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Rob Morgan, who earned multiple coach of the year honors while spending five seasons as the head coach at St. Norbert’s College, joined the Yale women’s ice hockey staff as associate head coach in the summer of 2015. Earlier in his career Morgan served in a similar position for six seasons at Dartmouth, helping the Big Green make five NCAA Tournament appearances.
In his first season with the Bulldogs (2015-16), Morgan helped the team to a five-game winning streak, and three individuals earned All-Ivy League recognition.
Prior to coming to Yale Morgan went 78-49-12 in five seasons at St. Norbert’s, earning NCHA Coach of the Year honors after leading the team to a school-record 19 wins in 2013-14. He was named NCAA Division III West Region Coach of the Year after leading the Green Knights to an NCHA title in 2012-13, when the team beat UW-River Falls 3-2 in overtime in the championship game of the NCHA O’Brien Cup Playoffs. St. Norbert's made its first NCAA Division III Tournament appearance a week later, falling to No. 1 Plattsburgh State 5-2 in a national quarterfinal game.
Morgan, St. Norbert’s first coach, led the program to a successful inaugural season in 2010-11. Playing with a roster composed entirely of freshmen, the Green Knights went 12-11-4 overall and 9-8-3 in the NCHA. St. Norbert defeated NCAA Division III Tournament qualifier Adrian College and also picked up two ties against another NCAA Tournament squad in UW-River Falls.
In addition to team accomplishments, Morgan’s efforts at recruiting and player development also resulted in numerous individual honors for his St. Norbert’s student-athletes. During his tenure the Green Knights had one CoSIDA Academic All-American, two All-Americans, one USCHO all-freshmen team selection, nine NCHA All-Conference selections, six NCHA all-freshmen team selections, one NCHA Freshman of the Year and seven NCHA All-Tournament team selections.
Before taking over at St. Norbert’s, Morgan spent six years at Dartmouth (2003-04 through 2008-09), helping the Big Green to five NCAA Tournament appearances -- including three straight from 2007 through 2009. Dartmouth was 128-53-18 during his tenure.
In his time at Dartmouth Morgan helped the Big Green advance to the ECAC Hockey Tournament semifinals five times. The team won two ECAC Hockey Tournament championships, one ECAC Hockey regular season championship and a pair of Ivy League championships. Morgan coached four Olympians, 13 Under-22 national team players and one All-American. He also coordinated recruiting and coached the defensemen.
Prior to arriving at Dartmouth, Morgan was the head coach at North Country Community College in Saranac Lake, N.Y., finishing with a 15-4-1 record and leading the team to the 2003 NEWCHA championship. During the 2001-02 season Morgan was the general manager and head coach of the Medicine Hat Hawks. He was later selected to coach one of eight teams at the Alberta Winter Games, where his team went undefeated and won the gold medal. In 2000-01, Morgan led the University of Lethbridge’s team which finished fourth in the Canada West Universities Athletics Association at 16-11-3. He was named Canada West Hockey Coach of the Year. From 1995 through 2000 he served as Medicine Hat College’s athletics director.
In addition to his collegiate coaching, Morgan has coached at multiple camps -- and was selected to coach at Hockey Canada's National Women's Development Team selection camp in August of 2016. He also has coached at USA Hockey’s Central District Development Camp, which he began working in 2010. Also, he has served on multiple committees with various hockey organizations, including the AWHCA.
Morgan graduated from the University of Alberta in 1992 with a bachelor of physical education degree. He earned his master’s degree in education from the University of Lethbridge in 2003.
Morgan and his wife, Rhonda, have two children, Braden and Brooke.
Updated July 20, 2016
