Matt Cunningham completed his first season as an assistant coach in 2019-20.
Cunningham came to Hanover from the West Coast, where he worked with two California-based USA Hockey Model Club Associations (Anaheim Jr. Ducks and Jr. Reign). In addition to assisting with 14U, 15U and 16U AAA boys' teams and working as a program director, he helped guide team-building, off-ice training and long-term athlete development guidelines.
He worked at USA Hockey's National Office in Colorado Springs from 2009 to 2017. While there, he helped drive coach education initiatives and player development best practices. While based in California in recent years, he continued to support USA Hockey as a regional scout for the National Team Development Program. He also supported girls' hockey as a lead scout at various district player development camps and as an on-ice director and skills coach at USA Hockey's National Player Development Camps held in St. Cloud, Minnesota, each summer.
Cunningham graduated from Minnesota State, Mankato, with a degree in mass communications in 2000. He went on to get his Master of Arts in sport management from MSU in 2009.