Atlantic City Sharks Coach Bios

Atlantic City Sharks
Coach Bios
Midget Minor AA
Jared Siganuk
Jared began his career playing
for the Medford Jaguars Pee Wee “A”
hockey club of the NJYHL. Locally he
would advance to the AA level with
the Gladiator Legion and AAA level
with the Valley Forge Minutemen and
Philadelphia Jr. Flyers. With the Jr.
Flyers Jared would aide the team in
successfully winning silver sticks,
districts, and taking second place at
nationals. He was also selected to the 2001 Atlantic District Team to
represent the Atlantic District in the select festival held in Rochester,
NY. After completing his youth hockey years in 2004, Jared was drafted
to the Central States Hockey League by the Toledo Cherokee and would
go to the USA Hockey Jr. B Nationals with that team. From 2005-2008
Jared would go abroad to play Canadian Jr. “A” hockey splitting time
with the Nepean Raiders (CJHL), Pembroke Lumber Kings (CJHL), Blind
River Beavers (NOJHL) and Finally the Hawkesbury Hawks (CJHL). After
aging out his junior hockey eligibility in 2008, Jared was sent to Prescott
Valley, AZ to participate in camp with the Central Hockey League’s
Arizona Sundogs. After making it through camp and participating in the
full preseason Jared was released in Arizona and sent to Knoxville
Tennessee to play on the Southern Professional Hockey League’s
Knoxville Ice Bears. During the 2008-09 season Jared was traded to the
Twin City Cyclones, also of the SPHL, and would finish the season with
them in Winston-Salem North Carolina. After the Twin City Cyclones
had announced that the team would be ceasing operations in the
summer of 2009 Jared was looking for an avenue to keep hockey going
in his life. That summer he was hired by the Flyers Skate Zone of
Atlantic City as their Director of Hockey Operations. Since 2009 Jared
has been running the hockey programs in Atlantic City and actively
coaching within the youth programs of the rink. Now a level 4 coach,
Jared looks to advance hockey in Atlantic City into the more elite levels
and continue his progress making better hockey players and helping
them advance in there careers.
Midget Minor A
Dennis McGrath
Dennis played 2 years of bantam hockey for the AC Storm before
playing 3 years on Varsity team for the AC Vikings. The Vikings
beat Malvern Prep, a nationally ranked team, while Dennis was a Junior
playing for the team. Dennis led the team in assists both junior and
senior years and won the most consistent award his senior year. After
high school he played a year of college hockey for Gloucester County
College. He led that team in assists. They finished up the season losing to
Penn State Berks in the semi finals. From there, he went and played
junior B and Junior C for the South Jersey Raptors. He was a Co-Captain
for 3 years. They played teams from Conn. all the way south to Florida
making it to the semi finals in his second year. He was involved in
coaching the Junior C team before leaving. After juniors he was accepted
to play semi pro on an all American team in Finland. He has coached the
Mainland Ice Hockey varsity team for five years: 4 as an assistant and 1
as a head coach. They made it to the finals 3 times in his first 4 years
winning twice and placing second once. Last year as the head coach they
made it to the finals again and placed second.
Bantam A
Joe Seddon
Joe Seddon began coaching roller
hockey in 2006 for Middle Township High
School level teams. In 2007 he coached the
Middle township Middle school roller
hockey team and won the Cape May County
league championship. In 2009 he helped
establish the Middle Township Hockey
Association and held the office of VicePresident. He continued to coach roller
hockey until 2010. He resigned his
position with the association after one year
to become the assistant coach of the South
Jersey Bruins Squirt B team for the 20102011 season. He obtained his Level 1 certification with USA Hockey in
2010. He was the assistant coach for the South Jersey Bruins PeeWee B
team for the 2011-2012 season and received his Level 2 coaching
certification from USA Hockey in 2011. For the 2012-2013 season he
became the assistant coach for the Atlantic City Sharks Bantam A team
and received his Level 3 certification from USA Hockey. For the 20132014 season he will be the head coach for the Atlantic City Sharks
Bantam A team and be a Level 4 USA Hockey coach.
In 2012 he also established the Cape May County Ice Hockey
Association. This association was founded to promote the sport of ice
hockey in Cape May County through middle and high school teams.
During the 2012-2013 season he founded only the second high school
ice hockey team in Cape May County: the Middle Township Panthers.
Also during this season he helped start the Atlantic City Middle School
League and entered two middle school teams in to the league. One of
the teams won the inaugural championship. During this season the
association is proud to have introduced the game of ice hockey to more
than 50 youth players.
