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Alex Kaluzny enters his second season as lead assistant of the Buffalo State men's hockey team in the 2022-23 season after serving in the same role during the 2021-22 season.
Kaluzny came to Buffalo State from Trine University where he served as a coach since 2018. He was the ACHA D2 head coach in 2020-21, leading the Thunder to the national tournament. In the 2019-20 season, he was the head coach for the ACHA D3 program and also served as the ACHA D2 assistant coach, a position he also held during the 2018-19 season when the Thunder finished the regular season 21-9, before sweeping their way through regionals to earn their second trip to the national tournament.
Kaluzny previously served a stint as a graduate assistant for the University of Jamestown's ACHA D1 men's hockey team. During his lone season with the Jimmies, Kaluzny helped the team reach its first appearance in the ACHA National Championship Tournament and earned his master's degree in leadership (business).
Before his time at the University of Jamestown, Kaluzny served as a player development assistant at NCAA Division I Canisius College. During his time there, the team picked up its first regular-season Atlantic Hockey Conference championship.
Kaluzny attended the State University of New York at Fredonia where he graduated with a degree in journalism and athletic coaching. During his undergraduate years, he was an integral part of coaching the back-to-back state champion Dunkirk-Fredonia high school hockey program.
