UMass Boston

Ryan McGrathreturns to UMass Boston for his fourth season on the Beacons'bench.

McGrath owns animpressive coaching background and a wealth of experience coachingcollege caliber players, having spent the last four years coachingon the junior hockey circuit, including the previous three seasonswith the Portland Junior Pirates. He helped call the shots as theAssociate Head Coach of the Pirates' Junior A team in the AtlanticJunior Hockey League from 2006-08, before being named the HeadCoach for the Junior B squad of the Metropolitan Junior HockeyLeague last season. Prior to his arrival in Portland, McGrath wasan Assistant Coach for the Northern Cyclones of the MJHL for the2005-06 campaign.

Thenative of Reading, Massachusetts has not been limited toinstruction in junior hockey circles. In the spring of 2006 and2007, McGrath was selected by USA Hockey to coach at the NewEngland Yankee Conference Festival. He also served as the HeadCoach for the East Coast Selects 93's during the Summer AAA seasonthis past summer.

Aformer defenseman, McGrath starred at Reading High School and ledthe Rockets to a USA Today number 11 national ranking aswell as three Middlesex League Championships. McGrath also puttogether a fine junior hockey career with the Tyngsboro Huskies ofthe Eastern Junior Hockey League from 1998-2000 and was tabbed atop 10 blueliner by the Red-Line Report.