Mike Gilligan
{{Short description|American ice hockey coach}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Mike Gilligan
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| birth_date =
| birth_place = Beverly, Massachusetts
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| player_team1 = Salem State
| player_years1 = 1967–1970
1971–1972
1972–1973
| player_positions = Defenseman
| coach_years1 = 1975–1981
| coach_team1 = Salem State
| coach_years2 = 1981–1983
| coach_team2 = Yale (Assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1983–1984
| coach_team3 = Yale
| coach_years4 = 1984–2003
| coach_team4 = Vermont
| coach_years5 = 2003–2006
| coach_team5 = US Women's National Team (Assistant)
| coach_years6 = 2006–2014
| coach_team6 = Vermont (Assistant)
| overall_record = 419-350-49
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships = ECAC Hockey Regular Season Champion (1996)
| awards = 1986 Salem State Athletic Hall of Fame
1988 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year
2005 John MacInnes Award
2008 Parker-York Award
2010 Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame
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{{Medal|Sport | Women's ice hockey}}
{{Medal|Country | the {{flag|USA}} }}
{{Medal|Competition|Women's World Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2005 Sweden |}}
{{Medal|Competition|Olympics}}
{{MedalBronze| 2006 Torino |}}
}}
Mike Gilligan is a retired American ice hockey coach. He was the head coach at Vermont from 1983 through 2003 and later became an assistant with the UVM women's team for seven more seasons before retiring in 2014.{{cite news|title=Send Mike Gilligan Your Best for Keepsake Book as He Retires|url=http://uvmathletics.com/news/2014/6/2/MHOCKEY_0602143547.aspx|publisher=Vermont Catamounts|date=2014-06-02|access-date=2014-07-09}}
Career
=Playing=
Mike Gilligan started as a defenseman for Salem State for three seasons, serving as captain and earning All-American honors in the final two{{cite news|title=Staff Directory: Mike Gilligan|url=http://uvmathletics.com/staff.aspx?staff=54|publisher=Vermont Catamounts|access-date=2014-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728052733/http://uvmathletics.com/staff.aspx?staff=54|archive-date=2014-07-28|url-status=dead}} before moving onto a brief minor league career in the early 1970s.{{cite news|title=Mike Gilligan|url=http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=11717|publisher=Hockey DB|access-date=2014-07-09}}
=Coaching=
Gilligan returned to Salem State in 1975 to serve as head coach for his alma mater. Playing in ECAC Hockey's now defunct Division II league, Salem State became a powerhouse under Gilligan, winning at least 20 games in each of his six seasons behind the bench. Their best finish came in 1979 when they finished fourth in the NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Championship.{{cite news|title=Mike Gilligan Year-By-Year Coaching Record|url=http://www.uscho.com/stats/coach/mid,5/mike-gilligan/|publisher=USCHO.com|access-date=2014-07-09}} After the 1980-81 campaign Gilligan accepted an offer to serve as Tim Taylor's assistant at Yale. Two years later Taylor took a hiatus from the university to serve as an assistant for Team USA at the 1984 Winter Olympics, leaving the Bulldogs in the hands of Gilligan for the 1983–84 season. Gilligan acquitted himself by getting Yale to a 12-13-1 record{{cite news|title=Yale Men's Hockey Team History|url=http://www.uscho.com/stats/history/yale/mens-hockey/|publisher=USCHO.com|access-date=2014-07-04}} and after the conclusion of the season was chosen to replace Jim Cross at Vermont
Gilligan's first season with the Catamounts was a disappointing, finishing with an 8-21-0 record, but by the end of his second season he had gotten them back on track, winning 17 games. over the next 12 seasons Vermont would post winning records 10 times and made their first NCAA tournament berth in 1988.{{cite news|title=Vermont Men's Hockey Team History|url=http://www.uscho.com/stats/history/vermont/mens-hockey/|publisher=USCHO.com|access-date=2014-07-09}} Gillian's best season came in 1995–96 when he won Vermont's only regular season championship with a 27-win season and saw the Catamounts make the Frozen Four for the first time, finishing third in the 1996 tournament behind the strong play of future NHLers Martin St. Louis and Tim Thomas.{{cite news|title=NCAA Tournament|url=http://www.augenblick.org/chha/ncaa_trn.html|publisher=College Hockey Historical Archive|access-date=2014-07-09}}
In the 1999–00 season both Gilligan and Vermont were tarnished as a result of a hazing scandal that caused the university to cancel its season after only seventeen games{{cite news|title=Vermont Cancels season in Player Hazing Scandal|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/15/sports/hockey-vermont-cancels-season-in-player-hazing-scandal.html|work=The New York Times|date=2000-01-15|access-date=2013-05-18}} and while it did not lead to Gilligan's dismissal he would never again field a winning team, resigning from his post after the 2002–03 season, one win shy of the school record.{{cite news|title=Vermont's Gilligan Retires|url=http://www.uscho.com/2003/05/16/vermonts-gilligan-retires/|publisher=USCHO.com|date=2005-05-16|access-date=2014-07-09}}
In addition to coaching hockey at the University of Vermont, Gilligan served as the head coach of the catamount golf team from 1993 through 2009.
