MINNEAPOLIS -- Greg May, a 2007 Augsburg University alumnus, has been named as the new head coach for the Auggies' men's hockey program, the university announced on Tuesday. May replaces Chris Brown, who resigned in August after a 15-season tenure at Augsburg to take an associate head coach position at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
 
A four-year player for the Auggie men's hockey team (2003-07), May returns to Augsburg after a successful career as a coach and administrator at both the high school and collegiate levels. Most recently, he had served as the Director of Athletics and Activities at St. Thomas Academy, a private high school in Mendota Heights, Minn.
 
"I am incredibly honored and grateful for the opportunity to be the next head coach at Augsburg University," May said. "The school and its hockey program have a lot of meaning to me as an alum. I went there, my wife went there, my brother went there, his wife went there, and a lot of my best friends to this day are guys I played with over those four years. To be the head coach at your alma mater is not something everybody gets to do. I want to thank Athletic Director Jeff Swenson for this unbelievable opportunity, and I cannot wait to get back on campus and begin to work with our current players and coaches."
 
As a player at Augsburg, May earned All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Honorable Mention honors as a forward in his senior year, 2006-07. He played in 100 games in his collegiate career, scoring 22 goals with 24 assists for 46 points. He set career-highs in his senior year with 11 goals and nine assists for 20 points, as part of an Auggie squad that went 12-10-4 and reached the MIAC postseason playoffs.

 

"We're excited to have Greg May coming home to Augsburg to lead our men's hockey program," Swenson said. "Greg has been part of the great tradition of Augsburg men's hockey as a player, and we're excited to have him move us into the future, carrying on the success we've had and building on it as our new coach."
 
In his most recent position at St. Thomas Academy, May was in charge of 15 varsity sports and more than 50 activities at the all-male school, where 93 percent of its student body participated in at least one sport or activity. He was in a supervisory role for more than 120 coaches and moderators in athletics and activities.

Prior to going to STA, May had worked for two seasons as director of operations for the men's hockey program at the University of Minnesota, managing much of the Golden Gophers' behind-the-scenes operations, including budgets, travel, compliance, recruiting visits, video, scouting, and conference and NCAA contacts, in addition to participating on the Minnesota coaching staff.
 
From 2016-19, he served as the boys' hockey coach and associate athletic director at the Blake School in Hopkins, Minn., where he led the Bears to back-to-back Independent Metro Athletic Conference titles (2017-18, 2018-19). He had a 46-31-3 record during his Blake years.
 
From 2014-16, he coached boys' hockey at Farmington (Minn.) High School, compiling a 38-18-2 record and leading the Tigers to their first-ever Class AA Minnesota State Hockey Tournament appearance (2015-16). He was named Section 1AA Coach of the Year in the Tigers' section title season of 2015-16. His Tigers were section runners-up in 2014-15. May worked as a health and physical education teacher in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District from 2008-16.
 
May has served as a lead evaluator for the USA Hockey/Minnesota High Performance program since 2017, and was treasurer of the Minnesota Hockey Coaches Association from 2018-20. He owns his own hockey skill development business, May and Co., and also served as a scout for the USHL's Chicago Steel from 2014-17.
 
A native of Burnsville, Minn., May earned his bachelor's degree in health education and physical education from Augsburg in 2007, and later earned his master's degree in educational leadership from Concordia University-St. Paul.