hailing from Ankeny, Iowa, Raver seeks work in graphic design in Des Moines as a stepping stone to working in the Northeast or Northwest.

Team Staff

Sam Burzlaff Merchandise Manager

A senior in apparel merchandising, Burzlaff is in his second season with Cyclone Hockey but first as merchandise manager after serving as an assistant last season.

Working with long-time volunteer Pat Hahn, Burzlaff works the Puck Shop selling exclusive Cyclone Hockey apparel and memorabilia and maintains and tracks the team’s inventory of said apparel and memorabilia.

The Muscatine, Iowa native looks to start a career as a merchandise buyer in Minneapolis after graduation..

A senior majoring in accounting and management information systems, Hanscel is in her second season with Cyclone Hockey and serves as an accounting assistant.

Hanscel works for the team on game nights in the ticket office selling tickets and helping complete nightly reports.

The native of Rochester, New York, has served as the treasurer of the ISU College Republicans and is working toward becoming a chief financial officer one day.

Larson is entering his third season as an equipment manager for Cyclone Hockey and is in his second season on the student staff after transferring from the Des Moines Area Community College to Iowa State.

The Ames native helps set up arena signage before games, transports all sticks to and from the bench, sets up pucks for warm-ups, and any other task assigned to him.

A senior in journalism and mass communications, Larson also hopes to one day work as an equipment manager in the athletic department.

Sommer Stevens Graduate Assistant-Business Operations

Alyssa Raver Photographer

Student Ticketing Office Recreation Services

Jared Larson Equipment Manager

Carson Quackenbush Senior Finance

Madalyn Meylor Freshman Animal Ecology

Logan Juell Sophomore Electrical Engineering

Jeremy Miranda Senior Statistics

Jessica Vlastaras Junior Pre-Business

Cheer Squad

Riley Barbour

Carley Bontje

Madeline Bronstad

Alyannah Buhman Biology Animal Science Animal Science Criminal Justice Senior Sophomore Freshman Freshman Des Moines, Iowa Rock Rapids, Iowa Hartley, Iowa LeMars, Iowa 1st Year 2nd Year 1st Year 1st Year

Mackenzie Cahalan Nadia Cover

Jordan Danke Katelyn Fiedler Pre-Business Elementary Education Accounting Kinesiology and Health Freshman Junior Senior Senior Pleasant Hill, Iowa Honolulu, Hawaii Hinton, Iowa New Prague, Minnesota 1st Year 3rd Year 2nd Year 4th Year

Serra Hodgeman Emily Hohneke

Bailey Ireland Lauren Jensen Food Science Cybersecurity Communication Studies Early Childhood Education Senior Sophomore Senior Freshman Shakopee, Minnesota Cedar Rapids, Iowa Ankeny, Iowa Rochester, Minnesota 2nd Year 1st Year 2nd Year 1st Year

Cheer Squad

Faith Klein

Hannah McCann

Lauren Meinel Elizabeth Memmini Finance Elementary Education Open Option Cybersecurity Engineering Freshman Senior Freshman Sophomore Alton, Iowa Ankeny, Iowa Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Huntley, Illinois 1st Year 4th Year 1st Year 2nd Year

Anna Mouw

Kenady Sandbulte

Madeleine Schanz

Alexandria Schwerin Dietetics Marketing and MIS Marketing Criminal Justice Freshman Sophomore Freshman Sophomore Sioux Center, Iowa Sioux Center, Iowa Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Jewell, Iowa 1st Year 1st Year 1st Year 2nd Year

Sarah Tweedy

Allison Ulmanis

Halle Walker

Kari Weiland Family & Consumer Science Ed. Mathematics Human Sciences Elementary Education Junior Sophomore Freshman Sophomore Donnellson, Iowa Cary, Illinois Boone, Iowa Garden City, Iowa 2nd Year 1st Year 1st Year 2nd Year

Cheer Squad

2019-20 Cheer Squad Captains

(right): Sarah Tweedy, Treasurer; Hannah McCann, Vice President; Katelyn Fiedler, President; Bailey Ireland, Public Relations Chair

Cyclone Hockey Volunteers, Thanks so much for all you do! We couldn’t do it without you.

Sincerely,

Jason Fairman

Not Pictured: Kristen Johnson, Emily Lair, Elda Rodriguez, Rita Thorson, Scott Thorson.

