Thursday, August 21, 2025

College Hockey’s Spengler Cup Team Unveils Front Office, Support Staff

Tournament Takes Place December 26-31 in Davos, Switzerland

College Hockey’s Spengler Cup Team Unveils Front Office, Support Staff

The United States Collegiate Select hockey team has announced the front office and support staff for the 2025 Spengler Cup and Steve Metcalf (Hockey East), Sean Hogan (College Hockey Inc.), Chris Meriney (College Hockey Inc.) and Don Lucia (CCHA) will make up the front office, while Josh Penn (UMass), Aaron Leu (Denver), Perry Laskaris (CCHA) and Cameron Boon (Quinnipiac) are on the team’s staff.

The Selects will be the first team of its kind to participate in the 97th edition of the prestigious international event in Davos, Switzerland, this December.

Sixth-year Hockey East Commissioner Steve Metcalf will act as the U.S. Collegiate Select’s general manager, while Sean Hogan, the second-year Executive Director at College Hockey Inc., will be the Assistant General Manager. With the assistance of several NHL scouts and the coaching staff, they will aid in the selection of the 25 student-athletes that will make up the team’s roster.

Joining them in the front office are College Hockey Inc. Director of Men’s Athlete Relations Chris Meriney, who is in his second year as the Director of Team Operations, and fifth-year Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) Commissioner and hall of fame head coach Don Lucia will take on a senior advisory role.

A support staff with 70 years of combined college hockey experience includes long-time University of Massachusetts Director of Equipment Operations Josh Penn as the team’s equipment manager, and the University of Denver’s Aaron Leu as the athletic trainer, who is entering his 22nd year with the Pioneers. Perry Laskaris from the CCHA is a former sports information director at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and will handle the team’s communications, while Cameron Boon from Quinnipiac University has taken on social media manager duties.

All six NCAA men’s hockey conferences are represented in the group with a few positions still to be filled before the team heads to Switzerland.

The U.S. Collegiate Select team will be made up of 25 student-athletes from across NCAA men’s ice hockey, with each conference being represented. The competition runs from December 26-31, with the six participating teams playing a minimum of two contests apiece. Along with the Selects, host HC Davos, Team Canada, HC Fribourg-Gotteron, Sparta Praha and IFK Helsinki will be taking part in the 2025 edition.

This will be the second time an American-based select team has taken part in the Spengler Cup, following a U.S. squad that won the tournament in 1988.

For more information on the Spengler Cup, visit www.spenglercup.ch/en.

Contact: Perry Laskaris
Director of Communications
United States Collegiate Selects
Laskaris@ccha.com
(651) 308-1065