Tom O’Malley, Head Coach

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Assistant Coach Alain Frankiewicz

With 16 years experience behind him, Tom O’Malley will begin his second season as Wayne State University’s women’s hockey team.

In October of 1999, the Warriors began its NCAA Division I women’s hockey program and brought the prestige of being the only NCAA Division I women’s program in the state of Michigan. In the Warriors’ inaugural season, Wayne State finished with a 11-0 record versus non NCAA schools and a 0-21 record versus NCAA opponents. O’Malley currently posts a 137-198-28 overall record within his 15 years of coaching.

O’Malley, who was hired in May 1999, comes to Wayne State after coaching for 15 years at Boston College. O’Malley guided Boston College’s women’s hockey program from the ground up in the 1980’s and was also named the head coach as the university raised the team’s status to Division I. He is proud of the fact that while at Boston College he won two AWHCA National Championship (1992 & 1993) and numerous other tournaments.

O’Malley started at Boston College as an assistant coach and took over the head coaching position in 1984. As the leader of the program, O’Malley amassed the highest win total in team history. Besides handling all the team’s day-to-day operation, including practices and games, O’Malley provided guidance and direction through all the team’s academic and athletic activities including scheduling, equipment inventory and maintenance, recruiting and travel, and even driving the zamboni.

O’Malley graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree in economics from the College of Arts and Sciences, after graduating from Don Bosco Technical High School in Boston. He also played collegiate hockey at Boston College. O’Malley, 37, is single and resides in Farmington Hills, Michigan.