# @d3hky on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-06-24T18:11:40.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** D3 Hockey (@d3hky) — https://gondola.cc/d3hky

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St. John Fisher University has named Reid Lesswing (R) & Scott McDonald (L) as their inaugural coaches for varsity ice hockey beginning in the 2025-2026 season. Both teams will compete in the #UCHC. 

Lesswing, a Buffalo, NY native, is a 2014 graduate of Castleton University & comes to SJFU from SUNY Plattsburgh, where he served as men’s ice hockey assistant coach & operations manager since 2019. Prior to that, Lesswing also had coaching stints with SUNY Fredonia, Castleton & Team South Africa (#IIHF Div. 3). 

He also played professional hockey for the Louisiana Ice Gators (#SPHL) in 2014 after a collegiate career with Castleton University in Vermont. While with the Spartans, Lesswing played 98 games accumulating 15 points with two goals, thirteen assists. He served as team captain his senior year.

McDonald, an Oakville, ON, CAN native, joins SJFU after three seasons as player development coach of the Bishop Kearney (NY) Selects Girls Hockey program. Prior to that, McDonald served as women’s ice hockey head coach at Rochester Institute of Technology from 2006-2018 where he accumulated a 205-154-29 record. The team won the #NCAA Division III National Championship in 2012. He served as assistant coach with #RIT men’s ice hockey the three seasons prior and had the same role with Utica College men’s ice hockey in 2002-2003.

McDonald graduated from Niagara University where he was a member of the Purple Eagles hockey team from 1996-2000. He was a part of the programs transition into #NCAA Division I in 1998. McDonald played a total of 80 collegiate games (both D1/D3) while racking up 37 points with fourteen goals, twenty-three assists. He had a brief stint with the San Angelo Outlaws (#WPHL) in the 2000-2001 season.

H/T: St. John Fisher Athletics

#NCAAHockey | #D3hky

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