The 2013-14 season will be the third at Lake Forest for headcoach Ryan McKelvie and his sixth as a collegiate coach.
The Foresters secured a spot in the six-team Midwest CollegiateHockey Association playoffs in each of McKelvie’s first twoseasons behind the bench. Lake Forest also split the first twogames of both quarterfinal series at Milwaukee School ofEngineering before falling in a decisive 20-minute mini-game.
McKelvie’s 2012-13 squad went 9-6-5 after Thanksgiving andfinished seven-and-a-half games ahead of the previous season, thesecond-best improvement in the nation.
Goaltender Brendan Sullivan was an All-MCHA selection in 2012-13after posting the second-lowest goals against average in programhistory. Defenseman Ben Certo earned MCHA All-Freshman Team honorsafter leading league players at his position in goals.
A league-high-tying eight Foresters were named to the 2012-13MCHA All-Academic Team and Lake Forest also led the league withseven selections in 2011-12.
Prior to coming to Lake Forest, McKelvie served for one seasonas an assistant coach at the University of Anchorage-Alaska. The2010-11 Seawolves posted their best Western Collegiate HockeyAssociation record since joining the league in 1993. He was theteam’s recruiting coordinator and academic advisor andassisted the head coach in nearly every aspect of theprogram.
McKelvie spent the previous two years as the associate headcoach of the expansion Wenatchee Wild in the North American HockeyLeague. The Wild were 92-33-7 in his two seasons with the team andfinished among the top three teams in the nation in their first twoyears of existence. His responsibilities spanned all facets of theprogram, which was directed by Paul Baxter, a 12-year NHL assistantcoach and four-year head coach in the AHL/IHL.
McKelvie began his collegiate coaching career as a graduateassistant at Bemidji State University from 2006-08. The Beaversposted a 22-10-8 record in College Hockey America play during histwo years on staff and claimed a CHA regular season title in2007-08. He served under head coach Tom Serratore, a three-time CHACoach of the Year.
His coaching experience also includes two years as the headcoach of the ‘92 Minnesota Jr. Mavericks AAA team, eightyears as a head coach at John Bazzachini’s summer training,and four years as a coach at the USA National Select 15 and 17festivals.
McKelvie played at Minnesota State University from 2002-06 andis the first three-year captain in program history. He was also athree-time member of the WCHA Student-Athlete All-Academic Team andwas nominated for the league’s Scholar Athlete of the Yearaward. The 2002-03 Mavericks advanced to the NCAA Division INational Championship Tournament.
McKelvie earned a bachelor’s degree in physical educationfrom Minnesota State and recently completed his master’sdegree in sports studies from Bemidji State.
He and his wife Megan live in Lake Forest.
