After 12 seasons as head coach at Brown, Roger Grillo is leaving the school for a newly created post with USA Hockey.

The Apple Valley, Minn., native will become a regional manager for the national organizing body’s American Development Model. According to USA Hockey, the ADR is a program that provides local associations with a blueprint for developing players’ skills as they advance.

Grillo had a career record of 120-205-52 at Brown. He twice guided the Bears to 16-win seasons, the fourth-best single season win total in school history. In four seasons between 2001-05, his teams won a total of 61 games — only two coaches in Brown’s annals had more successful four-year runs.

The Bears had fallen on hard times in recent seasons, posting just five wins in 2005-06, six in 2007-08, and five last season. Two of Brown’s victories in 2008-09 came in the ECAC Hockey playoffs as the 12th-seeded Bears stunned 5th-seed Harvard before losing a quarterfinal series to Yale.