Minnesota Gophers assistant, Detroit Lakes native Garrett Raboin tabbed to start Augustana hockey program

SIOUX DROPS, S.D. – A few of one of the most crucial training experience Bob Motzko got before running the university programs at St. Cloud State as well as Minnesota came throughout the 3 periods he invested as head train as well as basic supervisor of the USHL’s Sioux Falls Charge. Motzko’s veteran aide train as well as protege Garrett Raboin is quickly to head to Sioux Falls for his largest training possibility.

On Monday early morning, April 18, Augustana College called Raboin the very first head train in the background of their brand-new Department I guys’s hockey program, which is readied to start play in the loss of 2023. Raboin, that transformed 37 on the day the Gophers secured their journey to the 2022 NCAA Frozen 4, has actually been a Gophers aide train as well as principal employer under Motzko for the previous 4 periods, as well as before that functioned as well as bet Motzko at SCSU.

“I am unbelievably humbled as well as recognized to have actually been picked as the very first leader of Augustana Males’s Hockey,” Raboin claimed, in a declaration launched by the college. “This is the correct time, at the ideal college, with the ideal management, to bring Department I university hockey to South Dakota. My family members as well as I are thrilled to end up being a component of the Sioux Falls area, we can’t wait!”

Initially, from Detroit Lakes, Minn., Raboin played protection for the Huskies from 2006-10, after that played properly in Scandinavia for components of 2 periods. Motzko employed him as an assistant train in 2012 as well as they have actually collaborated for the previous years.

“Garrett Raboin is among real increasing celebrities in the hockey globe, as well as Augustana made a fantastic selection in choosing him as the very first head train of the Vikings hockey program,” claimed Motzko, that had actually been a solid supporter for Raboin to obtain his very own program to run. “I have actually recognized Garrett for near twenty years, as well as I have a tremendous quantity of satisfaction as well as regard for the train as well as individual he has actually come to be. He has actually constructed an exceptional course as a leader, educator as well as employer at St. Cloud State as well as currently at Minnesota, as well as it’s absolutely unique to see his devotion as well as effort finish currently with his very first head training setting at Augustana.”

The Vikings will certainly start play as a Department I independent in a brand-new structure presently unfinished on their university. Midco Field is a $40 million job which will certainly seat 3,000 for hockey. They will certainly be the very first university university hockey program in South Dakota. In revealing the enhancement of hockey, Augustana sports supervisor Josh Morton emphasized their beneficial geographical area with North Dakota to the north, the Colorado institutions to the west, Omaha to the south as well as the Minnesota institutions to the eastern.

“We began this procedure searching for somebody that can construct an across the country affordable guys’s hockey program that completes at Department I as well as we sure located him,” Morton claimed. “Garrett is a tried and tested champion, exceptional employer as well as will certainly assist us construct area enjoyment for Augustana hockey. He is a fantastic enhancement as well as will certainly contribute to the quality of Augustana sports.”

The college will certainly hold a main initial interview on Tuesday, April 19, to invite Raboin as well as his family members to Sioux Falls. Garrett as well as his partner Emily have 3 children.