Rick Yeo
{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player and coach}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Rick Yeo
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| birth_date = 1944
| birth_place = Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
| death_date =
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| alma_mater = Michigan Tech
| player_years1 = 1963–1966
| player_team1 = Michigan Tech
| player_years2 = 1970–1971
| player_team2 = Thunder Bay Twins
| player_positions = Forward
| coach_years1 = 1973–1976
| coach_team1 = Michigan Tech (assistant)
| coach_years2 = 1976–1981
| coach_team2 = Lake Superior State
| coach_years3 = 1990–2005
| coach_team3 = Michigan Tech (AD)
| overall_record = 70-96-5 ({{winpct|70|96|5}})
| tournament_record =
| championships = 1965 National Champion (player)
1975 National Champion (assistant)
| awards = 1988 Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame
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J. Richard 'Rick' Yeo was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who was also a member of Michigan Tech's administration for over 20 years.{{cite news|title=Yeo Accepts Senior Development Post|url=http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/news/media_relations/373/|publisher=Michigan Tech|date=2005-03-30|accessdate=2016-07-14}}
Career
Rick Yeo's first appearance in Houghton came as a player for Michigan Tech under John MacInnes. Recruited just after the Huskies first national title in 1962, Yeo was part of Michigan Tech's second championship in 1965, notching 2 assists in the final game against Boston College.{{cite news|title=Michigan Tech 2009-10 Hockey Yearbook|url=https://issuu.com/michigantech/docs/hockey-0910/70|publisher=Michigan Tech Huskies|accessdate=2016-06-15}} After captaining the team in his senior season Yeo returned home to Thunder Bay and worked as a teacher and coach in the area. He made one final appearance on the ice for the Thunder Bay Twins in the team's inaugural season before ending his playing days for good.
In 1973 Yeo returned to his alma mater, becoming an assistant for the team and helping the Huskies to their third championship in 1975. Yeo was eventually hired as the head coach for Lake Superior State and served in that capacity from 1976 through the end of the 1980–81 season. Yeo was less successful that the two bench bosses that preceded him (Ron Mason and Rick Comley) but did achieve a modest amount of success with the Lakers in his five seasons.{{cite news|title=Lake Superior Men's Hockey Team History|url=http://www.uscho.com/stats/history/lake-superior/mens-hockey/|publisher=USCHO.com|accessdate=2014-07-06}}
Yeo was back in Houghton for the third time in the fall of 1981 becoming Director of Annual/Special Gifts for the Michigan Tech Fund, a position he held for eight years. A year after being inducted into the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1988{{cite news|title=J. Richard Yeo|url=http://www.michigantechhuskies.com/athletics/halloffame/Rick_Yeo|publisher=Michigan Tech Huskies|accessdate=2016-07-14}} Yeo became director of alumni relations and then the school's Athletic Director in 1990. Yeo continued on as AD until 2005 when he accepted a new position as senior director of athletic development to help improve the financial foundation of the university's athletic department.
Head coaching record
{{CBB Yearly Record Start
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{{CIH yearly record subhead
|name = Lake Superior State Lakers men's ice hockey
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|startyear = 1976
|conflong = Central Collegiate Hockey Association
|conference = CCHA
|endyear = 1981
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1976–77
| name = Lake Superior State
| overall = 10-23-0
| conference = 3-13-0
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1977–78
| name = Lake Superior State
| overall = 18-13-1
| conference = 7-10-1
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1978–79
| name = Lake Superior State
| overall = 16-18-2
| conference = 11-12-1
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = CCHA Semifinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1979–80
| name = Lake Superior State
| overall = 12-21-1
| conference = 2-18-0
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1980–81
| name = Lake Superior State
| overall = 14-21-1
| conference = 6-15-1
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Lake Superior State
| overall = 70-96-5
| confrecord = 29-68-3
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{{CBB Yearly Record End
|overall = 70-96-5
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References
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External links
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{{Lake Superior State Lakers men's ice hockey navbox}}
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Category:Canadian ice hockey coaches
Category:Lake Superior State Lakers men's ice hockey coaches
Category:Michigan Tech Huskies athletic directors
Category:Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey players
Category:Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Category:Ice hockey people from Thunder Bay
Category:Canadian ice hockey forwards