Bob Peters
| Sport(s) | Ice hockey |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Fort Frances, Ontario |
| Playing career | |
| 1957–1958 | North Dakota |
| Position(s) | Goaltender |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1961–1964 | North Dakota (assistant) |
| 1964–1966 | North Dakota |
| 1966–2001 | Bemidji State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 744–313–51 (.694) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1963 NCAA National Champion (assistant) 1965 WCHA Regular Season Champion 1967 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1968 NAIA National Champion 1969 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1969 NAIA National Champion 1970 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1970 NAIA National Champion 1971 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1971 NAIA National Champion 1973 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1973 NAIA National Champion 1974 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1976 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1977 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1978 ICHA Regular Season Champion 1979 NAIA National Champion 1980 NAIA National Champion 1982 NCHA Regular Season Champion 1984 NCHA Regular Season Champion 1984 NAIA National Champion (D-II) 1985 NCHA Regular Season Champion 1986 NCHA Regular Season Champion 1986 NCHA Tournament Champion 1986 NCAA National Champion (D-III) 1987 NCHA Tournament Champion 1991 NCHA Regular Season Champion 1993 NCAA National Champion (D-II) 1994 NCAA National Champion (D-II) 1995 NCHA Regular Season Champion 1995 NCHA Tournament Champion 1995 NCAA National Champion (D-II) 1997 NCAA National Champion (D-II) |
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Robert H. "Bob" Peters is a retired men's ice hockey coach. He was the head coach of the Bemidji State University ice hockey team from 1967 to 2001. With 744 wins, he ranks fifth all-time in career wins by a men's college ice hockey coach.
Peters entered the college hockey head coaching ranks in 1964 as bench boss at the University of North Dakota. During his initial campaign, Peters, the eventual Western Collegiate Hockey Association Coach of the Year, led the Fighting Sioux to a WCHA title and a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships. He coached in Grand Forks for two seasons, leading the Sioux to a 42–20–1 mark before making a career decision that would change the face of collegiate hockey.
Peters left the Division I powerhouse in 1966 and took over at Bemidji State University. Within two seasons Peters led BSU to its first national championship and set the foundation for what would become one of the most dominant programs in college hockey.
Thirty-five years later, Peters retired from coaching with one of the most impressive lists of achievements in the history of collegiate sports: 744 victories as a head coach, 702 coming at Bemidji State alone, to make Peters the first coach to win 700 or more games at a single school; 13 small-college national championships; and still-standing national collegiate records for most wins in an unbeaten season (31–0–0 in 1983–’84) and longest unbeaten streak (43 games from Nov. 8, 1983 to Jan. 1, 1985).
Peters, the only coach to lead a team to a national championship game in three divisions of college hockey and the only coach to reach the Final Four in all four divisions (Division I, II, III and NAIA), developed five NHL players and numerous Olympians and All-Americans.
A 1960 graduate of the University of North Dakota, Peters spent his collegiate days at goaltender for the Fighting Sioux. He coached at the high school level for one season before rejoining the UND staff as an assistant coach.
Retired from coaching, Peters remained heavily involved in the sport of college hockey. In 2001 he became the commissioner of the College Hockey America (CHA) conference.
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