2011-12 Coaches

Midget 18AA

2011-12 - Coach Matt Montagna will enter his 8th season as a Head Coach in the DVHL and his 3rd as head coach of the Midget Major 18AA.  In 2010, Matt led his Midget Major team to the Eastern Pennsylvania Championship and the US National Tournament Quarterfinals, and he holds the distinct honor of being the first coach in the history of the club to do so. In his first season, Coach Matt led his 2004-05 Midget Minor team to the DVHL Playoffs. Over the last five years Matt’s teams have a combined record of 86-25-12 in league play with two DVHL Playoff  (2010 and 2011) and two Atlantic District Playoff appearances( 2007 and 2010). In 2009 and again in 2010 his teams won the Philadelphia Silver Stick championships and made trips to the International Silver Sticks Finals in Newmarket and Sarnia, Ontario ending as semi-finalist in 2010. Coach Matt also spent 3 seasons as an assistant with the Wildcat Bantams.  Matt spent his playing years on many District teams with both the Wintersport Royals and the Wildcats and is the first person to both play and coach in the Wildcats Organization.  Coach Montagna also played Varsity hockey for William Tennent High School from 1997 to 1999.

Coach Montagna received his Advanced Level 4 Coaching Certification in 2000 and graduated from Temple University in 2004.  He continues to work with young adults off the ice in our community as a High School teacher in the Souderton School District where he is also the Varsity Head Coach.

2011-12 Coach Bill George will be entering his 6th year with the Wildcats and the Wildcats Midget Program. Bill’s extensive playing career started in the DVHL where he ended his Midget playing days with the Wildcats in the year 2000. He also played four years of Varsity hockey at William Tennent High School from 1996-2000. Coach Bill went onto to play 5 years at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he served has the captain for his final 4 seasons while leading them to the ACHA National Tournament in three of those years.

2011-12- Coach Jeff Montagna will enter his 13th season as a Coach in the DVHL, In 2010 Jeff led his team to the Atlantic District Championship finals.  Jeff has coached at the Peewee, Bantam and Midget Minor/Major Levels over his tenure and has spent the last 5 years at the Midget Minor level.  

Jeff spent his playing years with the Wintersport Royals and captained his 1993 Midget team to the US Nationals .  Coach Montagna also played Varsity hockey for Archbishop Wood from 1990 to 1993. 

Coach Montagna received his Advanced Level 4 Coaching Certification in 2000.

Mark Montagna - Assistant Coach montagna@wildcatsicehockey.com

2011-12 - Coach Mark Montagna will enter his 21st season as a coach in the DVHL.  Mark has coached at mite through midget over his tenure and spent 6 years at the Midget Major level where he led his 2003-04 Major team to the Atlantic Districts.  He has spent the last two years at the midget minor level.  Mark spent his playing years with the Wintersport Royals and ended with the Philadelphia Jr. Flyers Junior B in 1989.  Coach Montagna also played Varsity hockey for Archbishop Wood from 1986 to 1989.

Coach Montagna received his Advanced Level 4 Coaching Certification in 1995.

2011-12 Coach John Fields has been coaching for 25 years and has worked with teams from Mini Mite to Junior "B" and will enter his 2nd season with the Wildcats. Over the years John has coached many teams to districts, Silver Sticks Championships and has been to the US Nationals with the Philadelphia Little Flyers Junior "B" as an assistant.

Coach Fields has held positions with Tier 1, Tier 2 and High School Varsity teams which include the Philadelphia Little. Flyers, Valley Forge Minutemen, Old York Road, CEC, Germantown Academy and Pennsbury High School.

John G. Fields - Assistant Coach