Varsity

Head Coach: Brian Kinsella

Mr. Brian Kinsella begins his first season as coach of the Varsity Hockey Knights.

Mr. Kinsella played hockey in the NHL (Washington Capitals), the AHL (Springfield, Massachusetts), and the IHL, where he played for Dayton, Kalamazoo, Port Huron and Toledo. At Dayton, he was a member of a Turner Cup team in 1975-76, and played for the Toledo Goaldiggers when they won two Turner Cups (1981-84). He scored more than 500 points in the IHL and holds the IHL record for the fastest overtime goal in playoffs.

His coaching experience includes serving as travel coach for Mite through Midget teams, JV coach at Bedford from 1999-2002, Bedford Varsity Assistant coach during the 2003 season, and the Toledo Cherokee assistant coach from 2003-2006. He was past president of the Northwest Ohio Ice Hockey Officials Association from 1998-2003, and has been a high school official for 15 years.

Kinsella and his wife Laura have two grown sons, Derek, 22, and Kevin, 19, both of whom are licensed hockey officials. He has worked for Marshall-Kloene Orthopedics as a Board Certified Orthotist for 21 years.

Assistant Coach: Chris Varga

This season marks Mr. Chris Varga's first season on the Knight coaching staff. He coached as as assistant at Woodward High School for three seasons, and was the Head Coach for four seasons at Bedford High School. He also served as Head Coach of the Toledo Cherokees Junior B team for three years.

Coach Varga was under contract with the Toronto Maple Leags and the Boston Bruins.

He was recently married to Amanda

Assistant Coach: Derek Kinsella

Derek Kinsella played travel hockey with Toledo Optimist Youth Hockey Association, and played varsity hockey at Bedford High School. He is currently a student at Owens College, where he is studying Criminal Justice. He has recently enlisted in the Air National Guard.

This is Derek's first year on the Knight coaching staff, but he has several years experience as a USA Hockey official and a high school official.

Assistant Coach: Ben Geiger

Coach Geiger is experiencing his first coaching opportunity at the high school level. Ben comes to the St. Francis team, after coaching the SFS Junior High Team for the past 5 years. Before coaching in the Junior High League, Ben coached a State Championship Bantam A team.

Ben grew up in Toledo, playing many different levels of Sylvania travel hockey. He then attended St. Francis de Sales High School, graduating in 2001. He was a 4 year member of both the hockey program and the football program. Ben ended his playing career with the St. Francis Varsity Hockey team.

After high school, Ben attended BGSU, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 2005. Ben currently works for Capital Tire Inc. as a member of the sales staff. Coach Geiger is very excited about the opportunity to develop the upcoming Knights for the future.

Assistant Coach: Mark Waddell

This is Coach Waddell's second season with the Knights. Previously, Mark coached at Whitmer High School, winning the league championship in the 2004-2005 season. Before coming to Toledo, Mark coached in the Cleveland area for youth travel hockey teams. He has also been involved in the USA Mid-Am Try-outs for 4 years.

Mark is originally from North Olmsted, Ohio where he grew up playing travel hockey. He graduated from North Olmsted High School, where he played hockey as a member of the Varsity team for all four years.

Currently Coach Waddell is the Tam-O-Shanter Pro Shop Manager and attends the University of Toledo where he is working towards his degree in Entrepreneurship of Family and Small Business.

General Manager: Michael Marciniak

Mike Marciniak was born and raised in Toledo and is a 1960 graduate of Central Catholic High School where he played in the first St. Francis/Central Catholic football game, won by the Knights 28-0. Mike's involvement with St. Francis began when his son enrolled here and played both football and hockey. In the twenty fifth meeting of St. Francis vs. Central in football, in which Mike's son was the starting center, St. Francis won again, also by a score of 28-0. After high school, Mike was awarded a full athletic scholarship to Michigan State University where he played football all four years and graduated with a degree in business.

After college and a two-year stint in the U.S. Army, he began his career in public accounting and became a CPA in 1969. Presently, he's a retired partner with the firm Plante & Moran, and continues to work for them on special assignments. Mike's service to St. Francis began in 1981 when Mitch was a freshman playing for the Knight's hockey team. The team was young in age, stature, and organization. He joined the parents support group and began to help with administrative matters. At that time, the team was somewhat of a stepchild and Mike promised Fr. Olszewski and Dick Mattingly that he would lend his help for five years after Mitch graduated......he's beginning his twenty seventh season as the team's general manager, performing such duties as scheduling games and practices, buying equipment, paying the bills, managing collections, making travel arrangements, and maintaining uniforms (he can use the sewing machine pretty well, just ask his wife Joyce). In 2002 he was inducted in to the St. Francis Hall of Fame for Outstanding Service, an award which is presented annually to a non-graduate of the school.

He remains active in other areas of the sport as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sylvania Tam O'Shanter Arena, and with other community and civic organizations.

Trainer: Rob Poolos

Rob is a 1991 graduate of the University of Toledo/Medical University of Ohio in Physical Therapy. Upon graduation he relocated to Ft. Collins, CO where he resided for 12 years. During his time in Colorado, he worked with a group of 15 orthopedic surgeons specializing in sports medicine and post-operative rehabilitation of knee and shoulder injuries. In 1995 Rob received his athletic training certification and became the team physical therapist and assistant athletic trainer for the Colorado State University football team and athletic program. In the summer of 2004 he and his family returned to the Toledo area. He is currently employed at Toledo Orthopedic Rehabilitation as a senior physical therapist. Rob, his wife, cindy, and children Zach and Hope currently reside in Sylvania. He is excited to be part of the upcoming hockey season.

He remains active in other areas of the sport as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sylvania Tam O’Shanter Arena, and with other community and civic organizations.