Keith Fisher will be named the new head coach at Lindenwood
Penn State associate head coach Keith Fisher will be named the new head coach at Lindenwood University, sources confirmed to College Hockey Insider on Saturday.
Fisher takes over for Bill Muckalt, who left for the head coaching job at Michigan Tech a little more than two weeks ago. Fisher is fresh off a run to the Frozen Four with the Nittany Lions.
Fisher’s relationship with Penn State head coach Guy Gadowsky goes back to 2005, when Fisher joined Gadowsky’s staff at Princeton. He went with Gadowsky to Penn State to start the program there in 2011, and he was named associate head coach in 2018.
A St. Cloud State graduate, he was a graduate assistant with the Huskies and coached five seasons in the USHL with the Omaha Lancers from 2000 to 2005.
Lindenwood went 8-22-2 last season but turned a corner at the end of the season, going 6-7-1 in their final 14 games after Jan. 10.
Lindenwood will host the inaugural United Collegiate Hockey Cup, an end-of-season tournament for college hockey’s independent programs, at the Centene Community Ice Center next March.
McMahon: I’ll have more on Fisher’s hiring in our next newsletter edition.
Also, Judge Claudia Wilken approved the House v. NCAA settlement late Friday night, ushering in a new era in college athletics. Our next newsletter (which I’m currently in the process of writing) will detail what that means for college hockey, including many of the specifics regarding roster limits and more.