ADRIAN COLLEGE’S AUSTYN ROUDEBUSH AND NIAGARA UNIVERSITY’S LARRY BRZECZKOWSKI ELECTED TO AMERICAN COLLEGIATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2026
Roudebush and Brzeczkowski Becomes 33rd and 34th Members of ACHA Hall of Fame
UNION LAKE, Mich. – (April 3, 2026) – The American Collegiate Hockey Association announced today that Adrian College’s Austyn Roudebush and Niagara University’s Larry Brzeczkowski have been selected as members of the ACHA Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
The Hall of Fame inductees were selected from a field of eligible nominees reviewed by the ACHA Hall of Fame Committee and recommended to the ACHA’s Board of Directors. Nominations to the Hall of Fame are made in two categories: Players and Builders. Roudebush will be enshrined in the Players Category as the 16th honoree while Brzeczkowski will be enshrined in the Builders Category as the 18th honoree.
Austyn Roudebush played four seasons as a goaltender for the Adrian College Men’s ACHA Division I hockey program from 2014 through 2018. During his time as a Bulldog, the Toledo, Ohio native was instrumental in the program’s long-standing success, which included three Great Lakes Collegiate Hockey League (GLCHL) conference regular season championships, two conference playoff championships, and an ACHA Men’s Division I National Championship; the first in Adrian College’s history.
Over his four-year Bulldog career, Roudebush had a regular season and conference playoff record of 57 wins, 3 losses, and 4 overtime/shootout games. At Nationals, Roudebush had a record of 4 wins and 2 losses, giving him an overall ACHA record of 61-5-4. Roudebush’s career save percentage in the regular season and conference playoff games was a stout 94.1 percent. At Nationals, Roudebush’s save percentage was even better, coming in at 94.9 percent over six game appearances. Roudebush finished his ACHA career with an astonishing 1.51 goals-against-average and 17 career shutouts, 15 of them coming in the regular season and conference playoffs and the other two shutouts on the ACHA’s biggest stage of the season at Nationals.
In 2015, Roudebush was named to the GLCHL All-Rookie Team as well as the GLCHL All Conference First Team. The following season, Roudebush earned GLCHL All-Conference Second Team recognition. Roudebush was selected to the GLCHL All-Conference First Team in 2018 and was also named as the GLCHL Playoff Tournament Most Valuable Player that season.
In addition to conference awards, Roudebush earned numerous national awards. He was named to the ACHA All-Rookie Team in 2015 and was selected to the ACHA All-American Third Team the following season. In 2018, Roudebush was named the ACHA Men’s Division I Player of the Year. He was also named to the All-American First Team that season. Roudebush was named Most Valuable Player for the 2018 ACHA Men’s Division I National Tournament as he led Adrian College to the 2018 ACHA Men’s Division I National Championship.
After graduating from Adrian in 2018, Roudebush enjoyed a career in professional hockey, overseas in Sweden before returning to the United States in 2019. Since 2019, Roudebush has predominantly played in the Southern Professional Hockey League with the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs, where he won the SPHL Championship in 2023 and was named the 2023 SPHL Playoff Most Valuable Player. Roudebush is currently in his eighth season of professional hockey and his sixth season between the pipes for the Rail Yard Dawgs.
Away from the ice, Roudebush found himself on Adrian College’s academic Dean’s List and contributed his free time to goaltending clinics, where he still thrives today as a full-time Goalie Director for Pro Ambitions during the professional off-season.
Larry Brzeczkowski nurtured and coached Niagara University’s ACHA Men’s Division I program for 24 years. After arriving at Niagara in 1996, Brzeczkowski started the Niagara ACHA program with minimal resources or financial assistance and only 13 players playing a local schedule in mismatched uniforms.
In the ensuing 24 years behind the bench for the Purple Eagles, Brzeczkowski’s teams won six Northeast Collegiate Hockey League (NECHL) conference titles and played in five ACHA Men’s Division I National Championship tournaments. Brzeczkowski turned Niagara ACHA hockey into an institution and a model for non-varsity sports at the collegiate level.
Retiring in June 2020, Brzeczkowski finished his Niagara coaching career with 387 victories, which ranks second on the ACHA coaching all-time win list. Brzeczkowski was named NECHL Coach of the Year four times during his time at Niagara behind the bench and guided Niagara to several top 15 rankings in ACHA Men’s Division I play.
In addition to his on-paper accomplishments, Brzeczkowski has served as a father-figure, player representative, spokesperson, role model, friend, sponsor and colleague to an infinite amount of people throughout his career leading the Niagara University ACHA program. Brzeczkowski’s philanthropic nature continues today through the charitable donations the Niagara ACHA program continues to make on an annual basis, the most notable foundation being Suneel’s Light, an organization dedicated to funding research to help eradicate Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy from the world.
Roudebush and Brzeczkowski will be honored at the upcoming 2026 ACHA Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, along with ACHA Hall of Fame Class of 2024 inductee, Kaley Mooney.
For more information, please contact ACHA Executive Director Craig Barnett at cbarnett@achahockey.org.
Members of the ACHA Hall of Fame
2007 Tom Keegan Builder
2007 Don Spencer Builder
2008 Joe Battista Builder
2008 Jesse Hubenschmidt Player
2009 Josh Brandwene Builder
2010 Doug Waack Builder
2010 Will McMahon Player
2011 Craig McCarthy Builder
2012 Alon Eizenman Player
2013 Rich Holdeman Builder
2013 Glenn Detulleo Player
2014 Zoe Harris Builder
2014 William (BJ) DePaoli Player
2014 Adam Thomas Player
2015 Brent Cooper Player
2015 Justin Sand Player
2016 Marshall Stevenson Builder
2016 Mike Radakovich Builder
2017 Dan Morris Builder
2017 Thomas Krysil Player
2018 Dr. Gerald Caple Builder
2019 Dr. Alan Murdoch Builder
2019 Mike Sargo Player
2020 Anthony Feyock Player
2021 Sam Kelly Builder
2021 Carrie Jickling Player
2021 Joshua Mandel Player
2022 Christian Wilk Builder
2022 Greg Powers Builder
2022 Jonathan Tibaudo Player
2024 Mike Petrusma Builder
2024 Kaley Mooney Player
2026 Austyn Roudebush Player
2026 Larry Brzeczkowski Builder
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About American Collegiate Hockey Association
The American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) was founded in 1991 and is the national association for Non-NCAA Collegiate Hockey throughout the United States. Our organization of more than 450 colleges and university-affiliated teams representing 48 states provides structure, regulates operations, and promotes the sport of Hockey nationwide. With approximately 13,000 players and coaches as well as countless volunteers and game officials, the ACHA has experienced tremendous growth over the past decade and continues to be a viable option for college bound student-athletes to continue playing competitive hockey nationwide. Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the ACHA’s primary mission is to support the growth of Collegiate Hockey while emphasizing academic performance, personal development, and opportunities for regional, national, and international competition. The ACHA identifies standards which serve to unite and regulate teams at the collegiate level and completed its 35th season in March 2026. For more information, visit achahockey.org.
