Rand Pecknold

Rand Pecknold (born February 4, 1967) is an American ice hockey coach who serves as the head coach for the men's ice hockey team at Quinnipiac University.

Rand Pecknold

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Quinnipiac
Conference	ECAC Hockey
Biographical details
Born	(1967-02-04) February 4, 1967 (age 58) Bedford, New Hampshire
Alma mater	Connecticut College (1990)
Playing career
1986–1990	Connecticut College
Position(s)	Defense
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991–1994	Connecticut College (assistant)
1994–present	Quinnipiac
Head coaching record
Overall	666–359–107 (.636)
Tournaments	13–10 (.565)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2023 NCAA Champion 1999 MAAC Champion 2000 MAAC Champion 2002 MAAC Tournament champion 2005 Atlantic Hockey Champion 2013 ECAC Hockey Champion 2015 ECAC Hockey Champion 2016 ECAC Hockey Champion 2016 ECAC Hockey Tournament champion 2019 ECAC Hockey Champion 2021 ECAC Hockey Champion 2022 ECAC Hockey Champion
Awards
2005 Atlantic Hockey Coach of the Year 2013 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year 2016 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year 2016 College Hockey News Coach of the Year 2016 Spencer Penrose Award 2021 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year 2022 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year 2023 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year
Records
Quinnipiac school record for wins: (615)
Medal record IIHF World U18 Championships Assistant coach for the  United States 2018 Russia IIHF World Junior Championships Head coach for the  United States 2023 Canada

Early life

Pecknold was born February 4, 1967, in Bedford, New Hampshire. He attended, and played varsity hockey, for Manchester High School West and Lawrence Academy. He went on to play collegiately at Division III Connecticut College, where he set single season scoring records for goals and points by a defenseman.^[1]

Career

Pecknold was an assistant hockey coach at Connecticut College for three years.^[2] Pecknold is currently the head coach of the Quinnipiac Bobcats men's ice hockey team.^[3] He took over the program at Quinnipiac in 1994 and led the transition from Division II to Division I in the 1998–99 season, when he was able to become full time as coach of the program.^[4] In his first five years at Quinnipiac, he continued to teach high school history at North Haven High School.^[5]

In his 19th season behind the bench, he led the Bobcats to the 2013 Frozen Four where they lost the National Championship game to archrival Yale.^[6] In the 2014–15 season, Pecknold reached 400 career wins, making him the 33rd Division I head coach to reach such a feat. Pecknold once again led the Bobcats to the Frozen Four in 2015–16 where they fell in the National Championship game to North Dakota 5–1.^[7] In April 2017, Pecknold was selected by USA Hockey as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's National Team at the 2017 IIHF World Championship in Germany and France.^[8] In 2022, he was named head coach of the U.S. National Junior Team at the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship in Canada.^[9] After losing to the defending and eventual back-to-back world junior champions Canada in the semifinals, Pecknold led the U.S. to the bronze medal game, where they defeated Sweden 8–7 in overtime to win the bronze medal.^[10] He coached the Quinnipiac Bobcats to the 2022–23 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Division I National Championship.^[11]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Quinnipiac Braves (ECAC South) (1994–1997)
1994–95	Quinnipiac	6–15–1	5–8–1	T–6th
1995–96	Quinnipiac	11–12–4	6–3–3	T–3rd
1996–97	Quinnipiac	13–12–2	8–6–0	4th
Quinnipiac:		30–39–7
Quinnipiac Braves Independent (1997–1998)
1997–98	Quinnipiac	19–3–1
Quinnipiac:		19–3–1
Quinnipiac Braves (MAAC) (1998–2002)
1998–99	Quinnipiac	26–6–2	22–4–2	1st	MAAC semifinals
1999–00	Quinnipiac	27–6–3	23–1–2	1st	MAAC semifinals
2000–01	Quinnipiac	22–11–4	17–7–2	2nd	MAAC runner-up
2001–02	Quinnipiac	20–13–5	15–6–5	2nd	NCAA first round
Quinnipiac:		95–36–14	77–18–11
Quinnipiac Bobcats (MAAC) (2002–2003)
2002–03	Quinnipiac	22–13–1	18–7–1	2nd	MAAC runner-up
Quinnipiac:		22–13–1	18–7–1
Quinnipiac Bobcats (Atlantic Hockey) (2003–2005)
2003–04	Quinnipiac	15–14–6	12–6–6	3rd	Atlantic Hockey Quarterfinals
2004–05	Quinnipiac	21–13–3	16–6–2	1st	Atlantic Hockey runner-up
Quinnipiac:		36–27–9	28–12–8
Quinnipiac Bobcats (ECAC Hockey) (2005–present)
2005–06	Quinnipiac	20–18–1	8–13–1	10th	ECAC quarterfinals
2006–07	Quinnipiac	21–14–5	10–8–4	5th	ECAC runner-up
2007–08	Quinnipiac	20–15–4	9–9–4	6th	ECAC quarterfinals
2008–09	Quinnipiac	18–18–3	9–10–3	7th	ECAC quarterfinals
2009–10	Quinnpiac	20–18–2	11–11–0	7th	ECAC quarterfinals
2010–11	Quinnipiac	16–15–8	6–9–7	8th	ECAC quarterfinals
2011–12	Quinnipiac	20–14–6	9–8–5	5th	ECAC quarterfinals
2012–13	Quinnipiac	30–8–5	17–2–3	1st	NCAA National Runner-Up
2013–14	Quinnipiac	24–10–6	12–6–4	3rd	NCAA Regional semifinal
2014–15	Quinnipiac	23–12–4	16–3–3	1st	NCAA Regional semifinal
2015–16	Quinnipiac	32–4–7	16–1–5	1st	NCAA National Runner-Up
2016–17	Quinnipiac	23–15–2	13–8–2	5th	ECAC semifinals
2017–18	Quinnipiac	16–18–4	9–11–2	9th	ECAC quarterfinals
2018–19	Quinnipiac	26–10–2	14–6–2	1st	NCAA Midwest Regional final
2019–20	Quinnipiac	21–11–2	14–6–2	3rd	Tournament cancelled
2020–21	Quinnipiac	17–8–4	10–4–4	1st	NCAA West Regional semifinals
2021–22	Quinnipiac	32–7–3	17–4–1	1st	NCAA Midwest Regional finals
2022–23	Quinnipiac	34–4–3	20–2–0	1st	NCAA National Champion
2023–24	Quinnipiac	27–10–2	17–4–1	1st	NCAA East Regional Final
2024–25	Quinnipiac	24–12–2	16–5–1	1st	NCAA Allentown Regional Semifinal
Quinnipiac:		458–240–75 (.641)	253–130–54 (.641)
Total:		666–359–107 (.636)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

See also

• List of college men's ice hockey coaches with 400 wins