2019-2020 Cyclone Hockey (3 of 3)

IOWA STATE

CYCLONE

D2 Roster

1 Drew Pehrson Goaltender

Height Weight 6-3 175 lb.

Catches Date of Birth Left 2/5/1997

Hometown Lino Lakes, Minnesota

Year Major Sophomore Marketing

Previous Team / League College Station Spirit / NA3HL

2 Jon Koester Defenseman

Height Weight 6-4 195 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 1/28/1999

Hometown St. Peters, Missouri

Year Major Freshman Aero. Engineering

Previous Team / League Minnesota Blue Ox / USPHL Premier

Last Season

Playing behind veterans Anthony Galliart and David Volkmann, appeared in 4 games and put up a .897 save percentage, a 3.41 GAA, and a 2-1-0-0 record in 193:26 played.

20 Peter Celatka Forward

Height Weight 6-0 160 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 3/19/1998

Hometown Prior Lake, Minnesota

Year Majors Sophomore Business

Previous Team / League Tampa Bay Juniors / USPHL Premier

Last Season

Started the season with the Willmar WarHawks of the NA3HL before moving to to the Minnesota Blue Ox of the USPHL Premier, where the defensive defenseman put up 1 goal and 1 assist in 23 games.

25 Jack Krolak Forward

Height Weight 5-11 190 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 5/22/1996

Hometown Chicago, Illinois

Year Major Junior Business

Previous Team / League South Muskoka Shield / GMHL

Last Season

Skated 2 games for the D1 Cyclones before moving to the D2 team, where he tallied 6 points (3-3-6) in 16 games to lead all D2 rookies in scoring on a team replete with veterans.

Last Season

Skated in a top-nine role first semester, while still playing his role of a disrupter, and put up a strong 8 points (3-5-8) in 14 games, but was unable to play during second semester.

30 Brendan Danielson Goaltender

Height Weight 5-11 140 lb.

Catches Date of Birth Left 12/8/2000

Hometown Delafield, Wisconsin

Year Major Freshman ??

Previous Team / League KMMO Lasers / WIAA

33 Ryan Hooks Goaltender

D2 Roster

Height Weight 6-1 180 lb.

Catches Date of Birth Left 6/4/2001

Hometown Flower Mound, Texas

Year Major Freshman Mech. Engineering

Previous Team / League Wisconsin Whalers / NA3HL

Last Season

Served as the number two netminder for Kettle Moraine-MukwonagoOconomowoc (KMMO) in Wisconsin high school hockey and put up a perfect 5-0-0-0 record, 3 shutouts, and a .944 save percentage.

34 Alex MacDonald Forward

Height Weight 6-0 190 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 8/3/1998

Hometown West Dundee, Minnesota

Year Major Junior Physical Education

Previous Team / League Kings Hockey Club / IHSHL

Last Season

Young netminder served as a depth goaltender for Wisconsin and compiled a 4-1-0-0 record, .841 save percentage, and 3.97 GAA over 257 minutes played in 6 appearances for the Whalers.

36 Patrick McCann Defenseman

Height Weight 6-2 215 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 1/27/2000

Hometown Colorado Springs, Colorado

Year Major Freshman Animal Ecology

Previous Team / League Coeur d’Alene Hockey Acad. / CSSHL

Last Season

Unable to play during first semester, which set him back a bit in terms of playing time when he was able to return, but still improved over the course of the year despite being held without a point in 5 games.

Last Season

Former Rampart Rams blueliner did not play last season but skated for Coeur d’Alene Hockey Academy of the Canadian Sport School Hockey League in 2017-18 and put up 5 assists in 36 games.

D2 Roster

37 Cooper Bailey Forward

Height Weight 5-11 160 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 4/23/1999

Hometown Normal, Illinois

Year Major Junior Mgmt. Info. Systems

Previous Team / League Bloomington Thunder U18 / NIHL

38 Zachary Zemlicka Forward

Height Weight 5-11 150 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 1/18/2001

Hometown Blaine, Minnesota

Year Major Freshman Comp. Engineering

Previous Team / League Spring Lake Park Panthers / MnHSHL

Last Season

Named the D2 Cyclones’ Most Improved Player for 2018-19 after establishing himself as an everyday player and tallying 8 points (4-48) in 23 games played. Finished 13th in team scoring.

39 AJ Giordano Forward

Height Weight 5-5 155 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 3/22/1997

Hometown Broomfield, Colorado

Year Major Junior Kinesiology & Health

Previous Team / League Florida Eels / USPHL Elite

Last Season

Led Spring Lake Park in points per game (0.84) with 16 points (7-9-16) in 19 games and finished third in Panthers scoring. Named Northwest Suburban-West All-Conference for the second straight season.

40 Liam Johnson Defenseman

Height Weight 5-10 165 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 1/10/2001

Hometown Minnetonka, Minnesota

Year Major Freshman Business

Previous Team / League Minnetonka Warriors / MJGHL

Last Season

Hard-working forward continued to serve as a depth player, but was in the line-up far more often than not and played in 15 of the team’s 24 games.

Last Season

Skated for Minnetonka’s Junior Gold A team and helped the Warriors win the Minnesota State Junior Gold A championship with a 4-3 overtime victory over Edina after trailing 3-0 entering the third period.

41 Eric Gerber Forward

Height Weight 5-10 180 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 12/2/1999

Hometown Roscoe, Illinois

Year Major Sophomore Mech. Engineering

Previous Team / League Rock County Raptors / NIHL

D2 Roster

42 Donnie Guskey Forward

Height Weight 5-10 170 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 1/10/1999

Hometown Schaumburg, Illinois

Year Major Sophomore Marketing

Previous Team / League Chicago Cougars / USPHL Premier

Last Season

Played sparingly as a rookie on a deep D2 Cyclone team on which no freshman foward skated as a top-nine forward with any regularity. Hard worker who was held off the scoresheet in his 4 games played.

43 Gabe Bortscheller Forward

Height Weight 6-0 180 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 9/14/1997

Hometown Dubuque, Iowa

Year Major Senior Business

Previous Team / League Dubuque Devils / MwHSHL

Last Season

Established himself as a regular in the line-up and as a reliable twoway forward. Tied for second in D2 rookie scoring with 5 points (1-4-5) in 21 games and was assessed only one penalty during the season.

44 Erik Evans Forward

Height Weight 5-8 165 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 12/8/1998

Hometown Minneapolis, Minnesota

Year Major Freshman Business

Previous Team / League Rochester Grizzlies / NA3HL

Last Season

Continued to develop in his transition from defense to forward and finished 11th in team scoring with 10 points (4-6-10). Was one of only two players, Blake Ramsey being the other, to skate in all 24 games.

Last Season

Started the season with the Granite City Lumberjacks, moved to the North Iowa Bulls, and then finished the campaign with the Rochester Grizzlies, all of the NA3HL. Tallied 3 goals and 8 assists in 21 games.

D2 Roster

45 Patrick Berges Defenseman

Weight 6-0 200 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 7/6/1999 Hometown Hartland, Wisconsin

Major Junior Biochemistry

Previous Team / League Arrowhead Warhawks / WIAA

46 Bryce Kessel Defenseman

Major Junior Civil Engineering Previous Team / League Madison Edgewood Crusaders / WIAA

Last Season

Played with a chip on his shoulder from the start of the season and was one of Cyclone Hockey’s most physical players the entire season. Finished the campaign with 5 points (4-1-5) in 21 games played.