Pee Wee A
Vinny Reale
2013 – 2014
AC Sharks Coach
Name: Vinny P Reale
PeeWee A/AA head
coach or
Phone / E-mail: 609-335-7010 /
[email protected]
Past Experience: Coaching
8 yrs. High School Varsity head coach
1 yr midget 16u A
4 yr squirt A
2 yr peewee A
1 yr peewee AA
2 yrs Bantam AAA
2 yrs of learn to play for the Flyers Skate Zone
Coaching Achievements:
Co founder of the AC Storm (now AC Sharks)
2 players in ECHL camps, 20+ players in JR’s and College programs,
many tournament championships at High school and youth levels A and
AA
Playing:
7yrs Brick youth
1 yr St. Mary’s in the MIAC (college) in Minn
23 yrs at A or elite mens league
Current CEP Level: Advanced 17 yrs
Philosophy: To emphasize team play while developing strong skills
physically and mentally.
Squirt A
Stefan Rivard
The Life of Hockey and career of Stefan Y
Rivard (“Rivy”) as he is known to so many.
Stefan was born in New Liskeard Ontario,
Canada. His passion for Hockey started as a
little boy and playing at the rink down the
street from his house. He could be found there
every night playing the game he loves. His
dedication and hard work would eventually
take him on a journey for years playing around
the World and away from home.
He played for the New Liskeard Minor
Hockey. He played 1 year Midget B & Midget
AAA for the Cubs as a forward. When he was in High School he decided
to move an hour and half away with family to fulfill one of his dreams
and play in the OHL in the Canadian Hockey League. He was invited to
camp and made the roster for the North Bay Centennials which had
been a very exciting time for him. He played there from 1991-1995. He
won the Championship in North Bay 1993. He also played in the
Memorial Cup for North Bay Centennials. This was also a challenging
time for him as he moved away from his parents and sisters. He then
made his journey and began playing his first year in his professional
career with the Columbus Chill (ECHL) in 1995-1996 season. This was
something he always desired and set out to achieve since he started
playing hockey. As his passion for the game continued he decided to go
overseas and play over in Germany 1996-1997 for the Berlin
Schlittschut Club (Germany 2). This was interesting time for Stefan to
experience playing on the other side of the world for a Premiere Hockey
Club.
Then came a big part of his professional career when he started
playing for the Birmingham Bulls (ECHL) 1997-2001 in which he wore
the “A”. He also got called up & played some games from 1999-2002
seasons for (4 AHL teams) Providence Bruins being the first call up he
received. In addition to the Bruins call up he also played for the
Hartford Wolf Pack, Lowell Lock Monsters, & Portland Pirates in the
AHL.
In 2001 the Birmingham Bulls moved their team to Atlantic City
where Stefan would end up finishing his last few years in his Pro career
playing for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies and proudly wearing the
“C” for the team. His dream of a winning a championship before he
would decide to retire the following season came true when he won the
Kelly Cup Championship in 2003 with Bullies which would be the
biggest moment of his career. He also set some records for himself while
playing for the Bullies. In 2003 he achieved scoring his 400th Career
point. A week later he played his 500th career game vs Reading.
However, his biggest achievement on the ice came when they raised &
retired his #21 as a Boardwalk Bullie in a ceremony at Boardwalk Hall.
His retirement would be the end to a well achieved Pro career but his
love for the game will never end. Stefan was fortunate enough to have
many great coaches during his career. In addition he played with many
great players and some of them have played in the NHL.
Interesting facts about Stefan Rivard’s pro career:
• He attended the Hershey Bears Camp (AHL) in 1995
• He attended the Cincinatti Cyclones Camp (IHL) in 1997.
• His call up with the Providence Bruins was with the current
Philadelphia Flyers Coach-Peter Laviolette
• He played 8 out of 9 years of his Pro career for the ECHL.
• He was a Players Rep for the Players Union for numerous years.
• In 2000-2001 he was on the playoff roster for Lowell Lock
Monsters and the Coach was Bruce Boudreau (currently Coach of
Anaheim Ducks).
His passion for hockey did not stop when he retired. As he was a role
model for so many during his career he then continued to be a role
model for youth hockey shortly after he retired. He wanted to be able to
help so many kids with the same dreams and goals he had. So, he started
coaching for the Haviland Family and the Jr. Titans Program. He then
came where he is now to the Flyers Skate Zone in Atlantic City. It was
with pride and joy he would begin coaching his son Brent a few years
ago and now is the Coach for the Atlantic City Sharks Squirt Team. He
now resides in Northfield with his wife Shannon, daughter Celena, and
son Brent. His passion for the game will continue with coaching youth
hockey and teaching so many kids the greatest sport ever.