Josh Hauge, Associate Head Coach - Clarkson University (NCAAM-DI)

Entering his sixth year on the Golden Knights coaching staff, Josh Hauge came to Clarkson in the Fall of 2015 from the Fargo Force in the United States Hockey League where he served as assistant coach and director of Scouting in 2014-15. 

In his first five years at Clarkson, Hauge has played an integral role on Coach Jones’ staff, helping to bring the Golden Knights back to national prominence. Since the 2015-16 season, the Green and Gold have skated to 110 victories, four 20-win campaigns, claimed the 2019 ECAC Hockey Championship Tournament title and participated in the past two (2018, 2019) NCAA Tournaments. Last season Clarkson skated to a 23-8-3 overall record and a second place 16-5-1 ECAC Hockey mark. The Knights were poised for postseason success and were rated ninth in the final NCAA Pairwise rankings before the COVID 19 pandemic forced an abrupt end to the college hockey season in early March.

The Knights have brought in several standout recruiting classes to Clarkson in recent years with four Golden Knights earning ECAC Hockey All-Rookie team honors over the past three seasons. Five Clarkson players have been selected in the NHL Draft since 2017. 

While with Fargo, Hauge helped the Force improve their win total by 12 games from the previous season. His duties included working with the power play, forwards, recruitment of players and running the USHL Draft along with the handling of NCAA Clearinghouse and educational issues of the team. He joined the Force after acting as the Head Coach/General Manager of the Tri-City Storm for parts of the previous three seasons. 

As Head Coach and General Manager with Tri-City from 2011-14, Hauge guided 100% of his players to NCAA Division I or pro hockey. He led the Storm to a 2012 playoff appearance and a 20-18-1 record after a 6-15 start. Hauge, 36, also served as the head coach for the Fairbank Ice Dogs in the North American Hockey League's West Division from 2008-11. In three seasons he compiled a regular-season record of 111-49-15 (.694 winning percentage) and was 20-9-0 in the post-season, which included a 10-1-0 mark in the 2011 playoffs as the Ice Dogs won the Robertson Cup.  

A native Rosemount, MN, Hauge has coached teams to one national championship, two national championship runner-ups, three league championships, two league championship runner-ups, two regular season titles, four divisional championships, named coach of the year once, and has a career winning percentage of .633 (250-138-32).