48 Dylan Haar Forward

Weight 6-2 175 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 3/21/2001

Hometown Oakhurst, New Jersey

Major Freshman Meteorology

Previous Team / League Jersey Shore Whalers / USPHL Premier

Last Season

Cousin of NHLer Phil Kessel had a strong first semester with 10 points (2-8-10) in 14 games and finished 10th in team scoring and fourth in defense scoring despite being unable to play second semester.

49 Austin Sympson Defenseman

Rockford, Illinois

Team / League Rockford Icemen U18 / CSDHL

Last Season

Played high school hockey with Ocean Township and after tallying 38 goals and 15 assists, became that team’s all-time leading scorer. Also played 24 games of junior hockey with the Jersey Shore Whalers.

Last Season

Responsible two-way defenseman finished ninth in team scoring with 11 points (2-9-11) in 22 games played and was third in scoring amongst D2 Cyclones, behind Jeremy Szczurek and Ken O’Connor.

D2 Roster

50 Jarett Green Defenseman

Height Weight 6-3 180 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 8/2/1998

Hometown Tampa, Florida Year Major Freshman Business

Previous Team / League Carolina Eagles / USPHL Premier

51 Max Luedtke Forward

Height Weight 6-0 170 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 6/26/1998

Hometown Medina, Minnesota

Year Major Freshman Mat. Engineering

Previous Team / League Orono Spartans / MnHSHL

Last Season

In his fourth season of junior hockey, led the Carolina Eagles in defenseman scoring with 20 points (6-14-20) in 43 games played and was sixth overall in team scoring.

52 Tate Hentz Forward

Height Weight 6-0 175 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 4/11/2001

Hometown Minnetonka, Minnesota

Year Major Freshman Business

Previous Team / League Minnetonka Warriors / MJGHL

Last Season

A junior academically after not playing the last two seasons, finished 8th in team scoring for the Orono Spartans in 2016-17 with 6 goals and 8 assists in 26 games played.

53 Hunter Schultz Forward

Height Weight 6-1 175 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 2/13/2001

Hometown La Crosse, Wisconsin

Year Major Freshman Civil Engineering

Previous Team / League Aquinas/Holmen Avalanche / WIAA

Last Season

Teammate to fellow freshman Liam Johnson on the Minnetonka Warriors Junior Gold A team, which he helped lead to a dramatic state championship over arch-rival Edina.

Last Season

Named Mississippi Valley 1st Team All-Conference after finishing third in Aquinas/Holmen team scoring with an impressive 56 points (27-29-56) in 22 games played.

D2 Roster

55 Chris Friemel Forward

Height Weight 5-10 145 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 2/15/2001

Hometown St. Louis, Missouri

Year Major Freshman Const. Engineering

Previous Team / League St. Louis Priory Rebels / MSCHA

56 Collin Frank Forward

Height Weight 6-3 195 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Left 11/21/1997

Hometown Northfield, Minnesota

Year Major Sophomore Aero. Engineering

Previous Team / League Peoria Mustangs / NA3HL

Last Season

Led St. Louis Priory in team scoring with 42 points (13-29-42) in 20 games played and also had a team-leading 4 game-winning goals. Named a Mid States Club Hockey Association All-Star.

57 Cade McMahon Defenseman

Height Weight 5-9 180 lb.

Shoots Date of Birth Right 9/1/1999

Hometown Blaine, Minnesota

Year Major Freshman Software Engineering

Previous Team / League Spring Lake Park Panthers / MnHSHL

Last Season

Significantly exceeded expectations as a freshman, established himself as a regular, and was named the team’s Most Improved Player after playing solid defense and putting up 6 points (2-4-6) in 38 games.

Last Season

A sophomore academically and last played in 2017-18 for Spring Lake Park, where he led the Panthers in defenseman scoring with 17 points (1-16-17) in 26 games played and was fourth in overall scoring.

CYCLONE 2019

Front Row: Ryan Hooks, Patrick Berges, Jack Krolak, Cooper Bailey, Austin Sympson, Alex MacDonald, Bryce Kessel, Drew Pehrson.

Second Row: Gabe Bortscheller, Jason Fairman, Collin Frank, Peter Celatka, Jarett Green, Hunter Schultz, Jon Koester, Patrick McCann, Tate Hentz, Dylan Haar, Brian Gibbons.

Third Row: AJ Giordano, Erik Evans, Chris Friemel, Eric Gerber, Zach Zemlicka, Liam Johnson, Donnie Guskey, Cade McMahon.

HOCKEY

2020

CYCLONE

Hall of Fame Class of 2019

®Following voting by the living members of the Cyclone Hockey Hall of Fame earlier this summer, Cyclone Hockey is pleased to name the 23rd class of the Cyclone Hockey Hall of Fame. Cyclone Hockey, which has existed since the 1960s and which instituted the Hall of Fame in 1997, has inducted 110 individuals and one team (the 1992 ACHA Men’s Division 1 national championship team) as a way to formally acknowledge the contributions of exceptional former players, coaches, staff members, cheer squad members, volunteers, and other individuals connected to Cyclone Hockey.

The 2019 class features one of the most impactful staff members Cyclone Hockey has ever had, a lifelong educator who was part of the original group of players in the mid-60s, a towering defenseman who brought Cyclone Hockey into the 2000s and played for Team USA, and a successful sales professional who put up huge numbers in the 80s and even played a year of pro hockey.

Cyclone Hockey welcomes the following inductees (in alphabetical order):

Carol Franzina, Staff Member (1978 - 1981)

A graduate of Kuemper High School in nearby Carroll, Iowa, Carol Franzina (formerly Dalhoff) was a fan of Cyclone Hockey for two years while attending Iowa State before joining the organization as the treasurer of the Blue Line Booster Club for the 1978-79 season. She became the president of the Blue Line Booster Club the following season and worked with Coach Al Murdoch to increase season ticket sales while also managing concessions at the newly built Cyclone Area Community Center (CACC). During her time as the president of the Blue Line Booster Club, Franzina helped double the team’s season ticket sales and helped Cyclone Hockey establish the large, spirited crowds it had in the CACC for two decades.

Franzina graduated from Iowa State with a degree in Industrial Administration and quickly joined Keebler in a temporary position before being hired full-time and remaining with the company for over 32 years, including serving as a territory manager and district manager. On top of her full-time career with Keebler, during which she won numerous professional awards, Franzina has also been a independent consultant for Mary Kay Cosmetics since 1990. She has also volunteered for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to help lead fundraising events.

Carol currently lives in Dallas, Texas, and owns 2-Doers, a company that helps people complete their to-do lists, with her husband, Dave. Of note, her brothers Randy, John, and Bill all attended Iowa State, too, and Randy and John are both retired, living in Ames.

Tory Larson, D (1999 - 2003)

Born and raised in Lynnwood, Washington, between Seattle and Everett, Tory Larson started playing hockey at age 6 with the Seattle Junior Hockey Association before playing for the Sno-King Amateur Hockey Association from squirts through midget. Larson played a year of Tier II junior hockey with the Helena Ice Pirates in the America West Hockey League before returning to Seattle and playing for the Northwest Americans in the Pacific Junior Hockey League while attending Shoreline Community College.

The towering blueline came to Iowa State in 1999 and made an immediate impact as a physical defenseman who could also put up points. He played for Team USA at the 2001 Winter World University Games and was also named ACHA Division 1 All-Second Team and Second Team All-Tournament for 2000-01, in addition to being named Cyclone Hockey’s Outstanding Defenseman of the Year. Larson was selected to the ACHA Division 1 All-Third Team for 2001-02 and helped the Cyclones win the CSCHL Tournament.

