Head Coach: Shawn Bates 

Coach Bates has extensive playing experience including four years of Division 1 hockey at Merrimack College and six years of professional experience in the ECHL and Southern Professional Hockey League. He has worked as an on ice coach for Fort Hockey Development and Driscoll Power Skating and founded Beauty Nation Hockey Training, a personal training clinic for young student-athletes.

Assistant Coach - Jon Gistis

Coach Gistis joined Pingree in the 2011-2012 academic year and works in Pingree’s History department. Prior to joining Pingree, coach Gistis was an assistant coach with the Winchester Girls’ Varsity High School team and the U16 Bay State Breakers boys’ team. As a player, coach Gistis played his prep school hockey at Tabor Academy where he participated in two Elite 8 tournaments. Following Tabor, Coach Gistis matriculated to Trinity College in Hartford, CT where he was a member of the 2003 NESCAC champion Bantams team. Coach Gistis believes in the power of hockey and athletics to help mold young people into well-rounded and responsible adults through a focus on team goals, sacrifice, and hard work. In addition to coaching hockey and teaching History, coach Gistis also coaches tennis at Pingree. He lives locally with his wife and three children.

Goalie Coach: Mike Boccuzzi

Coach Boccuzzi enters his second season with the Pingree hockey team. He spent 8 seasons as a goalie/assistant coach with Beverly High School including their state championship-winning season in 2013-14. Boccuzzi, a goalie for over 30 years brings both experience and a passion for the position, is a graduate of Bishop Fenwick High School, and Salem State University. He is currently employed as a police officer and resides in Beverly.