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Jared DeMichiel

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
Phone:
355-1639

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, RIT (2010)
Master's degree in Management, Nazareth (2014)

Collegiate Playing Experience:
RIT, 2006-10
   Atlantic Hockey Champion (2008, 2009, 2010)
   NCAA Qualifier (2008, 2009, 2010)
   NCAA Frozen Four (2010)

Previous Coaching Experience:
Assoc. Head Coach, UMass, 2016-22
National Champion, 2021
National Runner-Up, 2019
Hockey East Champion, 2021, 2022
Assistant Coach, St. Lawrence, 2014-16
Assistant Coach, Nazareth, 2011-14

Jared DeMichiel joined the Michigan State hockey staff as the first hire by head coach Adam Nightingale in the summer of 2022. Recognized as one of the top recruiters in college hockey and one of the rising stars in the profession, DeMichiel has not only had a significant impact on the meteoric on-ice rise of the program under Adam Nightingale, but also in bringing highly-rated prospects to East Lansing in each of his first three classes.

His first two goaltending pupils at MSU – Dylan St. Cyr (2022-23) and Trey Augustine (2023-24) - both earned Big Ten postseason accolades. St. Cyr was an honorable mention pick and backstopped the Spartans to the first-ever Big Ten postseason victories in school history before moving on to a professional career in France. The youngest starting goaltender in the country over the last two seasons, Augustine is a two-time Richter Award semifinalist finalist, and in 2025 was not only for the Richter, but also one of six finalists the AAU Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the nation. Augustine not only helped MSU to consecutive Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles (2024 and 2025) but also became Team USA’s winningest goaltender in program history after playing in a third straight IIHF World Junior Championship and earning back-to-back gold medals for the first time in the nation’s history. He has also tutored Luca Di Pasquo, giving MSU the top goaltending tandem in the Big Ten as Di Pasquo went 7-0 with a 1.70 GAA in 2024-25, delivering two shutouts and a .933 save percentage with wins over three Big Ten opponents as well as No. 4 Western Michigan to earn a Great Lakes Invitational title.
DeMichiel oversees the development of the Spartan defensive corps – as one of the youngest units in college hockey over the last two seasons, the Spartans have been increasingly stingier in their own end, dropping their team scoring defense from 3.1 goals allowed per game in both 2022-23 and 2023-24 to surrendering an average of just 2.1 per game in 2024-25. At the same time, Michigan State’s defensive corps upped its own offensive prowess, with four 16+ point scorers, a combined 19-80-99 scoring output, and four of the five returning blueliners posting career-best offensive numbers. Cole Krygier signed a NHL with Los Angeles at the conclusion of the 2022-2023 season, while three of his defensive recruits to East Lansing have been selected in the last two NHL Drafts – No. 2 overall selection Artyom Levshunov (2^nd overall, Chicago) and Patrick Geary (172^nd overall, Buffalo) in 2024, and second-round selection Maxim Štrbák (45^th overall, Buffalo) in 2023.    Levshuov earned All-America honors and was both the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in addition to earning spots on the All-Big Ten First Team and All-Rookie Team in 2024, most recently Matt Basgall was a First Team All-B1G selection and finalist for Defensive Player of the Year.

From 2016-22, DeMichiel was on staff at Massachusetts, first as an assistant coach and, beginning in 2019, the associate head coach. One of the bright rising assistants in the collegiate game, he spent six seasons at UMass with head coach Greg Carvel and helped lead the Minutemen to their first-ever NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship in 2021, first-ever Frozen Four in 2019, and capturing Hockey East tournament titles in 2021 and 2022. Over his six seasons at UMass, DeMichiel was instrumental in turning a team which went 5-29-2 in 2016-17 when the staff arrived in Amherst to making the Frozen Four in year three (2018-19) and winning a national championship in year five (2020-21). Over his final four seasons at UMass (2018-22), the Minutemen compiled a record of 94-39-7 (.696).

In his six years, UMass had five All-America selections, two Hobey Baker finalists (and one winner), two Hockey East Players of the Year, one Hockey East Rookie of the Year, two Hockey East scoring champions, 18 All-Hockey East selections, and 103 Academic All-Hockey East selections.
DeMichiel coached the Minutemen's penalty kill to an 86.9 success rate in 2018-19, which ranked fifth nationally. UMass' stellar PK also helped the squad finish as the national leader in combined special teams (57.9%). In 2019-20, the squad followed up by once again ranking in the top-10 nationally in penalty kill (86.6%, ninth) and scoring defense (1.97, sixth). En route to a National Championship in 2020-21, the Minutemen led the nation with a program-record 91.7% penalty kill percentage and a boasted the nation’s best combined special teams (57.9%), while allowing just 48 goals in 29 games, a new program record. During the national championship season, the Minutemen finished second in the nation in scoring defense at 1.66 goals per-game and ranked in the top-10 in the country in that category for a third straight season.

Eleven Minutemen were drafted in DeMichiel’s time at UMass: Cale Makar (4^th overall, Colorado) and Mario Ferraro (49^th overall, San Jose) in 2017, John Leonard (182 overall, San Jose) in 2018, Zac Jones (68^th overall, New York Rangers), Marc Del Gaizo (109^th overall, Nashville) and Lindberg (197^th overall, Minnesota) in 2019, Matthew Kessel (150^th overall, St. Louis) and Lucas Mercuri (159^th overall, Carolina) in 2020 and Scott Morrow (40^th overall, Carolina), Josh Lopina (95^th overall, Anaheim), Ryan Ufko (115^th overall, Nashville) and Taylor Makar (220^th overall, Colorado) in 2021.

DeMichiel first joined forces with Carvel at St. Lawrence (2014-16), where DeMichiel was the Saints’ primary recruiter and he played a pivotal role as the Saints put together 20- and 19-win seasons with second- and fourth-place ECAC finishes, respectively, during his time in Canton.

DeMichiel got his start in coaching working under George Roll, starting the hockey program at Nazareth College (2011-14). In three seasons of recruiting for Nazareth, his recruits collected one second team All-America honor, one ECAC West Rookie of the Year, five all-conference and four all-rookie honors for the Golden Flyers.

The summer of 2012, DeMichiel began his annual work at the USA Hockey National Select Festival.

A former Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) goaltender, DeMichiel won three Atlantic Hockey Association regular season titles and one postseason AHA Championship in his four-year career. In his senior season he led all of Division I with 27 victories, was second in shutouts (six), seventh in goals against average and eighth in save percentage. He paced RIT to the 2010 Frozen Four and holds RIT’s Division I record for career victories and wins in a season by a goaltender. In 2010, DeMichiel led the AHA in every major statistical category and was a first-team AHA all-star selection. He also was named Goaltender of the Year and made the AHA all-tournament team. DeMichiel was tabbed the Most Outstanding Player at the 2010 East Regional and was honored as the Rochester Press-Radio Club’s 2010 Paychex Male College Athlete of the Year.

Following graduation, DeMichiel signed with the American Hockey League’s Hershey Bears. He attended NHL training camps with the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins. In addition to Hershey, DeMichiel played with Providence in the AHL as well as South Carolina Stingrays, Elmira Jackals, Kalamazoo Wings and Chicago Express of the East Coast Hockey League.

DeMichiel graduated from RIT in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in business management and he received his master’s degree in management from Nazareth in 2014. A native of Harwinton, Connecticut, DeMichiel and his wife Kara have a daughter, Paige, and son, Jordan.