TROY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men’s hockey team has added volunteer assistant coach Nate Skidmore to its staff, it has been announced. Skidmore joins the staff of third-year head coach Dave Smith, along with full-time assistant coaches Scott Moser and Chuck Weber for the upcoming season.
A 2019 graduate of SUNY Potsdam, Skidmore was a goaltender and four-year member of the Bears hockey program, finishing his career with 47 games, including 42 starts. He compiled a 14-23-5 overall record, with a 3.35 goals against average and an .893 save percentage. Earning the team’s Most Valuable Player Award as a senior, he went 7-14-1 with a 3.40 goals against average and an .899 save percentage in 22 games.
Skidmore was a four-year American Hockey Coaches Association Academic All-America honoree as well as a Maxcy Molnar Award winner in 2019. He garnered Outstanding Instructional Design from Potsdam’s School of Education and Professional Studies in his senior year, as well as Outstanding Exercise Science Student of the Year in 2018.
The Director of Goaltending and head coach at the CanAm Group over the last two summers, Skidmore has spent seven years as a strength and conditioning coach and head instructor at the Palmer Goalie Systems Elite Goalie Campus in Syracuse. He also has experience as a coach and evaluator with USA Hockey and strength and conditioning coaching work during his four years at Potsdam, while also interning at Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning in Boston during the Summer of 2017.
A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Skidmore earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Potsdam in Pre-Professional Exercise Science with a minor in Business Administration in 2018, before continuing to receive a Master’s Degree in Management and Leadership in 2019.
