Matt Grzelak

This is Matt Grzelak’s fourth season as an assistant coach with the Louisville Cardinals hockey team. Matt has been coaching goaltenders for eight years starting in Chicago with the Joliet Jaguars AA program. Along with the Jaguar program, Matt coordinated private lessons for goalies around the city ranging from the bronze level St. Jude Knights to the U18 Chicago Mission. Following two years of coaching in Chicago, Matt permanently moved to Louisville to finish his college degree and continue coaching with the Ice Cardinal program in Louisville for all ages. In 2015, Grzelak became a full time assistant coach at St. Xavier High School. Matt was assistant coach for three seasons for St. Xavier along with private lessons for the youth program and for high school league goaltenders in the state. At the start of the 2018 calendar year Matt became the goalie coach for the University of Louisville Club hockey team and finished his final season coaching with the St. Xavier High School.