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Mike Gore named 2023/24 Knights 14U LA Head Coach

By Loudoun Knights Staff, 03/23/23, 1:00PM EDT

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The Loudoun Knights are pleased to announce that Michael Gore will be the head coach of our 14U LA team for the 23/24 season!

"Mike has given so much to this organization since its inception and is highly respected among his coaching peers and Loudoun Knights families", said Loudoun Knights Hockey Director Craig Desjarlais. "Mike genuinely understands that his role as a youth hockey coach is to develop, mentor and keep the game fun for the kids on his team".

Coach Gore was born and raised on the Jersey Shore, near Long Beach Island, NJ. As a child, he played football, ice hockey, inline/street hockey, and baseball. He was also a wrestler and an avid surfer and snowboarder throughout his youth. Michael’s father was a local Roller Hockey Coach and a House Ice Hockey Coach at Brick Ice Palace. When Michael was a Junior at Stockton College (Now Stockton University), he tried out for the first Club Ice Hockey team in school history and soon thereafter started playing Men’s Ice Hockey Leagues in South Jersey, to include rinks in Atlantic City, Vineland, and Voorhees. Michael also played in inline hockey leagues in Wall Township. In 2006 Michael graduated from Stockton and subsequently joined the Army Reserves. To this day Coach Gore still plays adult league hockey fulfilling his passion for the sport. 

Currently a USA Hockey Level 4 Coach, Michael is registered to attend the Level 5 Seminar this Spring, showing his dedication to become the best coach he can. In additon to coaching, Michael is currently a Level 3 On-Ice Official for USA Hockey. Coach Gore has been with the Loudoun Knights since the inaugInural season, as an assistant coach on the 14U Bantam A/LA Teams (2x), Knights' Girls Program, and 12ULA Knights Team. During the 2021-2022 season, he coached the 16U/14U Castles Program and 14U Selects Team. Prior to that, Coach Gore was an assistant coach with the Ashburn Selects 12U Team (2019), and a coach with the Carolina Lightning 8U Travel Lite team. 

We are thrilled to have Coach Gore take on his first head coaching role with the Knights.