Dick Umile

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Dick Umile
Biographical details
Born (1948-12-21) December 21, 1948 (age 74)
Melrose, Massachusetts
Playing career
1969–1972 New Hampshire
Position(s) Forward
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1975–1985 Watertown HS (MA)
1985–1987 Providence (assistant)
1988–1990 New Hampshire (assistant)
1990–2018New Hampshire
Head coaching record
Overall598–375–114 (.603) [college]
Tournaments14–18 (.438)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1997 Hockey East regular season champion
1999 Hockey East regular season champion
2002 Hockey East regular season champion
2002 Hockey East tournament champion
2003 Hockey East regular season champion
2003 Hockey East tournament champion
2007 Hockey East regular season champion
2008 Hockey East regular season champion
2010 Hockey East regular season champion
Awards
1991 Bob Kullen Coach of the Year Award
1997 Bob Kullen Coach of the Year Award
1999 Bob Kullen Coach of the Year Award
1999 Spencer Penrose Award
2002 Bob Kullen Coach of the Year Award
2007 Bob Kullen Coach of the Year Award
2007 Italian-American Hall of Fame
2009 New Hampshire Legends of Hockey
2010 Bob Kullen Coach of the Year Award

Richard Umile (born December 21, 1948) is a former American men's ice hockey coach at the University of New Hampshire. Coaching the Wildcats from 1990 through the 2018 season, Umile led UNH to the most wins in school history. [1]

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Career

Dick Umile was UNH’s coach from 1990 to 2018. He attended the University of New Hampshire from 1968 - 1972, and played hockey for legendary UNH coach Charlie Holt. Upon graduation, Umile began his coaching career with the Watertown (Mass.) High School Red Raiders . He was named head coach in 1975, and proceeded to rebuild the previously unsuccessful team into a state champion during the next ten years. [2] In 1985, Umile jumped into the college ranks by becoming assistant coach to the newly appointed head coach at Providence College, former UNH teammate Mike McShane, where Dick worked for two years prior to becoming a scout for the NHL St.Louis Blues. [3]

In 1988 Umile ran into Bob Kullen who was recovering from a recent heart transplant and was enticed to return to his alma mater as an assistant coach. Two seasons later, Kullen's health took a sudden turn for the worst and Umile was thrust into the head coaching position just prior to the 1990–91 season. [4] The season soon became dedicated to Kullen when the former coach died on November 2 [3] and the team responded by giving New Hampshire its first winning season in seven years. [1] After the season, Umile was awarded with Hockey East's Coach of the Year Award, newly renamed in Bob Kullen's Honor. [5]

The Wildcats advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time in a decade. [1] Four years later New Hampshire would win its first Hockey East Regular season title, and its first conference title in 23 years, behind a then-record 28-win season. Two years later the Wildcats would post their first 30-win season and marched all the way to the 1999 NCAA Championship Game before being defeated by conference rival Maine, 3-2 in overtime. [6] New Hampshire would continue to perform strongly under Umile, returning as a semi-finalist in the 2002 NCAA Frozen Four tournament, and then making it back to the Frozen Four Championship game in 2003, where the Wildcats lost to Minnesota, 5-1.

Over the course of his 28 years at the helm, Umile coached the Wildcats to 22 winning seasons, with twenty of them having at least 20 wins. He holds the school record for most statistical categories including Frozen Four appearances (4), NCAA Tournament appearances (18), consecutive tournament appearances (10), and Conference Regular season Titles (7), and is the only coach in school history to provide conference tournament titles (2002 and 2003). For his efforts, Umile received the Bob Kullen Coach of the Year Award a record six times, [7] as well as the Spencer Penrose Award in 1999. [8] Dick was named to both the Italian-American Hall of Fame (2007) and the New Hampshire Legends of Hockey (2009). [9] He retired after the 2017-18 season.

Head coaching record

College

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
New Hampshire Wildcats (Hockey East)(1990–2018)
1990-91 New Hampshire 22-11-210-9-25th Hockey East Quarterfinals
1991-92 New Hampshire 24-11-215-4-21st† NCAA East Regional Quarterfinals
1992-93 New Hampshire 18-17-311-11-23rd Hockey East Consolation Game (loss)
1993-94 New Hampshire 25-12-313-9-23rd NCAA East Regional semifinals
1994-95 New Hampshire 22-10-414-6-4-03rd NCAA East Regional Quarterfinals
1995-96 New Hampshire 12-18-48-12-4-16th Hockey East Quarterfinals
1996-97 New Hampshire 28-11-018-6-0t-1st NCAA East Regional Quarterfinals
1997-98 New Hampshire 25-12-115-8-13rd NCAA Frozen Four
1998-99 New Hampshire 31-7-318-3-31st NCAA runner-up
1999-00 New Hampshire 23-9-613-5-62nd NCAA West Regional Quarterfinals
2000-01 New Hampshire 21-12-613-8-54th Hockey East Quarterfinals
2001-02 New Hampshire 30-7-317-4-31st NCAA Frozen Four
2002-03 New Hampshire 28-8-615-5-41st NCAA runner-up
2003-04 New Hampshire 20-15-610-8-64th NCAA Northeast Regional semifinals
2004-05 New Hampshire 26-11-515-5-4t-2nd NCAA Northeast Regional final
2005-06 New Hampshire 20-13-714-7-64th NCAA East Regional semifinals
2006-07 New Hampshire 26-11-218-7-21st NCAA Northeast Regional semifinals
2007-08 New Hampshire 25-10-319-5-31st NCAA West Regional semifinals
2008-09 New Hampshire 20-13-515-8-43rd NCAA Northeast Regional final
2009-10 New Hampshire 18-14-715-6-61st NCAA East Regional final
2010-11 New Hampshire 22-11-617-6-42nd NCAA Northeast Regional final
2011-12 New Hampshire 15-19-311-14-26th Hockey East Quarterfinals
2012-13 New Hampshire 20-12-713-8-6t-3rd NCAA Northeast Regional final
2013-14 New Hampshire 22-18-111-9-0t-4th Hockey East runner-up
2014-15 New Hampshire 19-19-210-11-18th Hockey East Semi-Finals
2015-16 New Hampshire 11-20-64-12-610th Hockey East first round
2016-17 New Hampshire 15-20-57-10-410th Hockey East Quarterfinals
2017-18 New Hampshire 10-20-65-14-511th Hockey East Opening Round
New Hampshire:598-375-114326-220-90
Total:598-375-114

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

† Maine was required to forfeit 13 games after the conclusion of the season and subsequently dropped from 1st place to 3rd, though they are still considered league champions for the year [10]

See also

  1. 1 2 3 "New Hampshire Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  2. ↑ "Richard Umile". Watertown High School Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  3. 1 2 "True to His School". Seacoast Online. 2002-04-03. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  4. ↑ "Dick Umile Year-By-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  5. ↑ "Robert A. Kullen '71". Bowdoid Polar Bears. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  6. ↑ "NCAA Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  7. ↑ "Hockey East Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  8. ↑ "NCAA Division I Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  9. ↑ "Dick Umile". New Hampshire Wildcats. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  10. ↑ "2013-14 Hockey East Media Guide". Hockey East. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Bob Kullen Coach of the Year Award
1990–91
1996–97
1998–99
2001–02
2006–07
2009–10 (With Mark Dennehy)		Succeeded by
Preceded by Spencer Penrose Award
1998–99 		Succeeded by

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