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| Born | July 17, 1922 Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Died | March 17, 2000 (age 77) Durham, New Hampshire, U.S. | ||||||||||||
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Competitor for  United States of America
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| Bronze | 1949 Stockholm | |
Charlie Holt (July 17, 1922 – March 17, 2000) was an American ice hockey coach. He was the head coach of the University of New Hampshire from 1968 thru 1986.[1] He is one of three 3-time recipients of the college ice hockey National Coach-of-the-Year Award (the others being Len Ceglarski and Jack Parker).[2]
Career[]
Holt began coaching men's ice hockey immediately after graduating from Dartmouth in 1946. He spent one year each at Cranbrook Schools and Melrose High School before joining the US National Team for the 1949 World Ice Hockey Championships helping the Americans to a bronze medal finish, their first medal since the start of World War II. A few years later Charlie found himself behind the bench for Northwood School where he would remain as head coach from 1955-1962 before he got his first collegiate offer.[3]
Holt's college head coaching career began just after he turned 40 in 1962–63 when he took over at Colby College. At the time the Mules were competing in the 28-team ECAC Hockey mega-conference as a Division I program but, two years later when the conference was split, Colby was placed in the Division III league and had competed as such ever since. While Holt wasn't able to lead Colby into the postseason while they were a D-I team, once they dropped down into the lower division he got them to three ECAC playoff appearances in four seasons.[4] After Rube Bjorkman departed New Hampshire to take over the top job at North Dakota the Wildcats announced Holt as their head coach starting with the 1968–69 season.[5]
Holt started his career in Durham off with a bang, earning the Wildcats a 22-win season as well as their first conference postseason appearance. Despite falling in the first round to Harvard Holt was awarded the Spencer Penrose Award by the American Hockey Coaches Association. Holt continued to have great success with New Hampshire over the next several years, recording winning seasons in each of the following ten campaigns, making the ECAC postseason tournament nine times in that span and winning both the regular season and conference tournament title once. Even after recording his first losing record with New Hampshire in 1979–80 season Holt brought the Wildcats back to prominence two years later with three consecutive 20-win seasons and two straight NCAA tournament berths. The returns began to diminish, however, once New Hampshire left the ECAC to become a founding member of Hockey East. In the first year Holt recorded only his second losing season with the Wildcats followed by a 5-win campaign, New Hampshire's worst record in over three decades.[5] Holt stepped down after the 1985–86 season, allowing long-time assistant Bob Kullen to take over.
After taking a few years off Holt returned to his old stomping grounds of high school hockey when he was named as the head coach for Berwick Academy. He stayed in that position for seven years before retiring for good in 1996. In 1997 Holt was inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame.[6] On March 17, 2000 Charlie Holt died as a result of cancer, He was survived by his wife Nancy and their two children: Brad and Brenda.[7] Holt has received several posthumous honors, including being inducted into both the New Hampshire (2002) and Massachusetts (2006) Hockey Halls of Fame and being named the 2010 Hobey Baker Legend of College Hockey.[8][9]
Head coaching record[]
College[]
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Colby Mules (ECAC Hockey) (1962–1964) | |||||||||
| 1962-63 | Colby | 7-14-0 | 6-11-0 | ||||||
| 1963-64 | Colby | 5-14-1 | 6-12-1 | ||||||
| Colby: | 12-28-1 | 12-23-1 | |||||||
| Colby Mules (ECAC 2) (1964–1968) | |||||||||
| 1964–65 | Colby | ||||||||
| 1965–66 | Colby | ||||||||
| 1966–67 | Colby | ||||||||
| 1967–68 | Colby | ||||||||
| Colby: | 53-43-3 | ||||||||
| New Hampshire Wildcats (ECAC Hockey) (1968–1984) | |||||||||
| 1968–69 | New Hampshire | 22-6-1 | 10-5-1 | 5th | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1969–70 | New Hampshire | 19-10-2 | 9-6-2 | 7th | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1970–71 | New Hampshire | 20-9-0 | 11-9-0 | 9th | |||||
| 1971–72 | New Hampshire | 20-10-0 | 12-6-0 | 5th | ECAC Third Place Game (Win) | ||||