An exercise and sport science major, Larson first returned home to Seattle and served as a youth hockey director for the Sno-King Amateur Hockey Association for two years before moving to Minnesota after his future wife, Stephanie, got a job in her hometown Twin Cities. Larson worked for Lockheed Martin as a subcontract administrator in 2005 before moving to Boston Scientific as a principal buyer/planner in the Global Sourcing Organization.

Larson currenlty lives in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, Stephanie, and their two children, Colton and Sydney. Of note, Stephanie was a gymnast at Iowa State and was a Big 12 champion and national qualifier in bars and the balance beam.

Dave Lickteig, F/D (1965 - 1967)

A native of Cresco, Iowa, Lickteig did not play organized hockey growing up but did play a lot on an outdoor rink in Cresco at the time. Lickteig was part of the original group of players organized by Chris Murray that eventually became an official student organization in 1967.

Lickteig graduated in the fall of 1967 with a degree in industrial education and later earned his master’s degree from Eastern Michigan in 1970 and his doctorate in industrial engineering from Michigan State. On top of his educational accomplishment, Lickteig has a long career in industrial engineering education. He first taught high school in New Holstein, Wisconsin then taught at Eastern Michigan and Michigan State. He then spent six years at Lake Superior State, where he helped start the industrial education and industrial technology program. After his time at LSSU, he moved to Central Missouri State, where he helped start the construction management program at CMSU. A short one-year stint at Northern Iowa was followed by 13 years at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, where he started the construction management program and was the industrial technology department head for ten years. He finished his career with six years of teaching construction management at

Georgia Southern University and then three years at Central Washington University. In addition to teaching, Lickteig spent many summers working in the construction industry and was also an ISO 9000 trainer and OSHA 500 trainer.

Over the years, Lickteig has remained active playing hockey and still plays today in his 70’s. He was bestowed the Hockey Knight in Canada Award in a tournament in Victoria, British Columbia, in March 2017 for his longevity playing and his storytelling abilities in the locker room.

Lickteig is now retired and lives in Ellensburg, Washington. when not traveling North America playing in 60+ and 70+ tournaments.

Clayton Wiffen, F (1985 - 1990)

A native of Sioux City, Iowa, Wiffen came up through the Siouxland Hockey Association and was an Iowa High School Hockey League Varsity All-First Team selection his senior season (1980-81) while skating for Sioux City in their first year as the Metros. Wiffen then played two seasons of junior hockey in the USHL, first with his hometown Musketeers and then with the Austin Mavericks.

Wiffen began playing for Iowa State during the 1985-86 season and established himself as one of the team’s top offensive threats. He was named the team’s Outstanding Forward for the 1988-89

season. During his time with the Cyclones, Wiffen helped the team earn the CSCHL regular season championship all five years he played for the team, the CSCHL tournament championship in 1987, 1989, and 1990, and national runner-up finishes in 1986, 1989, and 1990.

After graduating with a degree in speech communications, Wiffen played a season of pro hockey with Team Triantha in Assen, Holland, before embarking in his professional sales career. He started as a sales manager with Gateway in North Sioux City before moving to the Phoenix area in 2000 to work for Interact.com as a business development manager. Wiffen co-owned PC Posse, a computer service company, from the fall 2003 until rejoining Gateway as an account executive in the fall 2006. Wiffen also worked for Nordisk Systems, the Phoenix Coyotes, Sterling Computers, and Hypertec Direct in senior sales positions and management positions until moving back to Iowa in 2017 to work for Associated Computer Systems. Since January earlier this year, Wiffen has served as a territory manager for Ruckus Networks.

While living in Arizona, Wiffen stayed active playing hockey for the Sr. Arizona Coyotes and competing in national tournaments. He lives in Grimes Iowa, with his wife, Donna. He has three adult children (Dylan, Brenden, and Lakyn) and two twin, adult stepdaughters, Nikki and Tatum.

Cyclone Hockey Hall of Fame

1997

Dr. Alan Murdoch

David Lee

Chris Murray

Rod French

1998

Doug Keseley

Al Haig

Bill Stover

Peter Bowman

Bill Ward

1999

Dan Buffington

Kirby Doyle

Crawford Hubbell

Dennis Vaillant

John White

2000

Brian Williams

Mark Lovejoy

Dave Frankling

John Russo

2001

Graeme Doyle

Brian Malcolm

Holly Fuller

Rob Howitt

2002

Bob Bryant

Doug Borud

Bernie English

Paul Sandholm

2003

Steven Nordin

Jeremy Rogers

John Robyt

Glenn Detulleo

2004

Mark Burch

Joe Schaffer

Dick Williams

Jorgen Rasmussen

Tony Mueller

2005

Rick Hahn

Josh Kruse

Anfu Wang

Eric Schoh

Cliff Makohoniuk

Steve Dunstan

2006

David Graaf

Roger Kelly

Jerry Webb

Noel Erickson

Paul Hahn

Wayne Kitchingman

2007

Jim Taylor

Jim Robinson

Eric Swanson

Danny Nicholls

2008

Dan McFadden

Bart Johnston

Sean Elder

Charlie Turner

2009

Larry Weirick

Greg Biagini

Bob Johnson

Jim Riley

Mike McCormack

2010

Tom Markel

Roger Brekken

Barbara Forker

Dennis Francis

Paul Hamilton

2011

Kelley Brandt

Don Geiger

Daniel Gowan

Sheryl Sunderman

Brian Wierson

2012

Ken Francis

Tom Northrop

Brian Paolello

Dr. Richard Raffenetti

Bill Robyt

1992 ACHA Championship Team

2013

Scott Geiger

Brent Lervick

David Morgan

Andrew Murdoch

Randy Penny

2014

Tim Clarke

Russ Crawford

Rod Gold

Jeremy Meyer

Bill Shonrock

2015

Darren Anderson

Pat Hahn

Scott Hagen

Larry Saal

2016

Kyle Geiger

Paul Hartke

Joe Paolini

Rob Rose

Gail Wierson

Gary Wierson

2017

Scott Breitenfeldt

Dan Bullard

Chad Evers

Mary Beth Hanlin

David Moline

2018

Bruce Bickel

Greg Jones

Nat Little

Robert Masech

Mike Moren

Kevin Wey

2019

Carol Franzina

Tory Larson

Dave Lickteig

Clayton Wiffen

Cyclones in the Pros

Nearly all of Cyclone Hockey’s players grew up dreaming of playing professional hockey while coming up through the youth ranks, into junior hockey, and then into college hockey at Iowa State. For most of the players, they will go pro in something other than hockey. But, some Cyclones do go on to play minor pro hockey and no other team in the American Collegiate Hockey Association has sent more players on to the professional ranks, both all-time and in recent seasons. In fact, the last nine seasons, Cyclone Hockey has had 10 players lace up their skates in the pro ranks.

Below are short bios of the ten Cyclones who have played pro hockey in recent seasons.

Glenn Detulleo, F - Huntsville Havoc (SPHL), et al

Detulleo has the distinction of having the longest and most accomplished pro career of any former Cyclone. The Timmins, Ontario, native was named the Most Valuable Player of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL) and selected to the ACHA Men’s Division 1 All-First Team following the 1999-2000 season and followed that up by being again named the MVP of the CSCHL and to the ACHA Men’s Division 1 All-First Team and the ACHA Men’s Division 1 Player of the Year for 2000-01. After three seasons at Iowa State and graduating, Detulleo played his first two seasons of pro hockey with Lillehammer of the Norwegian Elite League and then played his third pro season in the German Oberliga with the Essen Moskitos and the Berlin Capitals.

