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Jerry (Pip) Hotarek - Mite Head Coach
Jerry, or Pip as we know him, grew up in Foster City where he played his early youth hockey for the Cougars
and Jr. Sharks before heading off to Shattuck. Pip spent many of his summers assisting in various hockey
camps locally and around the country. After returning home last fall he coached with the Cougars Squirt A team.
By working with the Mite-age travel group he hopes to use his extensive experience to help them develop the
actual skills needed to bring them success on the ice throughout their playing days.
Hockey Experience
- Four years at Shattuck St. Mary's School
- 2 years Junior "A" (NAHL, OJHL)
- HC Rebel Havlickuv Brod Czech 1 liga
- Mississippi Surge SPHL
Awards and Achievements
- 2000-2004 Shattuck St. Mary's Preparatory School
- 2005-2006 Awarded Offensive Defenseman of the Year
- 2008-2009 Top Ten ECAC in scoring among defensemen
- 2008-2009 ECAC All Academic Team
- 2009-2010 ECAC player of the week
- 2010-2012 games with HC Rebel, participated in game vs. Spartek (KHL)
Sean Connolly - Squirt B1 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 Midget AA State Championship in 1978-1979.
Sean also played AAA hockey for NorCal as a Bantam and a Midget.
In high school, Sean moved to Canada where he played Junior hockey
for the Calgary Blackhawks of the Calgary Junior Hockey League,
and then returned to New England to play Junior 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 player under coach Jack Parker.
Sean has coached both in-house and travel Squirt, Bantam, and Midget
teams for the Cougars since 2005.
Sean is a USA Level IV advanced certified coach.
Matt Adams - Squirt B2 Head Coach
Matt is a local product from San Mateo, starting his travel hockey career at the young age of
five years old. He played on several "A" and Tier Level Cougar teams, including the Bantam
A team of 2003 which won the State Championship.
Matt went on to play college hockey at UC Irvine (ACHA Division III), and was named team captain
in his senior year.
Matt has been part of the Cougars Program since 2002, and looks forward to continuing his coaching
career with his hometown team.
Aaron Mullagh - Pee Wee A 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.
Subra Narayan - Pee Wee B Head Coach
Subra was born in the hot bed of hockey, Madras, India. His parents learned of his hockey talents
and promptly moved to the other hot bed of hockey, Montreal, Canada, where he played travel hockey
until the age of 12.
In his last year of organized hockey, Subra's team won the Quebec provincial championships !!.
Since then he's been on and off the ice playing recreationally in high school and college,
and most recently in the beer leagues of San Mateo.
Subra has coached in the in-house program in San Mateo since 2005, and now brings that knowledge
and experience to the travel program. Subra can often be seen during San Jose Sharks games
at HP Pavilion serving as an off-ice official for the National Hockey League.
Subra has broken his elbow, broken a rib, has had bursitis in both shoulders,
had a grade 3 ankle sprain and has had six stitches from taking a puck in the face (ouch)...all from playing hockey,
but refuses to stay away from the rink.
Be Good.
Mario Morrissette - Bantam AA Head Coach
Click here to see Mario's bio
Dave Guy - Bantam A 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.
Rob Tenore - Bantam B Head Coach
Rob was born and raised in San Jose, CA, and played multiple sports growing up. Rob started playing hockey at
the age of 13, and hasn't been off the ice for more than a month since then.
Rob's hockey experience starts with the San Jose Blades Midget A team, where he was the starting goalie from
1995-98. He also played for the Nor Cal Mavericks roller hockey team, and earned the right to compete at NARCh
(North American Roller-hockey Championships) in Chicago, July 1996.
In 1997 he was a counselor for the Rick Heinz Goalie School, and in 1998 he was scouted by the (now defunct) Kainai
Screaming Eagles in Alberta, Canada, and was also invited to the Boston Jr. Bruins scouting camp.
He moved to Pensacola, Florida in 2000 to pursue hockey, and during that time he was a co-counselor of a local
Pensacola goalie camp with Scott LaGrand 1988 Phi. Flyers draftee and Pensacola Ice Pilots starting goalie 1999-2001),
and also coached high school roller hockey before being invited to the Pensacola Ice Pilots Training Camp (ECHL) in 2001.
Since returning to San Jose in 2002, Rob continued to play hockey at a competitive level and has been coaching on a
1:1 consultant basis. In 2009 Rob joined the California Cougars Midget 16A team as a goalie coach. Last
year he was an assistant coach/goalie coach for the Cougars Squirt B1 team. This coming season will be Rob's
first year as a head coach, and he looks forward to continuing the development of our Cougars players and preparing
them for the next level.
Zac Lytle - Midget 16AA 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.
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