Head Coach Brad Frost
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As head coach, Frost will work with the offensive systems and forwards, as well as the Gophers' first power-play unit. Off the ice, Frost will oversee the program, and handle practice and game planning.
Frost started at Minnesota as an interim assistant coach in December of 2000 and was later named an assistant coach in 2001, a role he held until the end of the 2006 season. From 2001 to 2004, Frost primarily coached the forwards and the power-play for three and a half years, including U.S. Olympians Natalie Darwitz, Kelly Stephens and Krissy Wendell.
In the 2004-05 campaign, Frost switched to coaching the defensemen and the Gopher special teams in the power-play and penalty-kill units. In 2005, Frost led the power-play unit to an impressive 31.0% in their national championship season. After losing four Olympians in the 2005-06 season, Frost helped the Gophers to a second-place finish in both the WCHA regular and tournament championships with a 19-8-1 record.
Following the 2005-06 runner-up year, Frost was elevated to an associate head coach in May of 2006. As an associate head coach, Frost continued his work with the defensemen, practice planning, video analysis, game planning and working with the Gophers' power-play units. In addition, Frost founded the Minnesota Girls Hockey Camp in the summer of 2007.
Frost also has gained international coaching experience. In 2006, he was chosen to serve as an assistant coach on the U.S. Under-22 Team, which highlighted five Gopher student-athletes. Frost was also an assistant coach at the 2003 USA Hockey 14/15 girl's development camp in Rochester, N.Y.
Before his tenure at UM, Frost spent a year at his alma mater, Bethel University, as the assistant coach for the men's team. Before that, he served as an assistant coach for the girls' hockey team at Eagan HS for three years and also served as co-head coach of the Eagan volleyball team that placed second in the Minnesota State HS League tournament in 2000. He was an assistant volleyball coach at Mounds View in 1999 and served as the head volleyball coach at New Life Academy from 1996-98. In addition, Frost taught physical education at Northview Elementary in Eagan and at New Life Academy in Woodbury.
As an athlete, Frost was a four-year letterwinner and ranks eighth on Bethel's career scoring list with 119 points. He was voted the team's most valuable player in the 1994 and 1995 seasons and was captain in both his junior and senior seasons. Frost was also a two-year letterwinner on the golf team and went on to graduate with a B.A. degree in physical education from Bethel in 1996.
Frost, his wife Dayna, and sons, Micah, Jonah and Josiah, reside in Cottage Grove, Minn.