Steve Kosakowski

Steve Kosakowski was an American collegiate ice hockey coach. He would serve as the head coach of the UMass Minutemen then Massachusetts Redmen. He would serve a head coach from 1954 to 1967. He would help rebuild the program to somewhat respectable levels under his tenure compiling a 73-118-4 record during his tenure. During his tenure the team would return to hosting games, which it rarely did from the late 1930's on due to poor conditions with the UMass Amherst Pond. He would also coach the school during the founding of the ECAC Hockey conference with UMass being one of 28 teams to help found the conference in 1961. Since the university didn't have a dedicated indoor facility they were dropped to the ECAC College Division (equivalent of NCAA Division II today) in 1964 when the ECAC was split up with most of the top schools playing in the University Division and the others playing in the college division. He would be succeeded by Jack Canniff.