Greg Carvel is the head coach of the University of Massachusetts Amherst men's ice hockey team in Amherst, Massachusetts, and enters his 11th season leading the Minutemen in 2026-27. UMass named him the program's 14th head coach on March 29, 2016, and his tenure has coincided with the most successful period in school history, including the program's first NCAA Division I men's ice hockey national championship in 2020-21 and consecutive Hockey East tournament titles in 2021 and 2022. He was the 2019 Spencer Penrose Award winner and previously worked in the National Hockey League before taking over at Massachusetts.
In 2025-26, Carvel guided UMass to a 22-13-1 record, the program's ninth 20-win season overall and the seventh 20-win campaign of his time in Amherst. The Minutemen reached the Hockey East semifinals at TD Garden and finished 17th in the NPI. That season also added to a long list of individual honors earned by UMass players under Carvel, including Michael Hrabal becoming the program's first Mike Richter Award finalist and receiving first-team All-America recognition, while Jack Musa and Larry Keenan also earned major postseason honors. By that point, Carvel had coached 11 All-Americans, three Hockey East Players of the Year, 10 New England All-Stars and 29 Hockey East All-Stars at UMass.
