{"id":31299,"date":"2010-04-21T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2010\/04\/21\/appert-gets-2year-extension-at-rensselaer\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:57:59","slug":"appert-gets-2year-extension-at-rensselaer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2010\/04\/21\/appert-gets-2year-extension-at-rensselaer\/","title":{"rendered":"Appert Gets 2-Year Extension at Rensselaer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rensselaer has given coach Seth Appert a two-year contract extension, the school announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Appert’s deal now runs through the 2013-14 season.<\/p>\n
“He has done an excellent job turning our program around, and he has done it the right way,” Rensselaer athletic director Jim Knowlton said in a statement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The team continues to make strides on the ice, and the student-athletes are exceptional ambassadors for Rensselaer off the ice. Seth’s passion and dedication have made a difference and we are happy to see him continue his stay at RPI.”<\/p>\n
Appert, also in the second year of a three-year term as the president of the American Hockey Coaches Association, had his first winning season in his fourth year with the Engineers.<\/p>\n
RPI was 18-17-4 this season behind first-team All-American Chase Polacek and ECAC Hockey rookie of the year Jerry D’Amigo.<\/p>\n
“The work we have put in both on and off the ice throughout the last four years has laid a strong foundation to build on in pursuit of another championship season at RPI,” Appert said in a statement. “I look forward to meeting this challenge while continuing to recruit, develop and graduate student-athletes that we are all proud to call Engineers.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rensselaer has given coach Seth Appert a two-year contract extension, the school announced Wednesday. Appert’s deal now runs through the 2013-14 season. “He has done an excellent job turning our program around, and he has done it the right way,” Rensselaer athletic director Jim Knowlton said in a statement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The team continues to make strides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n