{"id":84800,"date":"2018-03-01T23:53:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=84800"},"modified":"2018-03-01T23:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:53:53","slug":"lake-superior-state-hands-whitten-four-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2018\/03\/01\/lake-superior-state-hands-whitten-four-year-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Superior State hands Whitten four-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-84803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/whitten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/whitten.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/whitten-104x150.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/>Lake Superior State announced Thursday the signing of head coach Damon Whitten to a four-year contract extension, which will run through the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p>Whitten was named the 10th head coach in program history in April 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;University presidents look for qualities of character more than records when assessing coaches,&#8221; said Lake Superior State president Dr. Peter T. Mitchell in a statement. &#8220;Damon Whitten is a person of great personal integrity and genuine compassion for his players. He emphasizes sportsmanship, hard work, and a commitment to excel on the ice and in the classroom. His team&#8217;s GPA is consistently above 3.0 and the current players are great ambassadors in the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winning traditions in collegiate and professional sports have one thing in common, they trust and support a coach of integrity and they eventually become winners. I trust Damon and his assistant coaches; I believe in them and in the players. I have been particularly proud of the way they all have responded to adversity and finished the season with sweeps at Bemidji and Anchorage. With this new contract, I look forward to Coach Whitten building a hockey program at Lake State known for integrity, grit, and class, on and off the ice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his four years at the helm of the program, Whitten has compiled a record of 43-90-18, including a 10-22-4 mark in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of our staff and our families I would like to thank Dr. Peter Mitchell and Dr. David Paitson for their support and the opportunity to continue to lead the storied hockey program at LSSU,&#8221; added Whitten. &#8220;We are privileged to be at a university and in a community where we are able to build quality relationships. We look forward to continuing that work with our student-athletes, within the campus community and across the twin Soo communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Legion co-advisor Marc Boucher&#8217;s favorite saying is &#8216;Laker pride community wide.&#8217; We were working on bringing excitement and passion certainly into Taffy Abel Arena, but more importantly, across campus and through the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Superior State announced Thursday the signing of head coach Damon Whitten to a four-year contract extension, which will run through the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":84803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[901],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lake Superior State hands Whitten four-year contract extension - 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