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Chris Hathaway - Squirt A Head Coach
Chris was born and raised in Syracuse, NY where he played and coached for Midstate Youth Hockey and the Syracuse
Stars. His playing career finished with one year of college hockey at SUNY Cortland. Chris began his
coaching career 21 years ago in Syracuse and then continued onto New York City.
Upon his arrival in the Bay Area, Chris created and formed the Cougars. Although he greatly enjoys
overseeing the club, his greatest experiences come from coaching kids within the program from Mites to Midget 18AA.
Sean Connolly - Squirt 2 Head Coach
Sean, originally from Boston, got his start playing youth hockey in the Boston area
before moving to California. Growing up he played for the Berkeley Bears Bantam AA
and Midget AA teams (which included a State Midget AA Championship in 1979),
and played Tier Hockey for the Norcal Bantam AAA and Midget AAA teams.
In high school, Sean moved to Canada where he played Junior B hockey for the
Calgary Blackhawks of the Calgary Junior Hockey Association,
and then returned to New England to play Junior A hockey for the Nashua Huskies
of the New England Junior Hockey League (now known as the New England Jr. Huskies of the EJHL)
under coach Leo Gould.
Sean went on to play at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell, where he played one year
under coach Bill Riley, before transferring to Boston University where he played four years
of college hockey as a member of the Junior Varsity team under coach Ben Smith,
and as a Varsity Reserve under coach Jack Parker.
Sean has coached both in-house and travel Bantam and Midget teams for the Cougars since 2005.
Land Ormiston - Squirt 3 Head Coach
Land grew up playing youth and high school hockey in the great hockey mecca of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
When the weather got cold and the ponds would freeze, Land and his Dad would always be out
skating - unfortunately that only happened a few times in 18 years.
Land moved to the East Coast for college, played club hockey at Amherst College,
and honed his hockey fanaticism while living in Boston for 10 years.
Land started coaching youth hockey shortly after relocating to the Bay Area in 2000,
and enjoys working with the younger kids at the developmental level.
Land now cheers for his local San Jose Sharks but still bleeds bleu-blanc-et-rouge
for his childhood favorite Montreal Canadiens.
Brandon Roberts - Pee Wee Head Coach
Hometown: Lake Crystal, Minnesota. Brandon played for Mankato High School there, where he was
All-Conference from 1999-2001 and Captain of his team in 2000-01. He was drafted after high school by the
Cedar Rapids Rough Riders in the USHL and played Junior "A" in both the NAHL & AWHL. He was awarded
a scholarship to Colorado College (NCAA, Div I, WCHA) and who won the MacNaughton Cup (regular season conference
championship) in 2002-03 and 2004-05, and played in the 2005 Frozen Four (final four Division I hockey teams) in
Columbus, OH. Brandon also won the 2004-05 Colorado College Skills Competition Speed Skating Championship.
He was teammates with two Hobey Baker winners (Peter Sejna, Marty Sertich) and with former San Jose Shark, Tom Preissing.
Andy Baker - Pee Wee Assistant Coach
Andy has 19 years of hockey experience, including playing four seasons of AAA hockey (played in the Tier 1 National
Championships 3 times), 2 seasons of Junior B in the Empire League, and one year of club hockey with Boston
University. He also played 3 seasons of high school varsity hockey. He was assistant captain of Brandon
Roberts' (Pee Wee Head Coach) during high school and in juniors.
Mario Morrissette - Pee Wee 98 AA and Pee Wee 99 AA Head Coach
Click here to see Mario's bio
Zac Lytle - Bantam 1 Head Coach
Zac is a USA Hockey Level 4 coach. He has coached all ages and skill levels from Mite in-House to Midget AAA.
He has coached several different Norcal teams over the past 10 years. Although winning and losing is a big
part of the youth hockey environment, Zac prides himself on developing all the players on his teams. He
believes that all players should have the chance to succeed and fail in all situations to truly develop as players and
people.
The Cougars are excited about Zac joining the Cougar staff this season.
Dave Guy - Bantam 2 Head Coach
Dave was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and moved to California when he was one. He began
skating at 6 years old, and moved to ice hockey at 7 with the Santa Clara Blackhawks. After
playing youth hockey, he began playing club hockey for University of Southern California, and San
Jose State. He began coaching when he was 16, and has coached for 13 years. David used
his other main interest, motorcycle racing, to make a living selling motorcycles. He recently
ended his professional motorcycle racing career which has allowed him to focus more on coaching.
Pat Foley - Midget 16A Head Coach
Pat Foley's most recent coaching effort resulted in a Cougar Bantam B Norcal championship. He started coaching
with the original in-house program at the Cupertino rink in the early 90's. Over the next several seasons he
was a coach for several Cougar Championship Pee Wee, Bantam, and Midget teams.
Pat grew up in Boston during the Bobby Orr era. After playing mostly pond and street hockey growing up,
he played club hockey in college on the East and West Coasts including San Jose State as his last stop.
Pat enjoys working with "B" teams to give them the proper development and growth to help them surpass their peers
who were more worried about the letter "A" after their team name then actual player development.
Seth Frigo - Midget 16A Head Coach
Seth began his hockey career at the young age of 6, playing for the Berkeley Bulldogs in Berkeley, CA.
He continued to play for the Bulldogs until the age of 16, when he joined the California Gold Rush tier team
in Roseville, CA. After high school graduation, Seth played hockey at the Vermont Academy in Saxton River,
VT (college prep) from 2006-07, and then in 2007-08 he played college hockey at Becker College (Div III) in
Worcester, MA. In 2009, Seth had the pleasure of assisting the Cougars 18A team in winning the Norcal
Championship as well as becoming the runner-up for the CAHA State Championship.
Aaron Mullagh - Midget 18AA Head Coach
Aaron hails from Burnaby, British Columbia where he began his hockey career at age 3 and has never turned back.
Aaron spent his youth playing travel hockey for two B.C. clubs, Coquitlam and Port Moody. He concluded his
youth hockey playing for the Markham Thunder AAA team. Aaron got his first coaching job at the young age
of 14. Some of his coaching highlights include the British Columbia Hockey School, Japanese National Team
and, of course, the Cougars. You may also run into him as a ski instructor in Tahoe or hear him on your
radio as a D.J.
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