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Men's Ice Hockey
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Men's Ice Hockey
Brendan Whittet
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Brendan Whittet enters his 11th season as an assistant on the Dartmouth College staff and 14th season overall in collegiate coaching. He is considered to be among the elite young coaches and recruiters in the country. Whittet is known for possessing a keen eye for assessing talent along with an energetic and determined demeanor. He is a tireless worker and a knowledgeable and passionate teacher of the game. An East Providence, R.I., native, Whittet graduated from Brown University in 1994 with a bachelor of arts degree in organizational behavior and management.
With the Big Green, Whittet has been involved in a variety of roles in the program including recruiting, video analysis, off-ice skill development, NCAA compliance issues, working primarily with the Dartmouth defensemen and overseeing the team’s penalty-killing unit.
Whittet arrived at Dartmouth College before the start of the 1998-99 season after serving for one year as an assistant coach at both Brown University and Colby College. Whittet began his coaching career in 1994-95 by serving two years as assistant coach on Bob Gaudet’s staff at Brown.
While at Dartmouth, the program has enjoyed a tremendous resurgence, capturing the 2005-06 Cleary Cup as the ECAC Regular Season Champions. Recently the Big Green posted seven-consecutive winning seasons including two 20-win seasons and a 19-win season during the past six years. Dartmouth also captured the Ivy League Championship during in 2006-2007 season. The Big Green has hosted a home playoff series during the seven-consecutive winning seasons and progressed to the league championships in 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2005-06 as well as the ECAC final five in both the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons.
The progression of the defensive unit has also seen a similar transformation, reaching a milestone during the 2004-05 season when the team recorded its lowest goals against average in 44 years. Dartmouth allowed 2.37 goals per game that placed the defensive unit among the elite teams nationally. A similar trend can be seen in the penalty kill. The 2004-05 unit finished with an 86.1 percent kill ratio that placed statistically in the top 10 in the country.
Before his arrival at Dartmouth, Whittet’s teams at Brown and Colby both experienced success. In 1995, his first season coaching the Bears, Brown won the Ivy League Title. In 1996-97 Colby finished with a 19-6-1 record and captured the ECAC East Playoff Championship.
For the past twelve summers, Whittet has worked for the New England District at various USA Hockey Select Summer Festivals. This past summer he was named as an assistant coach for the United States Under-17 National Select Team that competed in the 5 Nations Tournament that was held in Prievidza, Slovakia. The tournament included the national teams from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. The United States team won the silver medal with a 3-1, record falling only to the Czech Republic. Whittet has also been the head coach for the New England Select-16 team that participated in the 2000 USA Festival that went undefeated in the tournament. Whittet also serves as a member of the New England Select coaching staff that works with elite New England players ranging in age from 13-18.
A former defenseman in his playing days at Brown, Whittet was a four-year letterwinner. In his playing career, he appeared in 74 games and helped lead the Bears to an Ivy League title in 1992, two trips to the ECAC Final Four Championship in 1993 and 1994, and an NCAA at-large tournament team selection in 1993. During Whittet’s high school career he was a two-time Rhode Island all-state and all-league selection at perennial powerhouse Mount St. Charles. He was named the Rhode Island Defensive Player of the Year in 1988-89. Whittet also played for Southern New England in the Junior Olympics in 1989, before heading to the Kent School for a postgraduate year.
Whittet, his wife, Karen, and their daughters, Peyton and Addyson, reside in Hartford, Vt.
With the Big Green, Whittet has been involved in a variety of roles in the program including recruiting, video analysis, off-ice skill development, NCAA compliance issues, working primarily with the Dartmouth defensemen and overseeing the team’s penalty-killing unit.
Whittet arrived at Dartmouth College before the start of the 1998-99 season after serving for one year as an assistant coach at both Brown University and Colby College. Whittet began his coaching career in 1994-95 by serving two years as assistant coach on Bob Gaudet’s staff at Brown.
While at Dartmouth, the program has enjoyed a tremendous resurgence, capturing the 2005-06 Cleary Cup as the ECAC Regular Season Champions. Recently the Big Green posted seven-consecutive winning seasons including two 20-win seasons and a 19-win season during the past six years. Dartmouth also captured the Ivy League Championship during in 2006-2007 season. The Big Green has hosted a home playoff series during the seven-consecutive winning seasons and progressed to the league championships in 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2005-06 as well as the ECAC final five in both the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons.
The progression of the defensive unit has also seen a similar transformation, reaching a milestone during the 2004-05 season when the team recorded its lowest goals against average in 44 years. Dartmouth allowed 2.37 goals per game that placed the defensive unit among the elite teams nationally. A similar trend can be seen in the penalty kill. The 2004-05 unit finished with an 86.1 percent kill ratio that placed statistically in the top 10 in the country.
Before his arrival at Dartmouth, Whittet’s teams at Brown and Colby both experienced success. In 1995, his first season coaching the Bears, Brown won the Ivy League Title. In 1996-97 Colby finished with a 19-6-1 record and captured the ECAC East Playoff Championship.
For the past twelve summers, Whittet has worked for the New England District at various USA Hockey Select Summer Festivals. This past summer he was named as an assistant coach for the United States Under-17 National Select Team that competed in the 5 Nations Tournament that was held in Prievidza, Slovakia. The tournament included the national teams from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. The United States team won the silver medal with a 3-1, record falling only to the Czech Republic. Whittet has also been the head coach for the New England Select-16 team that participated in the 2000 USA Festival that went undefeated in the tournament. Whittet also serves as a member of the New England Select coaching staff that works with elite New England players ranging in age from 13-18.
A former defenseman in his playing days at Brown, Whittet was a four-year letterwinner. In his playing career, he appeared in 74 games and helped lead the Bears to an Ivy League title in 1992, two trips to the ECAC Final Four Championship in 1993 and 1994, and an NCAA at-large tournament team selection in 1993. During Whittet’s high school career he was a two-time Rhode Island all-state and all-league selection at perennial powerhouse Mount St. Charles. He was named the Rhode Island Defensive Player of the Year in 1988-89. Whittet also played for Southern New England in the Junior Olympics in 1989, before heading to the Kent School for a postgraduate year.
Whittet, his wife, Karen, and their daughters, Peyton and Addyson, reside in Hartford, Vt.
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