{"id":44627,"date":"2014-06-02T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=44627"},"modified":"2022-06-07T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:43:16","slug":"yoder-06-2a-hockey-coach-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2014\/06\/02\/yoder-06-2a-hockey-coach-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoder &#8217;06 Is 2A Hockey Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/05\/Yoder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/05\/Yoder-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yoder\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>When Kasey Yoder \u201906 took an interest in hockey at a young age, nobody was very surprised\u2014certainly not his step-father, who has been a high-school hockey coach for nearly 20 years. And certainly not his neighbors in Duluth (Minn.), located in the heart of \u201chockey country\u201d\u2014where high-school hockey is as good as it gets. He played hockey in high school and early in college, then transferred to Augsburg, where he explored and found the marketing program he wanted. While at Augsburg, he also started coaching youth hockey, and that\u2019s when it started\u2014his passion for coaching.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most exciting challenges in coaching high school hockey, says Yoder, is keeping the kids focused and \u201cbuying in,\u201d especially with everything else they have going on in their lives. He works to help them find balance, while still being committed to success at the arena. He is getting to know the families in the Orono (Minn.) community while developing relationships to further improve Orono hockey.<\/p>\n<p>Taking his Orono High School team to the state hockey tournaments a few weeks ago was surely a highlight in his career, especially given the fact that 2013-14 is his first year at the school. The frosting on the cake\u2014being selected Section 2A Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>When he isn\u2019t coaching, Yoder is tending to his\u00a02<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Life Sticks\u00a0hockey stick repair company in St. Paul. His experience as a coach, not to mention the rising cost of hockey sticks (now $250 per stick), convinced him that the repair technology he learned while a junior hockey coach on a tight budget was something that needed to be done on a larger scale. His entrepreneurial spirit kicked in, and the company has been operating for a year and a half. Yoder also runs Orono\u2019s 18-day summer hockey camp for kids aged 12-18, careful to follow his own advice to students and carve out some valuable cabin time as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Kasey Yoder \u201906 took an interest in hockey at a young age, nobody was very surprised\u2014certainly not his step-father, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51411,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44627\/revisions\/51411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}