Doug and Kay Waack - a tribute

We salute Doug & Kay Waack who served 14 years as General Manager and Public Relations/Tickets for Eastern Michigan Hockey. Along with former Head Coach, Mike Donnelly, Doug (and Kay) started the rebirth of EMU as a national powerhouse back in 1988-89. Since that auspicious start, the Eagles have made the ACHA National Championships every year since 1990-91. With two (2) National Runner-up titles in that time span, we keep wondering when we will get to take that drink out of the Murdoch Cup? Hopefully, with some hard work and determination, that dream can come true this season. God knows that this team and this program deserve it!

Doug and Kay have given much to EMU Hockey in the past 14 seasons. Doug says, “We both feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to take part in the development of so many young student athletes lives over the years, affording them an opportunity to play competitive collegiate hockey, but also to take with them (hopefully) a lifetime of fond memories of their college hockey years.”

Doug is extremely proud of the team’s accomplishments of the past seasons and especially the last two seasons and looks forward to this season with great anticipation and enthusiasm -- new enthusiasm because of the appointment of our new Head Coach, Paul Fassbender, "in whom I have the utmost faith and confidence in to continue the “tradition” of those before him. Paul will do an excellent job as Head Coach of this program. He, along with his new assistants this year have a tough act to follow but I am confident that they all will prove to our competition, our peers, and colleagues throughout the country that the right decision was made regarding the Head Coaching position here at EMU!

Doug and Kay would both like to express thanks to the hundreds of players of EMU Hockey (present and past) for their outstanding dedication to the EMU Hockey program and "for making the hockey program here at EMU something that both Kay and I can be proud to have been associated with. And to all of them for also giving us some really great and fond memories, especially from those early days.”