For 2004-05, Detulleo returned to North America and played for the United Hockey League’s Missouri River Otters, for whom he was named that team’s Unsung Hero. Detulleo exploded offensively in 2005-06 by tallying 70 points (17-53-70) in 76 games for the Quad City Mallards and split 2006-07 amongst the Mallards, the Kalamazoo Wings, and the Elmira Jackals. The UHL became the International Hockey League (IHL) for 2007-08 and Detulleo finished ninth in league scoring with 73 points (17-56-73) in 72 games with the Wings and finished seventh in IHL scoring in 2008-09 with Kalamazoo by tallying 81 points (22-55-81) in 70 games played. On the heels of five successful seasons in the UHL/ IHL, Detulleo played one season with the Mississippi River Kings of the Central Hockey League and then moved to the Huntsville Havoc of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL).

He led the Havoc in scoring in 2010-11 with 57 points (15-4257) in 56 games and was leading Huntsville in scoring again as of March 9, 2012, when he retired as a player to become Huntsville’s interim head coach. Huntsville dropped “interim” from Detulleo’s title and he has served as the Havoc’s head

Top: Glenn Detulleo assessing the play of his Huntsville Havoc from behind the bench early in his coaching career. Photo Courtesy of the Huntsville Havoc. Above:  Detulleo skating out for the announcement of starters in the final game of his 11-year professional career. Photo courtesy of the Huntsville Havoc.

coach for the past seven seasons. Detulleo’s Havoc have won the SPHL’s President’s Cup as the league’s playoff champions each of the past two seasons.

The 2003 Cyclone Hockey Hall of Fame inductee and 2013 ACHA Hall of Fame inductee lives in Huntsville with his wife, Jen, and their daughters, Ebba and Berlin, and son, Benham.

Derek Moser, G - Elmira Enforcers & Mentor Ice Breakers (FHL)

A native of Tomah, Wisconsin, Moser came to Iowa State with two years of junior hockey experience with the Southern Oregon Spartans and the Rochester Ice Hawks, respectively, and a year of college hockey with Eastern Washington University. Moser served as the Cyclones’ third goalie for the 2014-15 season, but established himself as the number one during the 2015-16 season and was named First Team All-Tournament after backstopping Iowa State to the ACHA D1 championship game. He was named to the CSCHL All-First Team for the 2016-17 season and the ACHA D1 All-Second Team and earned Cyclone Hockey’s Academic Achievement Award his junior and senior seasons.

After graduation, Moser pursued pro hockey and started with the Elmira Enforcers, playing one game, before moving to the Mentor Ice Breakers. Moser joined an Ice Breaker team that had lost every one of its games and backstopped the team to its first win on November 17 in 50-save performance en route to a 6-4 victory over Port Huron. A week later, he picked up the first shutout in Mentor history, a 3-0 blanking of the Carolina Thunderbirds, who were by far the best team in the Federal Hockey League. Moser finished with four shutouts for the season, second amongst all FHL goalies, and was a vital cog in the Ice Breakers turning around their season and finishing fifth in the league.

Moser earned an invite to attend the Huntsville Havoc’s training camp in early October but, barring injury to Huntsville’s two veteran netminders, is slated to return to Mentor for the 2019-20 season.

Antti Helanto, D - Jokipojat (Mestis League)

Helanto came to Iowa State from the Owatonna Express of the North American Hockey League, having played for the Finnish national Under-18 team, and proceeded to embark on one of the most distinguished Cyclone Hockey careers. Over the course of his four years as a Cyclone, Helanto finished with 87 points (23-6487) in 181 games and received Cyclone Hockey’s Most Outstanding Defenseman Award in 2013 and 2015, the team’s Sportsmanship Award three times, and Most Valuable Player Award his senior season after leading Iowa State in scoring with 35 points (7-28-35)

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Top: Derek Moser tending net for the Mentor Ice Breakers in the team’s inaugural season. Moser is still sporting the pads he used at Iowa State. Photo Courtesy of Mentor Ice Breakers. Above: Antti Helanto, skating for Jokipojat, celebrating his first goal in the Mestis League September 30, 2016, against Hermes. Photo Courtesy of Jatkoika.com.

Photo by J.P. Hirvonen.

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in 44 games. He was also named to the Central States Collegiate Hockey League All-Second Team and All-Defensive Team after the 2014-15 season. The Turku native returned to Finland to start his pro career in 2015-16 with HC Kaarina Indians of the Finnish 1st Division and put up 8 points (2-6-8) in 21 games before being signed by Jokipojat of the Mestis League in mid-January. After putting up 7 points (0-7-7) in 18 games with Jokipojat, he was resigned for the 2016-17 season and only managed 3 points (1-2-3) in 38 games. Last season, Helanto skated for his hometown Mestis League team, TUTO, and put up 3 points (0-3-3) in 27 games. He was also loaned for a few games each to VG-62 and FPS of the Finnish 1st Division. The 2017-18 season likely marked Helanto’s last season of pro hockey, as he intends to start working for his father’s shipping business in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe, Mann Lines.

Matt Cooper,

G - Danville Dashers (FHL), et al

After two years as the third-string goaltender for Hamline University at the NCAA Division III ranks and having not played a game, Cooper decided to transfer to Iowa State for a shot to prove himself. He did well more than just prove himself. Over the course of his three years at Iowa State, Cooper was twice named CSCHL All-First Team, ACHA All-Third Team, ACHA All-First Team, and twice selected to Team USA to play the Winter World University Games (2013 and 2015). Having proven himself as one of the top netminders in the ACHA, Cooper went about having to prove himself in the pro ranks in 2015-16, playing for the Louisiana Ice Gators and Huntsville Havoc of the Southern Professional Hockey League and the Danbury Titans, Danville Dashers, and Dayton Demolition of the Federal Hockey League.

Cooper also served as an emergency backup for the Elmira Jackals of the ECHL. Cooper has played senior elite hockey in the Black Diamond Hockey League for the Sun Valley Suns (Sun Valley, Idaho) the last three seasons and will again in 2019-20. He also works in Ketchum, Idaho, as an assistant manager for Smoky Mountain Pizza.

Jon Feavel, F - HC Kaarina Indians (Finnish 1st Division)

Feavel was named Cyclone Hockey’s Most Outstanding Forward his sophomore, junior, and senior seasons and, thus, became only the second Cyclone to earn the award three straight seasons and the third to take it three of his four years at Iowa State. Having been named the team’s Most Valuable Player his sophomore season and having been selected to the Central States Collegiate Hockey League All-Second Team

Top: Jon Feavel drawing a puck off the boards while playing for the HC Kaarina Indians of the Suomi-sarja (Finnish 1st Division). Photo Courtesy of the HC Kaarina Indians Above:  Joe Bueltel in a scrap against the Fayetteville FireAntz’ Kyle McNeil during his rookie season. Photo courtesy of Pensacola Ice Flyers.

his junior and senior season, and having skated in the 2013 and 2014 ACHA Men’s Division 1 All-Star Game, Feavel translated his standout four-year career at Iowa State into an opportunity with the HC Indians Kaarina of the Finnish 1st Division. The North Pole, Alaska, native put up 4 goals and 2 assists in 22 games with the Indians in 2014-15 before having to return to North America after HC Kaarina was unable to fulfill the terms of his contract. The two-time ACHA All-Academic selection currently works in Memphis, Tennessee, as an engagement manager for Vanick Digital.

