George Roll

George Roll
Current position
Sport(s)	Ice hockey
Title	Head coach
Team	Nazareth College
Biographical details
Born	10-9-1962 Blue Island, Illinois
Playing career
1981–1985	Bowling Green
Position(s)	Wing
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988–1996	Clarkson (assistant)
1997-2003	Oswego State
2003-2011	Clarkson
2012-Present	Nazareth College
Head coaching record
Overall	250–239–50
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
SUNYAC Regular Season Championship (2003) SUNYAC Tournament Championship (2003) ECAC Regular Season Championship (2008) ECAC Tournament Championship (2007)

George Roll is an American ice hockey coach. He was the head coach of the Clarkson Golden Knights from 2003 thru the end of the 2010-11 season, leading them to their most recent conference championship and NCAA tournament appearance.^[1] Roll began his coaching career shortly after finishing his college career at Bowling Green where he was part of the 1984 National Championship team, becoming a graduate assistant for his alma mater before joining first-year coach Mark Morris's staff at Clarkson.^[2] Roll remained as an assistant for eight years, helping Morris establish Clarkson as a power in ECAC Hockey, winning two regular season titles, two tournament titles, and making the NCAA tournament six times, including a Frozen Four appearance for the first time in over 20 years.

Roll left Clarkson to become the head coach of Oswego State, a Division III program, and in each of his seven years there the Great Lakers finished with a winning record.^[3] Unfortunately, other than a tournament appearance in his second season, Oswego State didn't have much else to show for his tenure until 2002-03 when Roll pushed the Great Lakers to a 25-7-1 record, earning a regular season title, a conference championship, and were runners-up to the D-III National Title.^[4] Roll, however, decided against building on his earlier success after he was offered the top job at Clarkson, replacing his mentor Mark Morris after he was fired due to an incident in early November.^[5]

The first few years with the Golden Knights were rocky as Clarkson couldn't manage a winning record until the third year, but Clarkson won 25 games in 2006–07, including a conference championship and when they earned a regular season crown the following season it appeared that they had turned the corner. After that brief success, however, Clarkson declined rapidly, ending with losing records in each of the next three seasons and causing Roll termination at the end of the 2010–11 season.^[6] Roll quickly found a new job as he was announced as the first head coach for Nazareth College's new Division-III ice hockey program that was to begin in 2012-13.^[7] As of 2014 he is still in that position.

Coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Oswego State (SUNYAC) (1996-97–2002-03)
1996-97	Oswego State	13-12-2	9-6-1
1997-98	Oswego State	17-13-2	12-5-1		NCAA Tournament
1998-99	Oswego State	15-13-3	12-5-3
1999-00	Oswego State	15-11-3	6-6-2
2000-01	Oswego State	17-9-1	10-4-0
2001-02	Oswego State	17-9-4	10-3-1
2002-03	Oswego State	23-6-1	10-3-1	1st	NCAA Runner-up
Oswego State:		117-73-16	69-32-9
Clarkson (ECAC Hockey) (2003-04–2010-11)
2003-04	Clarkson	18-18-5	8-12-2	9th	ECAC Runner-Up
2004-05	Clarkson	13-23-3	7-13-2	9th	ECAC Quarterfinals
2005-06	Clarkson	18-17-3	9-11-2	8th	ECAC Quarterfinals
2006-07	Clarkson	25-9-5	13-4-4	2nd	NCAA East Regional Semifinals
2007-08	Clarkson	22-13-4	15-4-3	1st	NCAA East Regional Finals
2008-09	Clarkson	10-19-7	8-10-4	t-8th	ECAC First Round
2009-10	Clarkson	9-24-4	4-15-3	12th	ECAC First Round
2010-11	Clarkson	15-19-2	9-12-1	t-7th	ECAC First Round
Clarkson:		130-142-33	73-81-21
Nazareth (ECAC West) (2012-13–present)
2012-13	Nazareth College	6-19-1	1-14-0	6th
2013-14	Nazareth College	8-16-2	4-9-2	6th
Nazareth College:		14-35-3	5-23-2
Total:		250-239-50
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

↑ "Clarkson Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
↑ "George Roll". eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
↑ "Oswego Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
↑ "Postcard: Meet George Roll". Inside College Hockey. 2003-03-24. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
↑ "Morris fired as Clarkson head coach". Inside College Hockey. 2002-11-15. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
↑ "Clarkson coach Roll relieved of duties". USCHO.com. 2011-04-18. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
↑ "Nazareth names George Roll". Nazareth Athletics. 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2014-04-30.

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Clarkson Golden Knights men's ice hockey

Playing venues	Walker Arena (1938–1991) Cheel Arena (1991–Present)

Head coaches	Gordon Croskery (1920–1929) Jack Roos (1929–1948) William Harrison (1948–1958) Len Ceglarski (1958–1972) Jerry York (1972–1979) Bill O'Flaherty (1979–1985) Cap Raeder (1985–1988) Mark Morris (1988–2002) Fred Parker (2002–2003) George Roll (2003–2011) Casey Jones (2011–Present)

Conference affiliations	Tri-State League 1950–1972 ECAC Hockey (1961–Present)

Rivalries	St. Lawrence RPI

All-time leaders	Dave Taylor (251 Points) Kevin Zappia (103 Goals)

Frozen Four appearances	1957 1958 1962 1963 1966 1970 1991

NCAA Tournament appearances	1957 1958 1962 1963 1966 1970 1981 1982 1984 1990 1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2007 2008

Conference Tournament champions	1966 1991 1993 1999 2007

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