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George Gwozdecky led Denver from 1994 to 2013 (Denver (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Denver has announced its inductees for the 2020 DU Athletic Hall of Fame class.<\/p>\n

The 12 inductees will be honored on the DU campus May 16 during the university’s alumni weekend.<\/p>\n

Among the honorees is former Pioneers coach George Gwozdecky.<\/p>\n

Gwozdecky guided the Pioneers to back-to-back national championships in 2004 and 2005, two of his 16 20-win seasons in his Denver career en-route to an overall record of 443-267-64 from 1994 to 2013.<\/p>\n

His time as the Denver bench boss began in 1994 with a 25-15-2 mark, his first of a program-record 19 seasons as the head coach. Gwozdecky eclipsed 30 wins in a season twice, including 32 in his 2005 championship winning season.<\/p>\n

Under Gwozdecky, the Pioneers solidified themselves as a perennial top-10 program, capturing three conference regular-season and four conference playoff titles to go with the two national titles during his tenure.<\/p>\n

The two-time AHCA national coach of the year became the first person in NCAA history to win a national title as a player (with Wisconsin in 1977), assistant coach (Michigan State in 1986) and head coach (DU, 2004 and 2005).<\/p>\n

He left Denver in 2013 to take an assistant coach’s job with the Tampa Bay Lightning and is currently the head coach of Valor Christian High School in Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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