Joe Bueltel, F - Pensacola Ice Flyers (SPHL)

A feared fighter in the United States Hockey League with the Dubuque Fighting Saints, which he helped win the 2011 Clark Cup championship, Bueltel became the most recent in a long line of USHL players to play for Iowa State his freshman season in 2011-12. Bueltel provided a physical presence and an intimidation factor rarely seen in the ACHA his two seasons with Iowa State and was unable to turn down an offer from the Pensacola Ice Flyers of the SPHL to turn pro in 2013-14. The Louisville, Colorado, native served as Pensacola’s tenth forward for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons and kept the opposition honest as the team’s primary pugilist. During his rookie season, similar to when he played for Dubuque in the USHL, Bueltel helped the Ice Flyers with the SPHL’s President’s Cup as the playoff champions. The fighter and fan favorite retired after two seasons of the most difficult job in hockey, but Bueltel’s 100-plus pro games played puts him in the top five all-time amongst Cyclone alumni in pro games played.

Mike Lebler, F - HC Linz Black Wings (EBL)

One of the elite scorers in Cyclone Hockey history with 214 points (93-121-214) in 176 games, Lebler twice earned the Charlie Turner Award as Iowa State’s leading scorer and also took the Most Valuable Player Award, Outstanding Forward Award, and Sportsmanship Award his senior season. Lebler translated his solid Cyclone career into an opportunity with the Linz Black Wings of the Austrian-based Erste Bank League. Skating as a strong two-way fourth-liner in a league replete with former NHL players and draft picks, Lebler helped Linz capture the 2012 EBL championship in his rookie season skating on the same team as his brother, Brian. Mike returned to Linz to start the 2012-13 season, but was loaned to league-rival Dornbirn after three games with the Black Wings. Come league break, even though he could have continued playing pro hockey, Lebler decided to use his construction engineering degree and turn pro with The Opus Group in the Twin Cities, where he first served as an associate project manager for just under four years and a project manager for just under three years. This past summer, Lebler moved back to British Columbia to work for Kerkhoff Construction as a project manager.

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Cyclones in the Pros

Top: Mike Lebler blocking a shot while playing for the Linz Black Wings of the Erste Bank League. Photo courtesy of the Linz Black Wings. Above: Brent Cornelius skating the puck and looking to make a play for the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL. Photo courtesy of the Idaho Steelheads.

Cyclones in the Pros

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Brent Cornelius, D - Idaho Steelheads & SC Road Warriors (ECHL)

Having skated two seasons in the United States Hockey League with the Cedar Rapids Rough Riders and Tri-City Storm, expectations were high for Brent Cornelius heading into his Cyclone Hockey career, and he lived up to them. Cornelius was ACHA Men’s Division 1 All-Rookie Team as a freshman in 2006-07, AllThird Team his sophomore year, All-Second Team as a junior, and then All-First Team as a senior. Along the way, the Fairbanks, Alaska, native skated in the first three ACHA Men’s Division 1 All-Star Games and played for Team USA at the 2009 World Winter University Games. The electrical engineering major served a year-long internship during the 2010-11 season, but gave pro hockey a shot in 2011-12. The smooth, mobile defenseman with a cannon for a shot caught on with HC Donbass in the Ukraine, but transferred to the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL in December and played his first ECHL game December 16, 2011. After 6 games with Idaho, Cornelius was sent to the South Carolina Road Warriors to complete a previous trade and represented Iowa State well, but he decided to end his pro career after one season to work for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. Today, he works in customer operations for Alarm.com in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Erik Hudson, G - Pensacola Ice Flyers & Fayetteville FireAntz (SPHL)

The Spokane, Wash., native joined Iowa State after Winter Break 2007 from the British Columbia Hockey League and quickly put together one of the most noteworthy netminding careers in Cyclone Hockey history. Hudson became a workhorse in 2008-09, playing 41 games, and did so again in 2009-10, when he made 36 appearances, posted six shutouts, and backstopped Iowa State to the ACHA Men’s Division 1 national championship game. The Spokane, Wash., native tended net for Team USA at the 2011 Winter World University Games in Erzurum, Turkey, and translated three and a half seasons of standout ACHA hockey into a season of minor pro hockey in the SPHL in 2011-12 split between the Pensacola Ice Flyers and Fayetteville FireAntz. One season of pro hockey proved to be enough for Hudson and he decided to move into coaching. For the past four years, he’s served as the Director of Hockey and Director of Player Development for the Pelham Amateur Hockey Association and also as an assistant coach of the University of Alabama’s ACHA Division 1 hockey team. In September, Hudson and his wife moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and he joined VenuWorks as an associate executive director.

Matt Cohn, F - Danville Dashers (FHL)

Forward Matt Cohn spent only one season with Iowa State, having transferred to Iowa State after three standout seasons at the University of Central Oklahoma, but his body of work at the ACHA Men’s Division 1 ranks earned him a spot on the Danville Dashers of the Federal Hockey League for their inaugural season (201112). A skilled, hard-working forward on the ice, Cohn endeared himself to the first fans of the Dashers with his character in the community and they were disappointed when he chose to utilize the business degree he picked up from Iowa State. Worked for a year with Quantam Institute as an operations manager and then a year as the executive director of concussion management for BioSignal Group. More recently, he’s worked in sales for Reliable Redistribution Resource and Fusion Risk Management and currently works as a regional sales manager for ExtraHop. Cohn has also been active coaching high level youth hockey in the Chicagoland, including for Team Illinois, the Chicago Young Americans, and Leafs Hockey. He is a Level 4 coach for USA Hockey and returns to Leafs Hockey for 2019-20 as the head coach of the organization’s 18U team in the Central States Development Hockey League and its director of 18U hockey.

Above:  Joe Erik Hudson directing a puck away while tending net for Fayetteville of the SPHL. Photo courtesy of hte Fayetteville FireAntz.

Cyclone Hockey alum Jon Feavel celebrates after scoring Team USA’s first goal of its 5-0 shutout of Italy December 18 at the 2013 World Universtiy Games in Italy.

For 18 years, top American-born players from the American Collegiate Hockey Association have been able to look forward to something few of their compatriots playing NCAA DI hockey can hope to experience and none of their fellow hockey players playing NCAA DIII hockey have the opportunity to experience—playing for Team USA during their college hockey career. It’s been a significant perk to playing in the ACHA and an opportunity afforded to them, in large part, by the efforts of one of Cyclone Hockey’s own.

Prior to the 2001 Winter World University Games in Zakopane, Poland, the United States had not participated in ice hockey at the bi-annual international competition for a few years, but that all changed when then Cyclone Hockey Head Coach and General Manager Dr. Alan Murdoch successfully lobbied for USA Hockey to begin sending a team to the Winter World University Games comprised of players from member teams of the ACHA, which association Murdoch helped found in 1991. The first Winter World University Games for Team USA were rough in terms of results, but a 4-2 victory over Russia on February 10, 2001, lent immediate credibility to Murdoch’s vision, and Team USA has continued to become more competitive and work its way up the rankings in subsequent Winter World University Games.

Murdoch has served on Team USA’s staff for each of the Winter World University Games since the 20th Winter World University Games and Cyclone Hockey had had a player on every team up until the 2019 edition, which saw a number of NCAA DI players on the roster.

World University Games

Because of Murdoch’s role in USA Hockey fielding teams of ACHA players in the Winter World University Games, the Winter Universiade (as they are known around most of the world) hold a special place in the heart of Cyclone Hockey and the organization takes much pride in players and staff members being tabbed by Team USA.

Below is a listing of each of the Winter World University Games since 2001 and the Cyclones who have donned the red, white, and blue playing for Team USA at each:

2001 World University Games - Zakopane, Poland

F - Mark Krueger (Des Moines, Iowa)

D - Tory Larson (Seattle, Wash.)

F - Nat Little (Seattle, Wash.)

D - Jason McCollum (West Des Moines, Iowa)

F - Jeremy Meyer (Eden Prairie, Minn.)

F - Andrew Murdoch (Ames, Iowa)

2003 World University Games - Tarvisio, Italy

F - Tony Daniels (Downers Grove, Ill.)

