The University of Mary Marauders

Bringing over three decades of experience as an administrator and coach in collegiate athletics at several levels of competition, Daniel Huntley joined the University of Mary as the assistant athletic director for internal operations in January 2016. He was named head coach of the Marauders inaugural hockey team in September 2017 and served as the interim Director of Athletics from April 2022- February 2023.
 
Promoted to Associate Director of Athletics at UMary in November 2016, and to Senior Associate Director of Athletics in March of 2023, Huntley oversees the business operations and budgeting for Marauders athletics.
 
One year after announcing the start of the Marauders hockey program, the Marauders took to the ice in September 2018 in front of an overflow crowd with fans being turned away at the door. The Marauders won their first 15 games and became the top-ranked team in the ACHA Division II West region.
 
By their third season, the Marauders not only had become a national power but a champion, winning the 2020-21 ACHA Men’s DII National Championship on their home ice in Mandan, ND. UMary overwhelmed the field by outscoring its opponents 23-2 in over five games. The Marauders were the #1 overall seed of the tournament and swept their bracket with wins over Davenport University, the University of Providence and North Carolina State. UMary then dispatched Liberty University in the semi-final and beat Iowa State University 2-0 in the championship game in front of a sold-out crowd at the Starion Sports Complex Schwan Cadillac Rink.
 
In season four, the Marauders defended their national title in St. Louis, MO, again going undefeated while outscoring their opponents 24-5 at the 2021-22 ACHA Men’s DII championship tournament. In round robin play UMary swept its bracket by beating the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Northeastern University. UMary then beat Lindenwood University on the Lions home rink in the semifinals before recording an epic victory against Florida Gulf Coast University, winning 3-2 in three overtime periods for the second straight Marauders championship.
 
Under the direction of Huntley, a two-time ACHA Men's DII National Coach of the Year (2019-20, 2020-21), he has created one of the top ACHA hockey programs in the nation year in and year out. Huntley has a .775 winning percentage as the coach of the Marauders and his teams have qualified for the ACHA National Tournament every season they have been eligible.
 
In 2023-24 the Marauders moved from ACHA DII to ACHA MI and membership in the Midwest College Hockey (MCH). Current MCH members include Iowa State, Minot State, McKendree, Waldorf, Midland and Jamestown. The Marauders were regular season and post season MCH runner-up in 2023-24.
 
Many Marauders have been recognized for exceptional on and off ice performances in the first seven seasons of play:

ACHA Men’s DII National Player of the Year-2 players
ACHA Men’s DII National Tournament MVP-2 players
ACHA Men’s DII National All-Tournament Team-12 players
ACHA Men’s DII All-American-11 players
ACHA Men’s DII West Region Player of the Year-3 players
ACHA Men’s DII West All-West Region-10 players
ACHA Men’s DII Coach of the Year-2x (2019-20, 2020-21)
ACHA Men’s DII West Region Coach of the Year-1x
ACHA Men’s DII Academic All-American-33 players
 
ACHA Men’s DI National Tournament All-Tournament Team-2 players
ACHA Men’s DI All-Athletic Team-1 player
ACHA Men’s DI National All-Rookie Team-1 player
ACHA Men’s DI Academic All-American-13 players
 
Coach Huntley is also very proud to have the Marauders recognized as the winner of the ACHA DII Community Service Award  in 2019-20. Making an impact on the ice, in the classroom and in the community is part of the culture being developed in the hockey program.
 
OVERALL RECORD (W-L-OTL-T-SOW-SOL)
2018-19          38-5-1-2-1-0   ACHA M2
2019-20          39-9-2-0-0-0   ACHA M2
2020-21          38-4-1-6-0-0   ACHA M2
2021-22          38-4-1-2-0-0   ACHA M2
2022-23          37-6-3-1-1-0   ACHA M2
2023-24          26-14-0-0-0-1 ACHA M1
2024-25          23-14-1-0-0-0 ACHA M1
Total               239-56-9-11-2-1

Huntley joined the University of Mary after serving as the Director of Athletics at Marshalltown (Iowa) Community College for four years. Previously Huntley was the athletic director at Concordia University Texas and the University of Texas at Brownsville, worked as an associate commissioner of an athletic conference, served as a sports information director, and won a national NJCAA hockey championship as head coach.
 
Named the Marshalltown Community College Director of Athletics in January 2012, Huntley worked with all areas of campus, in addition to overseeing an athletics department that featured two teams advancing to regional championship games and a men’s soccer team who qualified for the NJCAA national tournament. Under his direction Tiger Athletic Club funds increased by 300 percent and participation in the Tiger Days Golf Tournament increased 250 percent.
 
Huntley joined Concordia University Texas in Austin, Texas, in the summer 2008 as the school relocated from its downtown Austin location to NW Austin. Welcomed by new athletic facilities and a staff of mostly part-time coaches, he worked to increase the NCAA Division III school’s athletic offerings to 13 varsity sports with the addition of men’s and women’s track and made all the head coaching positions full-time. He also secured what was at that time the largest gift in school history to complete the university’s new baseball field.
 
As the athletics director at the University of Texas at Brownsville from 2005-2008, Huntley led the Scorpions from NJCAA to full membership as a four-year school competing in the NAIA and added men’s and women’s soccer to the school’s mix of athletic programs.
 
From 2000-2005 he served in many different capacities at Northland College in Ashland, WI. Huntley spent five years coaching the men’s ice hockey team, two years as the men’s and women’s cross-country coach, two years as the sports information director and was named the school’s first Assistant Director of Athletics in 2003. He also served as the Secretary/Treasurer for the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association from 2001-2005 and as an Associate Commissioner of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference in 2004-05.
 
During the 1999-2000 academic year, Huntley stepped out of the collegiate scene and served as the head coach of the Midget AAA hockey team at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in Faribault, Minn.
 
From 1994-1999, Huntley was the head hockey coach at Rainy River Community College and Director of Residential and Student Life. His teams were 78-40-4 overall, placed fourth in 1996 at the NJCAA National Tournament and won the national championship in 1999. He coached 14 All-Americans, earned three NJCAA Region XIII Ice Hockey Coach of the Year honors and was the 1999 NJCAA National Ice Hockey Coach of the Tournament. His success earned him induction into the NJCAA Ice Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2015) and the Minnesota College Athletic Conference Hall of Fame (2021).
 
Huntley began his hockey coaching career as an assistant at the College of St. Scholastica (1990-91) in Duluth, MN, before working as a high school assistant hockey coach in Minnesota at the St. Paul Academy and Summit Schools (1991-93) and Apple Valley (1993-94).
 
A native of Eagan, MN, Huntley was a four-year letter winner as a defenseman for the St. Scholastica hockey team from 1986-90 and missed just two games in his career. A two-sport letter winner in high school, he earned all-conference honors in both baseball and hockey and was a team captain at Henry Sibley in Mendota Heights, MN.
 
A 1991 graduate from the College of St. Scholastica with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Health Science, he earned a Master of Arts degree in Education from the University of St. Thomas in 1993.
 
Huntley and his wife, Jennifer, have two sons; Gavin and Kelsey Huntley (daughter Margo) and Mason Huntley.