Chaminade Red Devils Hockey

Now in his 16th season behind the bench coaching the Chaminade Varsity Red Devils, Hrubes is also a proud alumni of the class of 1991 where he was also a Four Year Varsity Hockey player as well as a Varsity soccer and baseball player. 

Chris is entering his ninth season coaching the Chaminade Red Devils. He spent his first two years behind the Chaminade bench coaching the Junior Varsity team before joining Coach Buha as an Assistant Coach. While with the Varsity team, Chaminade has appeared in three Mid-States Semi-Finals and two State Championship games. This year Chris will also taking over duties as the General Manager of Chaminade Hockey.

Brent “Biz” Wiley is entering his fourth year coaching the Varsity program at Chaminade. Wiley was brought on board to work mainly with the offense. In his first year as an assistant coach, the team played in their third ever State Championship.

This will be Steve’s second year coaching the Varsity after 3 seasons coaching the JV team.  Steve’s illustrious hockey career began as a mini-mite for the Creve Coeur Comets.  He played at Creve Coeur through the Pee Wee level. His Creve Coeur Pee Wee AA team is most known for winning the 1995 Gateway Classic Championship.  He then moved on to play with Team Quebec, as well as the AAA Amateur Blues.

Steve traded in the skates for cleats in college and enjoyed a fine career as a first baseman on the Rockhurst University baseball team.  Steve studied Business Management at Rockhurst and then went back for a 5th year to get his MBA.  Steve currently can be found at Brentwood Ice Rink playing for the TSI Pipers as well as the Mattingly Lumberjacks.

Nathan Hirsch is in his third year as the Head Coach of the Chaminade JV team.  Coach Hirsch came to Chaminade after four years as the Head Coach of the Affton Squirt CSDHL team.  During his time at Affton , Coach Hirsch took his team to two CSDHL Finals appearances as well as one Silver Stick AA Finals appearance.  He also has coaching experience at the Mid-States level as an Assistant Coach on both the Varsity and JV teams at De Smet.

This is Chris’ third year behind the bench for Chaminade after graduating from the University of Dayton. While at UD, Chris played four years of hockey in the ACHA and a top scorer. Prior to the University of Dayton, Chris wore the Red Devil Red & Black under Coaches Buha and Hrubes and was both a power forward and a solid defenseman.   While at Chaminade, Ambrose also played Midget Major Central States at Affton. We look forward to having Chris on the Chaminade Coaching staff and is a welcomed addition.

This is Marc’s second year coaching in the Chaminade hockey program. Marc graduated in 2009 from the University of Colorado where he played four years of ACHA hockey. While at CU, Marc played in four national championship tournaments, finishing as high as 7th place out of the 200 teams in the league. Coach Hrubes groomed Marc into a hard-working goaltender during his career at Chaminade from 2001-2005. Marc’s older brother, Michael Torrente, also played at Chaminade under Coach Hrubes. Marc grew up in the Chesterfield hockey association where he played for 10 years.

Marc graduated with a B.S. in Finance and an M.S. in Accounting form CU. He currently works for Stifel Nicolaus as an Alternative Investments Analyst.

Keith has been coaching with Racine Goalie Academy and has been the goalie skills instructor for KYHA for 3 years. Keith has also been the goalie coach for Priory high school. In high school Keith played for Chaminade College Prep as well for the AAA Amateur Blues for four seasons. Before transferring to Mizzou to study advertising, Keith spent his freshman year playing at Bowling Green State University in the CCHA. His best hockey memories include winning a Silver Sticks gold medal and goalie MVP and playing for Team Missouri his senior year of high school. Keith was also a teammate of the St. Louis Blues Ben Bishop while both were attending Chaminade.