D - Mike Moren (Lakeville, Minn.)

F - Andrew Murdoch (Ames, Iowa)

2005 World University Games - Innsbruck, Austria

F - Scott Hagen (Maple Grove, Minn.)

D - David Moline (Duluth, Minn.)

2007 World University Games - Torino, Italy

F - Allen Raushel (Cloquet, Minn.)

2009 World University Games - Harbin, China

D - Brent Cornelius (Fairbanks, Alaska)

F - Pete Majkozak (White Bear Lake, Minn.)

D - Adam Mueller (Broomfield, Colo.)

2011 World University Games - Erzurum, Turkey

G - Erik Hudson (Spokane, Wash.)

2013 World University Games - Trentino, Italy

G - Matt Cooper (Duluth, Minn.)

F - Jon Feavel (North Pole, Alaska)

2015 World University Games - Granada, Spain

G - Matt Cooper (Duluth, Minn.)

F - J.P. Kascsak (Springfield, Va.)

2017 World University Games - Almaty, Kazakhstan

D - Jake Uglem (Moorhead, Minn.)

F - Tony Uglem (Moorhead, Minn.)

2019 World University Games - Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Holiday Classic

Cyclone Hockey is built on over 50 years of tradition, but one of the more recent fixtures is the now annual Holiday Classic. Started by Cyclone Hockey Head Coach and General Manager Jason Fairman during the 2014-15 season, the Holiday Classic is a game played on the Saturday after the players arrive back to Ames early after a shortened holiday break.

The assistant coaches each draft a team comprised of the organization’s Division 1 players and any Division 2 players practicing with the top team over break and the two squads play a standard three-period game with a pre-game warm-up and are required to arrive two hours prior to puck drop, just like any normal Cyclone Hockey regular season game. The two teams complete for bragging rights amongst the players and the coaches and also for Holiday Classic Trophy, which is going to be upgraded for the 2018-19

2018-19 Champions

season to begin to include rings with the winners’ names a la the Stanley Cup.

While the game is great fun and a team-bonding experience, it also serves the dual purpose of getting the players back in the swing of things heading into the following week’s practice as the team prepares for its first series of the second semester, which is typically the first weekend of January and played on the road, and for a stretch drive where the Cyclones are aiming to take to the Central States Collegiate Hockey League regular season title, to win the CSCHL Tournament championship, a top-four seeding for the ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament, and the Murdoch Cup, awarded to the ACHA Men’s Division 1 national champions and named after former Cyclone Head Coach and General Manager Dr. Alan Murdoch.

2018-19 Champion Team Red. Front Row (left to right): Matt Goedeke, Colton Kramer, Aaron Azevedo, Tony Uglem, Max Olson. Back Row (left to right): Trevor Sabo, Tommy Hanson, Joey Marcucilli, Dalton, Peter Celatka, Jared Erickson, Hunter Dolan, Justin Paulson.

Holiday Classic

Past Champions

2017-18 Champion Team White. Front Row (left to right): Derek Moser, Jon Severson, Aaron Azevedo, Adam Alcott, Kody Reuter, Dylan Goggin, and Nikita Kozak. Back Row (left to right): Ken O’Connor, Justin Paulson, Anthony Song, Joey DeLuca, Bronson McLeod, A.J. Gullickson, Hunter Dolan, and Coach Scott Ismond.

2016-17 Champion Team Red. Front Row (left to right): Derek Moser, Dalton Kaake, A.J. Gullickson, Aaron Azevedo, Chase Rey, anad Michael Smart. Back Row (left to right): Tommy Hanson, Adam Alcott, Brit Brothen, Drew Carlson, Kody Reuter, Trevor Sabo, Eero Helanto, and Coach Andrew Callaghan.

Bowling Tournament

In addition to the Holiday Classic, another recent tradition for the players after they return from the winter holiday break is the annual bowling tournament held at Perfect Games.

Started by Jason Fairman shortly after he became the interim head coach and general manager during the 2013-14 season, the Division 1 players back from break early for practices leading up to the first series of the semester and any Division 2 players still on campus organize themselves into teams of three or four bowl ers weeks in advance of the event and compete for supremacy not only on the scorecard, but also in creativity, as there is a team that wins the actual bowling competition based on score but also a team that wins the competition for best costume.

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Cucucllu, Jon Feavel, and Mark Huber got the tradition off to a fantastic start by winning the Best Costume competition dressed as the band members of KISS but, while wearing the costumes, also bowled the best score. The EsKISSmo Brothers, as the team was called, have gone down in Cyclone lore and have set the bar for all other teams in seasons since by pulling of the double. The Rasta Rockettz, comprised of Jake Bruhn, Derek Moser, Cory Sellers, and Alex Stephens pulled off the double in 2015, but no team since has picked up the trophy in both categories. The event has served as a great team-bonding experience, and for some entertaining social media posts, while still channeling the players’ competitive natures.

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2019 Champions

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Past Champions

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2018 Champions: (Left) Best Score champion Throwin’ Heat & Chuckin’ Knucks (Max Olson, Kurt Halbach, and Jon Severson). (Right) Best Costume champion The Bowling Stones (Hunter Dolan, Justin Paulson, Bronson McLeod, and Dylan Goggin).

2019 Best Score Champion was Rolling Lumber. Team members were Max Olson, Hunter Dolan, Justin Paulson, Dylan Goggin.

2019 Best Costume Champion was the Big Le-bowl-ski including Adam Alcott, Kurt Halbach, Nick Sandy and Aaron Azevedo.

2017 Champions: (Left) Best Score champion The Pro Bowlers (Drew Carlson, Robbie Cordes, Dalton Kaake). (Right) Best Costume champion Sideshow Smurfs (Alex Grupe, Eero Helanto, Chase Rey, Mark Wishman).

2016 Champions: (Left) Best Score champion SPARE Change (Nick Sandy, Trevor Sabo, Colton Kramer, Tony Uglem). (Right) Best Costume champion Scooby-Doo & the Mystery Bowler (Alex Grupe, Eero Helanto, Chase Rey, Mark Wishman).

2015 Champions: Best Score & Best Costume champion Rasta Rockettz (Jake Bruhn, Derek Moser, Cory Sellers, Alex Stephens).

2014 Champions: (Left) Best Score & Best Costume champion EsKISSmo Brothers (Matt Bennett, Chris Cucullu, Jon Feavel, Mark Huber).

Pre-Season Training

A long-standing tradition for Cyclone Hockey, the first three weeks of the school year are marked by the team’s pre-season training, where the players undergo fitness testing to measure off-season progress and to serve as a baseline, further hone their off-season conditioning, and build bonds with their teammates.

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The pre-season team workouts typically include going on team runs of a few kilometers, with such things as sprint intervals, plyometrics, and agility training oftentimes punctuating the middle of the roughly 90-minute workouts. The team also regularly engages in other sports in the middle of their workouts, such as friendly matches of beach volleyball, soccer, and the occasional football game.

On top of maintaining their off-season conditioning, the players also learn about important places and landmarks on the campus of Iowa State University as the team runs past them and one of the coaches tells them the stories of such locations and their importance in the history of Iowa State.

The end of pre-season training is marked each and every season by Cyclone Hockey’s “Mud Run,” a tradition in and of itself. The Mud Run is both eagerly anticipated and dreaded by players. Players love it because of the creative costumes veteran players often wear during the run and the team bonding that occurs, and dread is because of the toll it takes on clothing, shoes, socks, and feet alike.

