{"id":24700,"date":"2002-08-12T18:41:21","date_gmt":"2002-08-12T23:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/08\/12\/seney-leaves-potsdam-for-st-anselm\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:28","slug":"seney-leaves-potsdam-for-st-anselm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/08\/12\/seney-leaves-potsdam-for-st-anselm\/","title":{"rendered":"Seney Leaves Potsdam For St. Anselm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ed Seney has been named as the new men’s hockey coach at St. Anselm.<\/p>\n
Seney spent the last 14 years as head coach at Potsdam State in New York. He replaces Ken Kuzyk, who resigned in June. Kuzyk coached the Hawks for 17 years with a 161-243-27 record.<\/p>\n
“I’m just excited about coming back to the region and am also looking forward to working with the kids at a great institution,” said Seney. I’m glad to be a part of a Saint Anselm program that is moving forward with a new arena and looking to build on an already-sound foundation of success.”<\/p>\n
Seney, a native of Lake Placid, graduated from New England College in Henniker, N.H., in 1981. He served as an assistant coach at New England, Norwich and Clarkson before becoming Potsdam’s head coach in 1988.<\/p>\n
Two years ago, Seney directed Potsdam to a 20-8-3 record, and the team was ranked as high as seventh in Division III. He has been named SUNYAC Coach of the Year three times. His career record is 178-210-16.<\/p>\n
St. Anselm is Division II by NCAA standards and is a member of the multi-sport Northeast-10 Conference in all sports except hockey, which plays in the mostly Division III ECAC East. The school does not take part in the conference tournament. Instead, it combines with the handful of other ECAC Division II schools, most of whom are in the ECAC Northeast, for a postseason tournament.<\/p>\n
That ends the season for the schools since there is no NCAA Division II tournament in hockey and NCAA rules prohibit a school from being playing below its official division in any sport.<\/p>\n
The school has been rumored to be considering a move to Division I to follow in the footsteps of other NE-10 rivals such as American International and Bentley, both of whose hockey programs are now in the MAAC. In fact, most of the schools that were classified as Division II have moved their hockey programs to Division I since the elimination of the NCAA Division II tournament.<\/p>\n