Bruce Wolanin has coached at Yale for eight seasons and helped the men's hockey team to the 1998 ECACHL Championship. Wolanin `91 left the Bulldogs after the championship season to complete a masters in exercise physiology at the University of Connecticut, where he also served as a graduate assistant coach for two seasons. He helped the Huskies win the 2000 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship before returning to Yale in the fall of 2000. The former Yale defenseman (1987-91), who won the David C. Noyes III Award his senior year and then played for the ECHL Dayton Bombers the following winter, won four letters for head coach Tim Taylor. He then took a teaching and coaching (hockey and lacrosse) job at the Pomfret (CT) School for three years. Wolanin, a Winnipeg native, returned to New Haven in 1995 and took over the Bulldog defensemen and the challenging task of recruiting Western Canada. Wolanin and his wife, Monique, and sons, Blake and Ian, live in Pomfret.