Ron Fogarty's tenure as head coach of the Princeton University men's hockey team has come to a close after 10 years. It was announced today by athletic director John Mack that Fogarty will not return behind the bench at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink next season.
Fogarty fashioned a 90-169-27 overall record as head coach of the Tigers since the 2014-15 campaign (the 2020-21 Ivy League season was canceled by COVID-19). In 2018, he led the Tigers to the Whitelaw Cup as ECAC Hockey postseason champions, and also Princeton's first NCAA tournament berth since 2009. This season, Princeton went 10-16-4 overall, and finished ninth in ECAC Hockey with an 8-11-3 mark. The Tigers fell at Harvard, 1-0, in the first round of the 2024 ECAC championship on March 8 in what was Fogarty's final game.
Prior to his time at Princeton, Fogarty built the NCAA Division III program at Adrian College in Michigan from scratch, beginning in 2007-08. The Bulldogs went 167-23-10 in seven seasons under Fogarty and earned four NCAA Division III tournament berths, including a national runner-up finish in 2011. He also led Adrian to six Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season championships, and five MCHA playoff titles.
A native of Sarnia, Ont., Fogarty, 52, played four seasons (1991-1995) as a forward at Colgate University, where he scored 51 goals and added 90 assists for 141 points for the Raiders, while making the All-ECAC Rookie team as a freshman. After playing professionally for several years, he went on to become an assistant coach at Clarkson University and Bowling Green before taking the reins at Adrian.
Fogarty's combined NCAA head coaching record with the Tigers and Bulldogs stands at 257-192-37. Princeton is now expected to conduct a national search for his successor.
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