Scott Owens (ice hockey)
| Sport(s) | Ice hockey |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | head coach / gm |
| Team | Sioux Falls Stampede |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 7, 1956 Madison, WI, USA |
| Playing career | |
| 1975–1979 | Colorado College |
| 1979–1984 | TSV Kottern |
| Position(s) | Goaltender |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1979–1984 | TSV Kottern (assistant) |
| 1984–1990 | Wisconsin Capitols |
| 1990–1991 | Wisconsin (assistant) |
| 1991–1995 | Colorado College (assistant) |
| 1995–1999 | Des Moines Buccaneers |
| 1999–2014 | Colorado College |
| 2015–Present | Sioux Falls Stampede |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 324–228–54 (.579) (College) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2003 WCHA Regular Season Champion 2005 WCHA Regular Season Champion 2008 WCHA Regular Season Champion |
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Scott Owens (born March 7, 1956) is an American ice hockey player and coach. Owens was a long-time head coach of Colorado College, and is now the head coach of the Sioux Falls Stampede.
Scott Owens made his first appearance for the Colorado College Tigers during the 1975–76 season during one of their better (though still nominally bad) periods. While none of his four years saw CC finish with a winning record, they did earn their only conference title in school history in 1978. Once he had graduated Owens became a player-assistant coach with TSV Kottern, which played in varying levels of West Germany's amateur leagues, for five years before returning to North America.
Owens' next job came in his home town of Madison as General manager for the newly formed Madison Capitols. After two seasons in that position, Owens added the responsibilities as head coach to his duties with the Capitols, and under his leadership the team routinely finished in the top half of league standings. Owens left after the 1989–90 season to accept a position at Wisconsin as an assistant under his old head coach Jeff Sauer and moved back to his alma mater in the same capacity the following season. After four more seasons with the Tigers Owens headed back to the USHL as head coach of the Des Moines Buccaneers.
Despite a rocky start that saw his first losing record as a head coach, Owen's tenure in Des Moines was even more successful than his time with the Capitols. In his third year the Buccaneers won the Anderson Cup as the best regular season team and followed it up with a repeat performance in addition to a Clark Cup for winning the league title. Now a proven champion, Owens matriculated back to Colorado Springs to take over as head coach. With the departed Don Lucia having revived the moribund program Owens stepped in and had immediate success, making the NCAA three straight seasons early on. The fourth year culminated with Peter Sejna, a player Owens had coached in and recruited from Des Moines, winning the Hobey Baker Award, the first in school history.
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