Erica Briest

Head Coach & General Manager

Elaine Chaney

Pat Hahn

Joseph Jordan

David Knepp

Maya Miller

Bri Mills

Chris Osher

Pep Band

Kaitlin Steward Secretary 2nd Year

David Uselman Treasurer 2nd Year

Chris Kunz Recruitment Chair 2nd Year

Justin Schneider Event Coordinator 2nd Year

Jacob Schmeider Vice President 3rd Year

Parker Polaschek President 3rd Year

D1 Statistics 2018-19

D1 Results 2018-19

D1 Awards 2018-19

D1 Game Photos 2018-19

Senior Spotlight

32 Nikita Kozak

Having played as the second or third goalie on the Cyclone Hockey teams he played for up to this point, Nikita Kozak’s hard work will pay off in 2019-20, when he’ll be looked to as the number one. His path to this point proves there’s more than one way to becoming a high-end collegiate netminder.

Growing up in suburban Des Moines, Kozak played high school hockey for the Des Moines Capitals, which culminated his senior season in 2015-16 where the Capitals went 27-0-0-1 in the regular season and Kozak was a perfect 25-0-0-0 with a 1.55 GAA and .933 save percentage, which earned him selection to the Midwest High School Hockey League’s All-Central Division team and AllLeague team.

Despite being more than capable of playing junior hockey, Kozak, who earned the MwHSHL’s Academic Achievement Award his first three seasons of MwHSHL hockey and the Presidential Academic Achievement Award his senior year, decided to embark immediatley on his education at Iowa State. Kozak played his freshman season at Iowa State on the team’s Division 3 team, putting up respectable numbers behind veteran Robbie Cordes.

With Kozak having proven himself as one of the organization’s top athletes his freshman season, the Cyclones moved him up to the Division 1 team his sophomore season to face D1 caliber shots in practice day-in and day-out. Kozak only saw time in parts of two games behind Derek Moser and Matt Goedeke, but he acquitted himself well with a 0.86 GAA and .958 save percentage in his 69:37 played.

Last season, Kozak saw more action as the number two behind Goedeke, even challenging the senior for the number one spot for a short while, and the junior put up a decent .918 save percentage and 2.60 GAA on the strength of six starts and seven appearances. This season, though, Kozak could be one of the most worked goalies in all the ACHA with two freshmen as his backups. Regardless of how well things go on the ice, mechanical engineering is Kozak’s future. He was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for his senior year, which is the nation’s premier undergraduate scholarships in math, natural sciences, and engineering. He plans to get a master’s degree in computer science, specialized in artifical intelligence, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering focused on computational mechanics.

Getting to Know Nikita Kozak

Favorite NHL Player: Alexander Ovechkin

Favorite NHL Team: Washington Capitals

Favorite Cyclone Hockey Memory: 2019 ACHA Men’s Division

1 National Tournament in Dallas, Texas (national runner-up)

Favorite Thing About Cyclone Hockey: Great group of guys that make coming to the rink every day a joy

Favorite Thing About Iowa State: Supportive and knowledgeable faculty

Proudest Personal Accomplishment: Being able to intersect my inspirations and engineering interests to improve soldier safety through innovative research throughout the past 3 years

Professional Goals: Establish my own multidisciplinary research team at a Department of Defense laboratory focused on vehicle innovation

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Senior Spotlight 54 David Rutkowski

David Rutkowski is a testament to personal determination and to player development at Cyclone Hockey. He didn’t initially achieve his desired goal at Iowa State, but he kept working hard, never quit, and has developed into a prototypical energy-line forward in this modern age of speed.

The Chicagoland native came up through the youth ranks eventually playing midget hockey for the Skokie Flyers of the Northern Illinois Hockey League and the Northwest Chargers of the Central States Development Hockey League before playing junior hockey for the Chicago Bulldogs of the NA3HL during the 2015-16 season. He finished third in team scoring for the Bulldogs with 15 points (5-10-15) on a team that struggled to win but moved up many players to the ACHA Division 1 ranks over time.

After one year of junior hockey, Rutkowski came to Iowa State, hoping to play on the Division 1 team, but he was selected to play on the Division 3 team. He primarily skated as a defenseman his freshman year but still led the D3 Cyclones in rookie scoring with 14 points (6-8-14) in 32 games played and helped the team earn an automatic berth to the ACHA Men’s Division 3 National Tournament as one of the top-two ranked Division 3 teams in the Pacific Region.

He moved back to forward full-time his sophomore season, helping Iowa State’s second team transition full-time to the ACHA Division 2 ranks. He finished seventh in team scoring with 16 points (8-8-16) in 22 games played and helped the team make the ACHA Men’s Division 2 Central Regional Tournament, where the Cyclones lost 2-1 in the opening round to Marian.

