University of Minnesota Athletics
Men's Hockey
Hamre, John
John Hamre
- Title:
- Director of Operations
- Email:
- hamr0001@umn.edu
- Phone:
- 612-624-6889
John Hamre is in his second season as Minnesota’s director of hockey operations for men's hockey after joining the Gophers in 2017.
A three-time graduate of the University of Minnesota, Hamre brings more than 25 years of hockey experience to the Gophers coaching staff.
Hamre most recently served as the director of hockey operations at Wisconsin during the 2015-16 season. His extensive hockey background also includes tenures in the ECHL, the NAHL, the EHL and the AJHL as well as nine seasons as the boys varsity hockey coach at The Blake School from 2002-11.
He has also worked at the international level – serving as video assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Team during the 1994 Winter Olympic Games and later acting as a training camp assistant coach for the South African National Team in 2016.
His first coaching position came at the University of Minnesota as a graduate assistant coach during the 1991-92 season followed by two seasons as the Gophers’ video coordinator and administrative assistant (1992-94).
Hamre earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Minnesota in 1991 before adding an MBA with a finance emphasis in 1993 and a Ph.D through the College of Education and Human Development in 2007.
A three-time graduate of the University of Minnesota, Hamre brings more than 25 years of hockey experience to the Gophers coaching staff.
Hamre most recently served as the director of hockey operations at Wisconsin during the 2015-16 season. His extensive hockey background also includes tenures in the ECHL, the NAHL, the EHL and the AJHL as well as nine seasons as the boys varsity hockey coach at The Blake School from 2002-11.
He has also worked at the international level – serving as video assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Team during the 1994 Winter Olympic Games and later acting as a training camp assistant coach for the South African National Team in 2016.
His first coaching position came at the University of Minnesota as a graduate assistant coach during the 1991-92 season followed by two seasons as the Gophers’ video coordinator and administrative assistant (1992-94).
Hamre earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Minnesota in 1991 before adding an MBA with a finance emphasis in 1993 and a Ph.D through the College of Education and Human Development in 2007.
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