Boston University

Len Quesnelle, a 29-year NCAA coaching veteran and formerly an amateur scout for the Detroit Red Wings, enters his fifth season as an assistant coach for the Boston University men’s ice hockey team.
 
Quesnelle, who was a standout defenseman at Princeton and later served as head coach of the Tigers, spent four years (2013-17) with the Red Wings after a nine-season stint as an assistant coach at Massachusetts. 
 
In all, Quesnelle spent 20 years at Princeton as a student-athlete and a coach. The Ontario native arrived on campus in 1984 and went on to earn All-Ivy honors as a senior in 1987-88, when he helped the team reach the NCAA Tournament and achieve a ranking as high as sixth in the national polls.
 
Following graduation, he joined Princeton’s coaching staff as an assistant and remained in that role for 12 years before becoming the program’s 14th head coach in 2000. His final nine seasons as an assistant were under head coach Don Cahoon, a standout on BU’s first two national championship teams in 1971 and 1972.
 
At the helm, Quesnelle became the first coach in Princeton history to lead the Tigers to consecutive seasons of .500-or-better records in ECAC play.
 
Quesnelle moved to Hockey East in 2004 when he reunited with Cahoon as an assistant coach at UMass. In Amherst, Quesnelle was key in the recruitment and development of five of the program’s top 10 all-time scorers and led the Minutemen to their first NCAA Tournament appearance, as the 2006-07 team came within one game of reaching the Frozen Four.
 
As an amateur scout with the Red Wings, Quesnelle’s primary scouting area and responsibility was high school hockey, junior hockey, and NCAA hockey throughout the United States.
 
A native of Bramalea, Ontario, Quesnelle appeared in 106 games at Princeton and earned All-Ivy League honors as well as the Class of 1941 Championship Award for winning spirit.
 
Quesnelle and his wife, Jennifer, have two daughters, Rémi and Georgia.