His hard worked paid off his junior year when he earned a spot on Cyclone Hockey’s Division 1 team. Rutkowski typically played in a depth role, but played in 33 of the team’s 37 games and picked up a goal and an assist.

After being a step slow at the Central States Collegiate Hockey League level to start 2018-19, Rutkowski enters his senior season that necessary step faster and looks primed to be an energy-line forward again, but one that can keep up with any other team at the ACHA Men’s Division 1 level. Rutkowski now stands as a prime example of what many of the organization’s Division 2 players can achieve if they don’t quit and commit to incremental improvement day after day.

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Getting to Know David Rutkowski

Favorite NHL Player: Jonathan Toews

Favorite NHL Team: Chicago Blackhawks

Favorite Cyclone Hockey Memory: Run to the National Championship game last year (2019 ACHA Men’s Division I National Tournament)

Favorite Thing About Cyclone Hockey: The culture

Favorite Thing About Iowa State: The campus

Proudest Personal Accomplishment: Being the first one in my family to go to college

Professional Goals: Getting a full-time job in the city of Chicago

For years, non-varsity college hockey teams from around the country wanted a national governing body to organize and standardize that level of play. In April of 1991, those wishes became a reality, and the landscape of college hockey was forever changed.

During the 1991 Chicago Showcase, an annual tournament featuring some of the top high school players from around the country, 15 men from some of the top non-varsity college hockey programs from around the country gathered not only to recruit players, but to form a new governing body. Tom Keegan (ACHA), Al Murdoch (Iowa State), Joe Battista (Penn State), Jim Gilmore (Ohio), Ernie Ferrari (Stanford), Howard Jenks (California-Berkeley), Jeff Aikens (North Dakota State), Don Spencer (West Virginia), Jim Barry (Navy), Scott Fuller (Navy), Leo Golembiewski (Arizona), Ron Starr (DePaul), Cary Adams (PCHA), Jim Warden (PCHA), and Jack White (UCLA) all met at the North Shore Hilton in Skokie, Ill., to bring the vision into fruition and on April 20, 1991, the American Collegiate Hockey Association was born.

ACHA CSCHL

Pre-dating the American Collegiate Hockey Association by over 20 years, the Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL) has provided non-varsity hockey teams in the Midwest an opportunity to play organized, competitive intercollegiate hockey since the fall of 1970.

The CSCHL started with two divisions of teams from Illinois and a division of teams from Iowa, with Iowa State being a founding member and the only remaining member of those original teams. Over the years, the CSCHL has served as a launch pad for programs such as Notre Dame, Alabama-Huntsville, and Illinois-Chicago to form NCAA Division I programs. In the case of St. Norbert, it meant the foundation of a highly successful NCAA Division III program. For other schools over the years, it’s been a landing place for universities that ceased operating NCAA Division I or NAIA

The ACHA’s inaugural year was the 1991-92 season and included about three dozen teams in two divisions, with Iowa State winning the inaugural Division 1 championship and Toledo the first Division 2 championship. The original goals of the association were to form an impartial governing body that organized national tournaments, monitored player eligibility, standardized rules and organizational operations, and provided general oversight for the existing members. However, the ACHA quickly grew to 150 teams in three men’s divisions and today has over 500 teams in three men’s divisions and two women’s divisions under its umbrella.

The original founders of the ACHA may not have envisioned the full impact the association would have on college hockey over the years, but today, and every year, it offers nearly 10,000 players the opportunity to play sanctioned, organized, and competitive intercollegiate hockey. It also offers 22 or so players every two years the opportunity to play for Team USA, as USA Hockey draws from the ACHA to build its roster for the Winter World University Games.

programs. Members have come and gone over that time, with a number in the Great Lakes region banding together to form the Great Lakes Collegiate Hockey League in 2010-11, but the now five-member CSCHL— featuring the University of Illinois, Iowa State University, Lindenwood University, Ohio University, and Robert Morris University-Chicago—is still going strong.

The CSCHL has had a member team take the ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Championship in seven of the last eighteen years, including Lindenwood in 2016, and thirteen of the last nineteen national runner-ups have come from the CSCHL, including Iowa State in 2019, 2016 and 2010. The league regularly has all five teams in the ACHA Men’s Division 1 Top 25 Rankings and regularly has all five teams at the national tournament. Because of this, and rightfully so, the CSCHL is widely considered the top league in the ACHA.

Illinois Fighting Illini

Iowa State Cyclones

Lindenwood Lions Ohio Bobcats

Robert Morris Eagles