Following Miami’s largest single-season winning percentage spike in program history, Anthony Noreen is being rewarded.
Miami extended the head coach’s contract by two years, locking him up through 2031-32. His original six-year, $2 million deal ran through 2029-30.
“I am excited to extend Coach Noreen an additional two years via this new contract,” RedHawks athletic director David Sayler said in a press release. “The program enjoyed a big turnaround in his second season leading the team, which also included getting ranked and winning a mid-season tournament championship. The future is bright for Miami hockey with Coach Noreen and his talented coaching staff continuing our push to get back into the NCAA Tournament.”
After Miami finished 3-28-3 in 2024-25 — the first season of Noreen’s contract — the RedHawks ended last season 18-16-2, their first winning campaign since 2014-15.
That’s a program-best .398 winning percentage jump. Miami’s 15-win improvement is its second-biggest leap ever only to its 1996-97 team, which won 27 games after recording just 10 victories a year prior.
Both their winning percentage and raw win total increases were easily tops in all of Division I, and Noreen was a finalist for NCHC Coach of the Year.
MU also won the Friendship Four in Belfast, Northern Ireland, its first tournament title of any kind in 11 years.
And even more talent is headed to Oxford next season. Two of the USHL’s top five scorers — Layne Loomer and Ryan Seelinger — are committed to Miami, as well as WHL projected second- or third-round draftee Tim Runtso.
All are expected to join the RedHawks this fall.
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