Chris LaPerle

McGill University Athletics

Title

Asst. Coach & Video Coordinator

Chris LaPerle joined the coaching staff as a video coordinator at McGill University in 2010-11 and in his first two seasons, the Redmen hockey team reached the gold medal game of the CIS championship tournament, which McGill won in 2011-12.

It marked the fourth national title for Laperle, who was an assistant coach at Middlebury College in Vermont when they won back-to-back NCAA Division III national championships in 2004-05 and 2005-06. He was also a volunteer assistant hockey coach for the University of Denver in 2003-04 when the Pioneers won the NCAA Division I national championship.

LaPerle previously served as head coach and general manager for Cleveland Barons midget major AAA hockey club in Cleveland, Ohio and was the head coach of the Senior Boys Spartans at Stanstead College, where he was also a teacher in the school's Math & Science Department.

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, LaPerle received his Bachelor of Science degree from New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University), where he played varsity hockey and earned four letters as a forward for the Penmen. He received his master's in Sport Administration at SNHU in 2003.

LaPerle has also worked at summer hockey programs at the University of Maine and Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.