Grant Kimball joined the Yale staff for the 2019-20 season and helped the program to a record 17 victories.
With Kimball on the staff, the 2019-20 Bulldogs set a program record for wins, including a school-best six consecutive, while the team totals for assists (2nd), points (3rd) and goals (4th) all made the record book. That 17-15-0 team made the ECAC Hockey Tournament after finishing fifth with a school-record 13 conference wins. The Elis took their playoff series at Harvard to three games before falling in triple overtime in the finale.
The 2021-22 Bulldogs won 26 games, finished ranked No. 4 in Division I and appeared in their first NCAA Tournament and Frozen Four. Yale beat Colgate at Hamilton in the NCAA Quarterfinals before falling 2-1 to No. 1 and eventual national champion Ohio State at the Frozen Four.
His efforts helped the Elis smash almost every team record at both ends of the ice on the way to a 26-9-1 (16-5-1 ECAC) campaign.
Kimball helped lead the Bulldogs to even greater heights in 2022-23, shattering most of the records set in the previous year, including wins (28), ECAC victories (19), goals (132), assists (231). Yale won the ECAC regular season title for the first time in program history and made it to the conference semifinals. The Bulldogs were selected to compete in the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year, ultimately falling to Northeastern in the first round.
Prior to Yale, Kimball served as an assistant and associate head coach at several Division I schools including North Dakota and the University of Vermont.
The former Lake Forest College defenseman spent seven seasons as Vermont’s Associate Head Women’s Ice Hockey Coach, where he managed recruiting and individual skill development.
Prior to his time with the Catamounts, Kimball was a recruiting coordinator, assistant and associate head coach of Wayne State University. In 2005, he recruited the most productive freshman class in the country, as the newcomers tallied 154 points that season.
Kimball, a Harvard, Mass., native, took charge of Aurora University’s women’s hockey program as its inaugural head coach during the 2018-19 campaign.
In addition to his collegiate hockey coaching experience, Kimball served as the director of development camps and the co-coach of the USA Hockey Girls National Select U-14 Camp.
