Charlie Holt
| Sport(s) | Ice hockey |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | July 17, 1922 Melrose, Massachusetts |
| Died | March 17, 2000 (age 77) Durham, New Hampshire |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1946–1947 | Cranbrook Schools |
| 1947–1948 | Melrose High School |
| 1955–1962 | Northwood School |
| 1962–1968 | Colby |
| 1968–1986 | New Hampshire |
| 1989–1996 | Berwick Academy |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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ECAC Hockey Regular Season Championship (1974) ECAC Hockey Tournament Championship (1979) |
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| Awards | |
| 1969 Spencer Penrose Award 1974 Spencer Penrose Award 1979 Spencer Penrose Award 1997 US Hockey Hall of Fame 2002 New Hampshire Hockey Hall of Fame 2006 Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame 2010 Hobey Baker Legend of College Hockey Award |
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ice hockey | ||
Representing  United States
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| World Championships | ||
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1949 Stockholm | |
Charlie Holt (July 17, 1922 – March 17, 2000) was an American ice hockey coach. He was the head coach of the University of New Hampshire from 1968 thru 1986. He is one of three 3-time recipients of the college ice hockey National Coach-of-the-Year Award (the others being Len Ceglarski and Jack Parker).
Holt began coaching men's ice hockey immediately after graduating from Dartmouth in 1946. He spent one year each at Cranbrook Schools and Melrose High School before joining the US National Team for the 1949 World Ice Hockey Championships helping the Americans to a bronze medal finish, their first medal since the start of World War II. A few years later Charlie found himself behind the bench for Northwood School where he would remain as head coach from 1955-1962 before he got his first collegiate offer.
Holt's college head coaching career began just after he turned 40 in 1962–63 when he took over at Colby College. At the time the Mules were competing in the 28-team ECAC Hockey mega-conference as a Division I program but, two years later when the conference was split, Colby was placed in the Division III league and had competed as such ever since. While Holt wasn't able to lead Colby into the postseason while they were a D-I team, once they dropped down into the lower division he got them to three ECAC playoff appearances in four seasons. After Rube Bjorkman departed New Hampshire to take over the top job at North Dakota the Wildcats announced Holt as their head coach starting with the 1968–69 season.
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