Canisius College - Azuwur Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Dr. David B. Dietz, a Classics professor in his tenth year at Canisius, is the Canisius club hockey coach. He is also the AZUWUR Coach of the Year. Dr. Dietz emerged from a host of other candidates for the honor, including,' John McCarthy, who guided the basketball team to a stronger showing than the experts deemed possible: Al Stumpf, who led the wom- en's gymnastics team to a second straight State title,' Jim Decker, who piloted the swim Griffs to the first winning record in their seven year historyf and Bill Brooks, who coached the first varsity football unit at Canisius in a quarter of a century. Call me a cook, not a coach, protested Dr. David Dietz with an amiable smile after his designation as AZUWUR Coach of the Year. I make sure all the people come together who want to play, then mix up a recipe so that everybody is happy. As far as the term coach, that's really not used properly. Because, techni- cally, I am the faculty advisor of a club on campus. 'Coach' is only an analagous term for my position with the hockey club. But cook or coach, Doc Dietz is the fellow who stands behind the bench at Canisius hockey games calling the shots: sending out lines, pulling goaltenders, and exhorting his forces. Still, if he insists on the culinary tag, he might as well have been the author of the l Hate To Cook Book because he claims: In short, I'm a reluctant coach. For years I've been asking around to see if there's anyone else on campus with a hockey background, either to be an assistant or to take over all together. The burdensome part is not the coaching. Only about Il3 of the time I spend on club hockey is on the ice. 206 It's the scheduling, the book balancing, the administrative chores which become more and more burdensome since I do have a full teaching load. The time has been the biggest problem. But when there's a vacuum of coaching people and a job to do then I feel I have to do the best job I can. I honestly think it's important because we have a lot of dedicated kids who really vvant to play. I've learned as I've gone along. If he calls it learning, then he can add another doctorate to his Classics degree. Canisius won its second straight Finger Lakes Collegiate Hockey League championship under his tutelage this year. This is only the third year that the Golden Ice Griffins have been a part of the FLCHL, one of the state's more established leagues. But it wasn't as easy this time around. This was a dangerous year because we had a set team, Doc Dietz explains. We had an easy time last year when we swept through the league undefeated. This season we had all kinds of complacency as a result. For awhile there we hit the skids and lost a few in a row, but we came out the better for it. When you start losing two things can happen: you can either fall apart or pull together. Fortunately, it worked out in our case. Canisius has not lost any Little Three matches under Doc Dietz. Those games do have a special little edge to them, he admits. But really, Bona and Niagara haven't had real good s ss ii af