Billy Hengen - Women's Hockey Coach - St. Cloud State University Athletics

Billy Hengen

Title:
Assistant Coach

Billy Hengen enters his first season as an assistant coach with St. Cloud State Women’s Hockey in 2023-24. Owning extensive experience in the coaching ranks with head coaching stints at Gentry Academy, the Minnesota Blades, Providence Academy and the Academy of Holy Angels, the 2006 St. Cloud State graduate provides a well-regarded offensive mind to the Huskies bench.

Hengen joins St. Cloud State after an incredible career shaping Gentry Academy into a power, helping his teams close the season as league champions in each of his final four seasons on the bench. His 2022-23 Gentry Girl’s Hockey program won the 2023 MSHSL Class AA State Championship while going 27-2, earning the state title in just their third season as a program. Hengen led the 2020-21 Gentry Boy’s Hockey program to the 2021 MSHSL Class A State Championship with an undefeated 19-0 mark just a year after guiding the Gentry 16U Boy’s program to a No. 1 national ranking in 2019-20 by going 52-5-1. His 2018-19 Gentry 15U’s went 64-2-3 and closed the season ranked No. 1.

Leading Team Minnesota at the prestigious Brick Invitational in Edmonton, California, Hengen added tremendous experience as the head coach of the AAA Minnesota Blades from 2012 to 2017. He first began his prep coaching career with five years at Holy Angels under head coach Greg Trebil following his collegiate playing career, climbing the ranks from assistant to associate head coach before earning the lead job in 2012-13. Hengen later served as the head coach at Providence Academy before joining Gentry.

No stranger to St. Cloud State Hockey, Billy Hengen graduated in 2006 following a four-year playing career under longtime Huskies head coaches Craig Dahl and Bob Motzko. The playmaking wing delivered back-to-back 20-plus point seasons as a sophomore and junior before piling up 32 points and skating to a plus-16 as a senior, closing his career with 79 points on 24 goals and 55 assists across 119 collegiate games. Hengen led the Huskies in assists and points per game over his final three seasons while earning WCHA All-Academic honors in 2005-06.

Hengen starred in the USHL with the Lincoln Stars for two seasons, winning back-to-back Anderson Cup Championships while going a combined 86-22 under offensive guru Steve Johnson. As a prep, Hengen graduated as the all-time leading goal scorer at the Academy of Holy Angels with 112 goals and 220 points while leading the program to its first Class AA State Tournament berth in 1999.