The course has changed slightly over the years, dependent on the location of Cyclone Hockey’s office on campus, but what remains a constant is that the players run for a period of time in the Skunk River and they compete in the annual Mud Run river wrestling tournament. In addition to competing for the river wrestling title, players also compete in hill sprints and the final sprint to the finish, with many players over the years taking great pride in taking first place.

After the Mud Run, players do some stretching and calisthenics to cool down, they rehydrate, and they typically enjoy fresh-cut watermelons and other refreshments with Cyclone Hockey team staff. Every few years, the river’s real high, and every few years it rains during the Mud Run. But, regardless of the weather conditions any given year, players always come away with lasting memories and the satisfaction that on-ice activities are only a couple days away after completing Cyclone Hockey’s biggest and most historic rite of passage.

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Off-Ice Training

When it comes to the players’ off-ice training during the season, Cyclone Hockey takes a professional approach and holds the players personally responsible to keep themselves in shape during the season and allows the players a lot of time flexibility to work around the demands of their academic schedule and to help ensure players are able to get maximal sleep as often as possible to allow for recovery and for rebuilding their body on the grind of a 44- to 50-game ACHA Men’s Division 1 schedule.

Players have one to three required workouts each week, which often includes a fitness class held by Iowa State University Recreation Services announced by the coaching staff Sunday night that the players must complete before Wednesday. Beyond that, players are responsible for their own weightlifting and training regiments during the season to help maintain their conditioning and strength. As Iowa State students, Cyclone Hockey athletes have two quality facilities on campus to work out at, for no additional cost, in the Lied Recreation Center and the newly renovated State Gym.

The Lied Recreation Center, which opened in 1990, is a 220,000 square– foot facility with a vast array of equipment and workout options to pick from. Players will generally use the third floor a lot, as it is where the 8,000 square-foot weight and training area is located that features an excellent selection of free weights, weightlifting machines, and other training implements. It also has a number of stationary bikes, elliptical machines, treadmills, climbers, and rowing machines to work the cardiovascular system. Also extremely useful is the 1/5th-mile jogging track that has a straightaway right off the weight and training area. The facility also features a precision cycling room, an aerobics room, a 1,000 square foot climbing wall, and numerous basketball courts, volleyball courts, racquetball courts, and an artificial turf area that can be highly useful for shuttle sprints and the like.

On the west side of campus, the newly renovated State Gym offers Cyclone Hockey athletes a second, high-quality facility to maintain and improve their conditioning. The renovations, completed in the spring of 2012, offer Iowa State students another weight and training area with free weights and weightlifting machines, another jogging track, and dozens (of each) of elliptical machines, treadmills, climbers, and stationary bikes, including a dedicated spin room. State Gym also features a pool that players can use for an alternate method of total-body training that is also low-impact. The pool also includes designated areas for water volleyball and water basketball and has a 9-meter diving tower. On top of the pool amenities, which include a 16’ x 9’ television, State Gym also houses a 40-foot rock climbing wall and a 13-foot bouldering wall that can be used to improve grip strength and body control.

Cyclone Hockey stresses personal responsibility with its players, both in hockey and in life, and players serious about their strength and conditioning and the maintenance of their body have ready access to two high-caliber facilities where they can keep themselves in top shape to excel and perform on the ice.

Top: Photo from inside State Gym looking out upon the fitness and strength area, the climbing wall, and the pool in the distance. Photo courtesy of ISU Recreation Services. Middle: The Lied Recreation Center lobby, a place Cyclone Hockey players serious about their conditioning will get to know well. Photo courtesy of ISU Recreation Services. Bottom: A pair of Cyclones participating in pre-season fitness testing, held the first two days of pre-season training. This allows the Cyclone Hockey coaching staff to gauge where players are physically, to make sure they’re healthy, and that they’ve been working hard in the off-season. Photo by ISU Recreation Services.

Off-Season Training

Cyclone Hockey’s off-ice training during the pre-season focuses on fitness assessments and team bonding and the team’s conditioning focuses primarily on maintenance during the season, although players can still make gains in-season, but the team focuses on gains in strength and conditioning from early April through early August.

®Following the American Collegiate Hockey Association National Tournament, which wraps up in early March, players are generally given two to three weeks to recover from the rigors of the six-month regular season before post-season fitness assessments are performed to gauge where players are at in their conditioning heading into the off-season.

For decades, Cyclone Hockey has provided its players with weekly workouts to last the entire season. Each week consists of four workouts with each week featuring a weight training component supplemented by a plyometrics component, cardiovascular component, plyometrics component, and/or an agility component.

The team’s weightlifting routines are built on the time-tested concept of periodicity to maximize strength gains and build injury resistance. Players start with a Hypertrophy Phase that builds muscular endurance by keeping weights and rest intervals low but the repetitions high. After two to three weeks of the Hypertrophy Phase, players are then moved into a Strength Phase that lasts four weeks where weights are increased and rest intervals are also bumped up slightly as the number of repetitions are decreased. Then, to close out the period, players move to the Power Phase, where they are challenged with sets of high weights and lower repetitions but supersetted with traditional, functional exercises designed to build explosive power in every muscle group.

A player’s weightlifting routine each day is far from the extent of his workout, though. In the first few weeks of the off-season training, weight training is followed up with cardiovascular training

protocols that focus on treadmill interval training, amongst other cardiovascular machines. As the off-season progresses, cardiovascular protocols are replaced more and more by plyometrics protocols, agility protocols, and interval training. All of these protocols are designed to replicate optimum shift durations or slightly more in an attempt to stretch players to play at near maximum levels for 25 to 30 seconds, remain strong at 45 seconds, and to still remain physically competitive if a shift goes long.

On top of the weight training components and the supplemental components mentioned above, players are to undertake core protocols during each workout, too. Cyclone Hockey has long understood that athletic performance for hockey players relies heavily on core strength and players following the workouts will often spend 20 to 30 minutes a day on their core alone.

Then, on top of workouts completed at the gym and/or the track (interval training), players are also expected to complete skill protocols to help players improve their stickhandling and to build forearm, wrist, and hand strength and coordination as players stickhandled tennis balls or golf balls around pre-determined setups designed to allow a player to comfortably handle the puck anywhere around his body. Cyclone Hockey has long known that a player that can only handle the puck in front of him will struggle to excel at the ACHA Men’s Division 1 level or even competitive ACHA Men’s Division 2 hockey.

If undertaken as designed, with warm-up routine and stretching routines also built in before and after workouts, players can expect to spend three to four hours each workout day on their conditioning. Some players, D1 and D2 alike, even add their on-ice skill development to these off-season workouts to train like NHL hockey players.

Iowa State University

In 1862, the United States passed the Morrill Act, which created a new type of university. These land-grant institutions were based on the ideas that higher education should be open to all, universities should teach practical subjects (like farming, engineering, and home economics), and faculty members should share knowledge with people throughout their respective states. Iowa was the first state to accept the law’s provisions and established Iowa State University as the first land-grant institution.

Today, Iowa State is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive university, a designation reserved for universities that offer a wide variety of baccalaureate programs and graduate studies through the doctorate.

The academic programs at Iowa State include highly effective first-year programs, a wide variety of majors, and some of the world’s leading research in the biological and physical sciences. Iowa State’s eight colleges offer more than 100 undergraduate degrees and nearly 200 fields of study. Due to this commitment to education, Iowa State University is consistently ranked among the “Top 50 Public National Universities” by U.S. News & World Report. The publication also distinguishes Iowa State as having one of the best learning community programs for undergraduate students.

