Head Coach Brad Frost
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Along with his on-ice accomplishments, Frost coached Gigi Marvin to second-team All-America honors and helped her receive recognition as a top-10 Patty Kazmaier finalist, a Gopher first since the 2004-05 NCAA championship run. On the conference level, Marvin and defenseman Rachael Drazan were named first-team All-WCHA, while the Gophers had two additional honorees on both the second and third team. Frost himself garnered post-season honors when he was named the WCHA Coach of the Year and a finalist for the National Coach of the Year. On April 16, 2008, Frost's interim title was lifted and he is set to embark on his second season at the helm of the program.
Although he enters only his second season as head coach, Frost has been a member of the Gopher coaching staff since December of 2000 when he started his career as an interim assistant coach. He was later named assistant coach in 2001, a role he held until the end of the 2006 season. From 2001 to 2004, Frost primarily coached the power-play and the forwards, including U.S. Olympians Natalie Darwitz, Kelly Stephens and Krissy Wendell.
In the 2004-05 campaign, Frost switched from coaching the forwards to the defensemen position 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 conversion percentage 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 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 to his coaching responsibilities, Frost founded the Minnesota Girls Hockey Camp in the summer of 2007.
Frost has also gained international coaching experience. Since becoming the Gophers' head coach, Frost has been selected as a U.S. National Team assistant coach for the 2008-09 season when Team USA competes in the Four Nation's Cup and the IIHF World Championships in April. In 2006, Frost was chosen to serve as an assistant coach on the U.S. Under-22 Team, which highlighted five Gopher student-athletes. Prior to his coaching duties with the Under-22 Team, Frost was an assistant coach at the 2003 USA Hockey 14/15 girl's development camp in Rochester, N.Y.
Before his tenure at Minnesota, Frost spent a year at his alma mater, Bethel University, as the assistant coach for the men's team. Before his stint at Bethel, Frost served as an assistant coach for the girls' hockey team at Eagan High School for three years and also served as co-head coach of the Eagan volleyball team that placed second in the Minnesota State High School 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 to his coaching duties, Frost taught physical education at Northview Elementary in Eagan and at New Life Academy in Woodbury.
Along with his hockey accomplishments, Frost was a two-year letterwinner on the golf team. He went on to graduate with a bachelor of arts degree in physical education from Bethel in 1996. As an athlete, Frost was a four-year letterwinner and ranks eighth on Bethel's career scoring list. He finished his career with 119 points, and was voted the team's most valuable player and most inspirational in the 1994 and 1995 seasons. Frost was captain of the Royals in both his junior and senior seasons.
Frost, his wife Dayna, and sons, Micah, Jonah and Josiah, reside in Cottage Grove, Minn.
