BRENDAN WHITTET

Brown

Head Coach | Brown ’94 | East Providence, R.I.

Background: Whittet is a Rhode Island native who played at high school powerhouse Mount St. Charles before a post-grad year at Kent School en route to being a four-year letter winner for Brown. He appeared in 74 games on defense and was a part of an Ivy League championship team in 1992, two Lake Placid trips for the ECAC Hockey championship weekend and an NCAA tournament berth in 1993. He was an assistant at Brown for coach Bob Gaudet, and followed Gaudet to Dartmouth, where Whittet spent the last 11 years as an assistant coach. He is the third Brown alum to serve as head coach of the men’s ice hockey program.

Program Status: Brown finished in third place in ECAC Hockey in 2004 behind First Team All-American goalie Yann Danis, but not much has gone right since then. The Bears finished the next year with a winning record, but have finished in the bottom three of the ECAC Hockey standings for the last four years. There was a bright spot to close the 2008-09 season, as Brown upset Harvard in the first round of the ECACH playoffs behind two stellar performances from freshman goalie Mike Clemente. He’ll be back to lead the Bears in Whittet’s first year in charge of his alma mater.

Coaching Philosophy: “I want to get back to what leads to success. I want a team that is based on competitiveness, that wants to fight and play with aggressiveness,” Whittet said. “We want to recruit competitive kids and when you do that you can have success. We want to be known as one of the hardest working teams in the country and when teams play against us they know that they have been in a battle.”