Iowa State University is among the nation’s leading universities in research and technology transfer accomplishments. In recent years, Iowa State has launched bold new research and technology transfer initiatives in such important areas as agricultural biotechnology, plant and animal genomics, bioinformatics, “smart” materials, agricultural product and market development, human nutrition, human computer performance, biorenewables, and food safety and security. For this high level of research, R&D Magazine, Iowa State ranked second among universities in the nation for the number of top technologies, a distinction likened to the Oscars of science.

The picturesque 2,000-acre campus includes more than 160 buildings, many of which are included on the National Register of Historic Places. Perhaps Iowa State’s most recognizable landmark is the iconic 19th century Campanile located on central campus which houses the bells of the Stanton Memorial Carillon. Central campus itself was one of only three university campuses named a “medallion” site by the American Association of Landscape Architects, a distinction acknowledging the natural beauty of the area.

Reiman Gardens is another popular destination at Iowa State, combining beauty with the furthering of education. The 14-acre display garden was renovated in 2002 to include a conservatory complex which houses a restaurant, an auditorium, a butterfly wing, numerous greenhouses, and a gift shop. The year prior to renovation, Reiman Gardens received the All-American Rose Selections President’s Award as the nation’s most outstanding public rose garden.

The university is not alone in its accolades; the city of Ames is also highly regarded in many respects. Ames ranked as the nation’s second most desirable small city to live in by the New Rating Guide to Life in America’s Small Cities and the 20th overall best place to live by Men’s Journal. The quality of life in Ames is exemplified by such awards as “Toast of the Tap,” recognizing the city as having the third best drinking water in the nation, and “Tree City USA,” a distinction for active involvement with the National Arbor Day Foundation.

Together, Iowa State University and the city of Ames have created a community rich in education, opportunities, and experiences.

Top: The Campanile, a landmark on Iowa State’s central campus, rising up through some nearby trees. Above: Beardshear Hall, another landmark at Iowa State, as seen across central campus. Photos by Rachel Haukkala.

Ames/ISU Ice Arena

As the condition of the Cyclone Area Community Center (CACC) continued to deteriorate in the late 90s due to a malfunctioning ice plant that was cost prohibitive to repair, the need for a new ice arena became undeniable for the Ames and Iowa State community. After significant efforts by many, the Ames/ISU Ice Arena was completed in the summer of 2001 and has been one of the finest ice sheets and cleanest ice rinks in the entire state of Iowa ever since.

Co-owned by the City of Ames and Iowa State University, and operated by the Ames Parks and Recreation Department, the Ames/ISU Ice Arena cost $3.7 million to construct, with $1.7 million coming from Iowa State through student fee commitments, $1.7 million coming from the City of Ames through the passage of a bond issue, and $300,000 in personal donations, with Cyclone Hockey’s own Dr. Alan Murdoch one of the key figures in spearheading all three drives. Designed by RDG Bussard Dikis and constructed by Harold Pike Construction, the new arena was a significant upgrade over the CACC.

For ice users, the most immediately noticeable improvements were the perfectly flat ice sheet and the perpendicular boards, as the ice sheet at the CACC had developed a dome-like shape and moguls due to the malfunctioning ice plant, which had likewise altered the angles of the boards from 90 degrees. Not far behind the perfect, new ice sheet was the inclusion of seven full-sized locker rooms and an additional locker room specifically for on-ice officials. Three of the locker rooms included deluxe player stalls on par with those used by professional ice hockey teams, with one dedicated for the Ames Minor Hockey Association (AMHA) and used by the Ames Little Cyclones high school hockey team, one utilized by the ISU Women’s Ice Hockey Club, and the third by Cyclone Hockey. The remaining four locker rooms ensured that other ice users and visiting teams were also able to use spacious, well-kept locker rooms with shower and restroom facilities. Local and visiting teams alike also immediately took notice of the roomy player benches, which easily allow for a full 22-man international roster on each bench and considerable room behind the benches for coaches, trainers, and other team personnel.

Other amenities at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena include comfortable, high-quality plastic bleacher seating for 1,000 spectators, standing room for 250 more on a spacious concourse, and additional area in the lobby from which to watch games along the glass. Fans attending hockey games and other ice events at the arena are also treated to a clean, well-stocked concession area for food, snacks, and beverages while at the arena. For fan safety, protective netting is installed above the glass all around the ice surface except for in front of the players’ benches, which allows fans young and old alike to enjoy games with little worry and which also helps prevent arena damage that other arenas have to deal with.

The Ames/ISU Ice Arena even features benefits for hockey fans not at the arena. A press box area with ethernet ports and phone lines allows for teams, such as Cyclone Hockey, to broadcast games online live for fans around

the world to enjoy.

Home not only to Cyclone Hockey, the ISU Women’s Ice Hockey Club, and the AMHA, the Ames/ISU Ice Arena is also used by the Ames Figure Skating Association, the local adult hockey league, and Iowa State University for intramural ice hockey, curling, and the ever-popular broomball. The arena has played host to the ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Tournament, the Midwest High School Hockey League Tournament, and even USA Hockey’s Midwest Bantam Development Camp.

For 20 years, Ames and Iowa State had to make do with the facilities at the CACC, which were definitely better than having no arena at all, but now both the city and the university can take pride in a state-of-the-art arena that is well-maintained and kept in nearly immaculate condition, looking as good 16 years later as the day of its grand opening late in the summer of 2001. The Ames/ ISU Ice Arena is a facility that Cyclone Hockey is proud to call home, proud to show to recruits, proud to welcome opponents to, and proud to invite fans of all ages to come to and enjoy fastpaced, action-packed, and exciting college hockey.

Top: The Ames/ISU Ice Arena during the third period of a game between the Iowa State Cyclones and the Arizona State Sun Devils.

Above: Inside the locker room used by Cyclone Hockey’s ACHA Men’s Division 1 team, which features stalls for 26 players, 3 goaltenders, an entertainment center, and shower and restroom facilities.

Hockey Office

For many years, Cyclone Hockey had a modest office inside the old State Gym, then in the basement of the Industrial Education II building, but in recent years had no central office. That came to an end when a building that already had tremendous history with Cyclone Hockey found a new purpose.

The old Cyclone Area Community Center, Ames’ ice arena before the Ames/ISU Ice Arena was finished in 2001, is still used as a storage facility for the university, but the old entrance and over 2,600 square feet inside of it has been repurposed as Cyclone Hockey’s new office. The glass is new, but long-time fans will still recognize the structure of the front doors that lead into the lobby, from which the Hall of Excellence is easily visible. The Hall of Excellence has team awards mounted for all to see the Cyclones who have won each team award over the decades, as well as the Cyclone Hockey Hall of Fame members. If one heads down the hallway and turn right, they’ll head into the room with the assistant coaches’ offices are and another right will lead to Head Coach and General Manager Jason Fairman’s office. On top of some storage and two restrooms, the office also features a meeting table surrounded by white boards, which can be used by the coaching staff or marketing staff, but which also features computers which the players can use for their studies or for friendly games of table tennis. The table tennis can be moved, though, and the room easily set up for team meetings for the players of both the Division 1 and Division 2 teams or for area employers to give presentations to the players as potential employees after graduation.

The office is fully furnished thanks almost entirely to tradeout with advertisers and gives Cyclone Hockey a base to work out of that any other ACHA team or NCAA Division III team would be envious. It’s another step forward for one of the top organizations in the ACHA.

Top: Banner outside of the Cyclone Hockey office from the parking lot of the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. Middle: Front doors of the new Cyclone Hockey office, which once served as the front doors of the Cyclone Area Community Center. Above Left: Hall of Excellence located inside the Cyclone Hockey Office, with all team awards mounted on the wall. Above Right: Brian Wierson and Chris Schmale of REG conducting a presentation to the Cyclone Hockey players.

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