Former Yale player Jeff Dwyer has been named director of education and recruitment at College Hockey Inc.
Dwyer, who played for the Bulldogs from 2000 to 2004, will develop an education and marketing campaign aimed at prospective student-athletes and their families.
College Hockey Inc. was formed last year by the commissioners of the six Division I men’s leagues to raise college hockey’s profile.
Dwyer, 29, played in the Atlanta Thrashers’ system after his time at Yale, skating for the AHL’s Chicago Wolves and the ECHL’s Gwinnett Gladiators. He also played with the AHL’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers and in Cortina, Italy.
He was an assistant coach with the ECHL’s Utah Grizzlies and an assistant coach and head of scouting for the USHL’s Cedar Rapids Roughriders.