=Women's Teams=
After leaving Vermont Gilligan became an assistant for the US Women's National Team for over two years, helping the team to win gold at the 2005 IIHF Women's World Championship and bronze at Torino the following year. Gilligan returned to Vermont in the fall of 2006 as an assistant for the women's team and remained in that position until his retirement in 2014.
=Honors=
Gilligan was inducted into the Salem State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986 and was co-ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year with Bill Cleary two years later.{{cite news|title=ECAC Hockey Awards|url=http://www.augenblick.org/chha/ecac_awd.html|publisher=College Hockey Historical Archive|access-date=2014-07-09}} After retiring as head coach Gilligan was named the 2005 recipient of the John MacInnes Award,{{cite news|title=Gilligan Wins 2005 MacInnes Award|url=http://www.uscho.com/2005/01/26/gilligan-wins-2005-macinnes-award/|publisher=USCHO.com|date=2005-01-26|access-date=2014-07-09}} the 2008 recipient of the Parker-York Award and was inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey hall of Fame in 2010{{cite news|title=Mike Gilligan Inducted Into The Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame|url=http://www.uvmathletics.com/news/2010/11/11/GEN_1111104143.aspx|publisher=Vermont Catamounts|date=2010-11-11|access-date=2014-07-09}}
Head coaching record
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{{CIH yearly record subhead
|name = Salem State Vikings
|color = color:white; background:#1A3B8C; {{box-shadow border|a|#DC6000|2px}}
|startyear = 1975
|conflong = ECAC 2
|conference = ECAC 2
|endyear = 1981
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1975–76
| name = Salem State
| overall = 21–6–0
| conference = 15–5–0
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = ECAC 2 Semifinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1976–77
| name = Salem State
| overall = 22–5–0
| conference =
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason = ECAC 2 Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1977–78
| name = Salem State
| overall = 21–8–0
| conference = 17–7–0
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = ECAC 2 Semifinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = division
| season = 1978–79
| name = Salem State
| overall = 23–11–1
| conference = 18–8–1
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Consolation Game (Loss)
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1979–80
| name = Salem State
| overall = 21–8–0
| conference = 19–6–0
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = ECAC 2 Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1980–81
| name = Salem State
| overall = 20–10–1
| conference = 16–6–1
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason = ECAC 2 Semifinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Salem State
| overall = 128–48–2
| confrecord =
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{{CIH yearly record subhead
|name = Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey
|color = color:white; background:#00356B
|startyear = 1983
|conflong = ECAC Hockey
|conference = ECAC Hockey
|endyear = 1984
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1983-84
| name = Yale
| overall = 12-13-1
| conference = 10-10-1
| confstanding = t-9th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Yale
| overall = 12-13-1
| confrecord = 10-10-1
}}
{{CIH yearly record subhead
|name = Vermont Catamounts men's ice hockey
|color = color:white; background:#005710; {{box-shadow border|a|#FFC20E|2px}}
|startyear = 1984
|conference = ECAC Hockey
|endyear = 2003
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1984-85
| name = Vermont
| overall = 8-21-0
| conference = 4-17-0
| confstanding = 10th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1985-86
| name = Vermont
| overall = 17-13-1
| conference = 11-10-0
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1986-87
| name = Vermont
| overall = 18-14-0
| conference = 9-13-0
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1987-88
| name = Vermont
| overall = 21-11-3
| conference = 14-7-1
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = NCAA East Regional Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1988-89
| name = Vermont
| overall = 20-13-1
| conference = 13-9-0
| confstanding = t-5th
| postseason = ECAC Runner-Up
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1989-90
| name = Vermont
| overall = 9-20-2
| conference = 7-13-2
| confstanding = 9th
| postseason = ECAC First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1990-91
| name = Vermont
| overall = 17-14-2
| conference = 12-8-2
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1991-92
| name = Vermont
| overall = 16-12-3
| conference = 10-9-3
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason = ECAC Preliminary Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1992-93
| name = Vermont
| overall = 12-16-3
| conference = 10-11-1
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason = ECAC Preliminary Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1993-94
| name = Vermont
| overall = 15-12-6
| conference = 10-6-6
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1994-95
| name = Vermont
| overall = 19-14-2
| conference = 11-9-2
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1995-96
| name = Vermont
| overall = 27-7-4
| conference = 17-2-3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Frozen Four
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1996-97
| name = Vermont
| overall = 22-11-3
| conference = 13-6-3
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason = NCAA East Regional Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1997-98
| name = Vermont
| overall = 10-20-4
| conference = 7-11-4
| confstanding = t-9th
| postseason = ECAC First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1998-99
| name = Vermont
| overall = 13-18-2
| conference = 7-13-2
| confstanding = 9th
| postseason = ECAC First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1999-00
| name = Vermont
| overall = 5-9-3
| conference = 3-2-2
| confstanding = 12th*
| postseason = Ineligible
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2000-01
| name = Vermont
| overall = 14-18-2
| conference = 8-12-2
| confstanding = 10th
| postseason = ECAC Four vs. Five
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2001-02
| name = Vermont
| overall = 3-26-2
| conference = 3-18-1
| confstanding = 12th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2002-03
| name = Vermont
| overall = 13-20-3
| conference = 8-14-0
| confstanding = 10th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Vermont
| overall = 279-289-46
| confrecord = 177-190-34
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
|overall = 419-350-49
|confrecord =
}}
See also
References
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External links
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