Alex Gettens

Colgate University Athletics

Title

Assistant Women's Hockey Coach
Email

agettens@colgate.edu
Phone

315-228-7849
Alma Mater

Vermont '17

Coaching Experience

Assistant Coach, Colgate University (2024-pr.)
Associate Head Coach, University of Vermont (2023-24)
Assistant Coach, University of Vermont (2018-23)
Assistant Coach, University of Maine (2017-18)

Education

B.S., University of Vermont (2017)

Before Colgate

Alex Gettens was named as an Assistant Women's Hockey Coach in August of 2024. He spent the past seven years in Burlington, VT, starting in 2018 as an assistant before spending the 2023-24 season as an associate head coach. He helped develop six Hockey East All-Stars with the Catamounts including a first team All-American and conference Rookie of the Year.

The New Hampshire native spent one season with the University of Maine women's hockey team in 2017, helping the Black Bears to one of the most successful seasons in program history. The squad peaked at eighth in the national rankings and were included in the top-10 for six weeks out of the season, posting 19 wins (the most-ever recorded in a single season) and winning the school's first-ever playoff victory.

As the goaltenders coach, Gettens developed an All-League honorable mention netminder that posted a .928 save percentage.

During his collegiate career, Gettens was a student assistant at Vermont during the 2016-17 season primarily overseeing the goalies. Gettens also spent that year at the USA Hockey U15 and U18 National Development Camp working as an Intern Coach, assisting in practice planning, camp curriculum, and daily on-ice drills.

Gettens worked two stints in hockey operations, one with Vermont's men's team during 2014-15 and the other on the women's side from 2014 - 2016. He started his coaching career in 2011 with the St. Paul's School women's hockey team, helping the squad to a New England Prep School Championship in 2015.