Head Coach

Tony Maci

Bringing nearly a decade of ECAC Hockey coaching experience to Schenectady, Tony Maci was named the next head coach of the Union College women’s hockey team on July 31 and begins his first season with the Garnet Chargers in 2024-25.

Maci comes to Schenectady after spending the last eight years on staff at Clarkson University, serving as the top assistant on Matt Desrosiers’ staff before recently earning a promotion to Associate Head Coach. During his time on the bench, the Golden Knights blossomed into a perennial title contender, winning a pair of Division I national championships in 2017 and 2018, reaching four Frozen Fours and making the NCAA Tournament seven times. As the team’s recruiting coordinator and skills coach, Maci recruited and developed two Patty Kazmaier Award winners, nine AHCA All-Americans and 38 All-ECAC Hockey honorees during his time in Potsdam.

Maci started his Division I coaching career as an assistant coach at fellow ECAC school Princeton University, where he helped guide the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament in 2015-16 with a 22-9-2 record, the most wins in program history at the time. He got his start in the college coaching ranks three years earlier as an assistant coach at Division III Adrian College, pushing the young program to a combined 59-15-6 record over three years and its first NCHA regular-season title in 2014-15.

A native of Grosse Ile, Mich., Maci graduated from St. Lawrence University in 2005 with a degree in English and was a five-year member of the Saints men’s hockey team.