Mo Stroemel
- SPECIAL PROJECTS ASSISTANT / COORDINATOR OF ACDC PROGRAM
Mo Stroemel was named Coordinator for the American Collegiate Development Conference (ACDC) and oversee's both the men’s and women’s ACDC programs. In addition, Stroemel will also serve as the ACHA’s Special Projects Assistant to the Executive Director.
Stroemel has been involved in some way with the ACHA since 1994 when he became Assistant Coach at M2 Penn State University. Stroemel served as assistant coach at Penn State before taking over as Head Coach in 1997. He remained in that position until 2003 when he stepped down to assist with Penn State’s Men’s Division I program. As Head Coach, Stroemel amassed a record of 131 wins, 62 losses, and 12 ties, while taking the team to the ACHA National Tournament four times.
In 2007, Stroemel took over the head coaching duties for Penn State’s women’s hockey team, leading the team to a fifth-place finish at the 2010 ACHA National Tournament. His Penn State team also appeared in the 2011 Eastern Collegiate Women’s Hockey League Final Four.
From 2011 through 2013, Stroemel assisted with the transition to elevate women’s hockey at Penn State from the ACHA to the NCAA, acting first as Associate Head Coach and later as Director of Hockey Operations. He helped to standardize and codify hockey operations and provided his template to the Penn State men’s NCAA hockey program as well.
Stroemel has twice served as Head Coach of the U.S. Women’s University Team competing at the Winter World University Games. At the 2011 WWUG in Erzurum, Turkey, Stroemel’s team finished fifth in the international competition. Two years later at the 2013 WWUG in Trentino, Italy, Stroemel’s team stunned Russia in the opening game and directed the U.S. Women’s University Team through the tournament to a bronze medal finish, the first medal ever awarded to the United States for hockey at a Winter World University Games.
Stroemel retired from coaching in 2017 with a record of 250 wins, 129 losses, and 15 ties as head coach through two divisions. Stroemel most recently served as the ACHA’s Director of Hockey Operations from 2017 through 2020.
Professionally, Stroemel is a nationally recognized Theatre Technical Director who taught at Penn State for 24 years. He is also a part-time entertainment rigger in Nashville and is an ETCP Certified Theatre Rigger.
Stroemel graduated from Penn State in 1980 with a B.A. in advertising and earned his M.F.A. Theatre degree from Penn State in 2002. A performing songwriter, Stroemel has performed as both a solo artist and with a band in Nashville, Philadelphia, London, Toronto, State College, and Naples, FL. Stroemel resides in Nashville with his wife, Joan, and has two adult children, Sarah and Tom.