| 1972–73 | New Hampshire | 16-10-3 | 11-8-0 | 5th | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1973–74 | New Hampshire | 22-9-0 | 15-5-0 | 1st | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1974–75 | New Hampshire | 21-9-1 | 17-7-1 | 5th | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1975–76 | New Hampshire | 24-7-0 | 22-6-0 | 2nd | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1976–77 | New Hampshire | 27-12-0 | 21-6-0 | 2nd | NCAA Consolation Game (Loss) | ||||
| 1977–78 | New Hampshire | 18-12-0 | 14-11-0 | 8th | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1978–79 | New Hampshire | 22-10-3 | 17-5-3 | 2nd | NCAA Consolation Game (Loss) | ||||
| 1979–80 | New Hampshire | 12-18-0 | 9-15-0 | 13th | |||||
| 1980–81 | New Hampshire | 19-13-1 | 13-10-1 | 8th | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1981–82 | New Hampshire | 22-14-0 | 15-7-0 | 3rd | NCAA Consolation Game (Loss) | ||||
| 1982–83 | New Hampshire | 22-11-2 | 15-5-1 | 3rd | NCAA Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1983–84 | New Hampshire | 20-17-1 | 13-8-0 | 2nd | ECAC Quarterfinals | ||||
| New Hampshire: | 326-187-14 | 224-159-9 | |||||||
| New Hampshire (Hockey East) (1984–1986) | |||||||||
| 1984–85 | New Hampshire | 16-26-1 | 12-21-1 | 4th | Hockey East Quarterfinals | ||||
| 1985–86 | New Hampshire | 5-29-3 | 5-27-2 | 7th | Hockey East Quarterfinals | ||||
| New Hampshire: | 21-55-4 | 17-48-3 | |||||||
| Total: | 412-313-22 | ||||||||
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National Champion
Conference Regular Season Champion
Conference Tournament Champion
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See also[]
References[]
- ↑ "Charlie Holt Year-By-Year Coaching Record", USCHO.com. Retrieved on 2014-07-04.
- ↑ "NCAA Awards", College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved on 2014-07-04.
- ↑ "A Charlie Holt Timeline", University of New Hampshire. Retrieved on 2014-07-04.
- ↑ "Men's Ice Hockey—Coaches' Records", Colby College. Retrieved on 2014-07-04.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "New Hampshire Men's Hockey Team History", USCHO.com. Retrieved on 2014-07-04.
- ↑ "Enshrinees", US Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2014-07-04.
- ↑ "Charlie Holt; New Hampshire Hockey Coach, 77", New York Times, 2000-03-18. Retrieved on 2014-07-04.
- ↑ "Previous Legends", Hobey Baker.com. Retrieved on 2014-07-04.
- ↑ "Legendary coach Charlie Holt Honored at Hobey Baker Awards Banquet", New Hampshire Wildcats, 2010-05-11. Retrieved on 2014-07-04. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14.
External links[]
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Ned Harkness Len Ceglarski Jack Parker |
Spencer Penrose Award 1968–69 1973–74 1978–79 |
Succeeded by John MacInnes Jack Parker Rick Comley |
| New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey | |
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| Formerly the New Hampshire Bulls (1924-1926) | |
| Playing venues | No Home (1924-1925) - UNH Ice Rink (1925–1955) - Harry C. Batchelder Rink (1955–1965) - Snively Arena (1965–1995) - Whittemore Center (1995–present) |
| Head coaches | Hank Swasey (1924–1925) - Ernest Christensen (1925–1936, 1937–1938) - Carl Lundholm (1936–1937) - George Thurston - (1938–1939) - Anthony Dougal (1939–1943, 1946–1947) - Joseph Petroski (1947–1951) - Horace "Pepper" Martin (1951–1962) - A. Barr Snively (1962–1964) - Rube Bjorkman (1964–1968) - Charlie Holt (1968–1986) - Bob Kullen (1986–1987, 1988–1990) - Dave O'Connor (1987–1988) - Dick Umile (1990–2018) - Michael Souza (2018–present) |
| Seasons | 1924–25 - 1925–26 - 1926–27 - 1927–28 - 1928–29 - 1929–30 - 1947–48 - 2014–15 - 2019–20 - 2020–21 - 2021–22 - 2022–23 - 2023–24 |
| Conference affiliations | Independent (1924-1943, 1946- 1961) - ECAC Hockey (1961–1964, 1966–1984) - ECAC 2 (1964–1966) - Hockey East (1984–present) |
| Rivalries | Dartmouth - Maine |
| Culture & lore | Throwing Out the Fish - Whiteout the Whitt |
| All-time leaders | Ralph Cox (243 Points) - Ralph Cox (127 Goals) - Kevin Regan (70 Wins) |
| Frozen Four appearances | 1977 - 1979 - 1982 - 1998 - 1999 - 2002 - 2003 |
| NCAA Tournament appearances | 1977 - 1979 - 1982 - 1983 - 1992 - 1994 - 1995 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004- 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2013 |
| Conference Tournament titles | ECAC Hockey: 1979 Hockey East: 2002, 2003 |
| Hobey Baker winners | Jason Krog (1999) |
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