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Associate Head Coach Mike Lysyj

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Birthday: November 30, 1988

Hometown: Hillsborough, NJ

Alma Mater: SUNY Cortland

 

The Iowa Heartlanders named Mike Lysyj (pronounced: LEE-see) Associate Head Coach in July 2025. 

Lysyj, 36, joined the Heartlanders after serving as an assistant coach and associate head coach of the USHL’s Cedar Rapids RoughRiders from 2022-25. Lysyj earned a promotion to RoughRiders Associate Head Coach in 2024-25 and helped the team reach the qualifying round of the USHL’s Clark Cup Playoffs. 

 

The Hillsborough, NJ native has more than a decade of coaching experience as an assistant and head coach in the ECHL, NCAA, NCAA DIII, USHL, WHL and NAHL. He previously worked with Iowa Heartlanders Head Coach/GM Chuck Weber as a volunteer assistant coach with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2017-18 when Weber was assistant coach of the Engineers. 

 

 

 

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Lysyj resume notables

  • While with the USHL RoughRiders, Lysyj guided the team to the Clark Cup Playoffs twice. He was Head Coach of NAHL Corpus Christi in 2021-22 and previously served as assistant coach of USHL Des Moines (2020-21) and assistant coach of WHL Everett (2019-20). In Everett, the team compiled a 46-13-3-1 record. 
  • Lysyj played NCAA DIII hockey at SUNY Cortland. Following his NCAA playing career, he skated with ECHL Orlando for six games in 2012-13 and then in the SPHL (Peoria/Mississippi) in 2013-14.