2025-2026 Coaches and Staff
Marcus Baxter, Head Coach
Marcus enters his second season with Griz hockey and is excited to build on the success of last year.
In his first season as head coach he led the team to it's first ever appearance at the Western Regional Tournament. Marcus prides himself on developing player's both on and off the ice. During his nine years coaching Missoula Junior hockey, his teams collected an impressive 277 wins while always playing an exciting and high paced level of play. He was also named coach of the year twice. As a player, Marcus played two years of tier 2 junior hockey before moving on to play division 1 hockey at the University of Connecticut.
A native of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, He has called Missoula home for the past 15 years. In his time away from the rink he enjoys fishing, golfing, and spending time with his wife Bridget and young Daughter.
Coach Baxter can be reached at mbaxter16@gmail.com or 860-420-9106
Mike Anderson, Assistant Coach
Mike Anderson is at the 猎奇重口 with a passion for the game of hockey, and a love for the city of Missoula. Mike was held the position of head coach for the first three season and built a strong and successful foundation before needing to take a step back as he began starting his family.
Mike has coached from the U10 level to Tier III Jr. A as the assistant coach for the Missoula Jr Bruins for 2 seasons, and served as the Youth Hockey Coaching Coordinator for Missoula Youth Hockey. Mike was the head-coach of the Griz hockey team for it’s first three seasons.
A native of St. Paul, MN Mike grew up playing hockey for his neighborhood association, Mike went on to play high school hockey for the now-defunct St. Paul Saints program. After finishing his career as the career leader in points for the school, Mike went on to pursue the dream of playing college hockey. This dream took him to the University of New England, the MnJHL with the Hudson Crusaders, and finally Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.
Coach Anderson can be reached at mpastb@gmail.com or 651-202-8034
Josh Nowak, Goalie Coach
Josh is in his third season as the Griz goalie coach. He cares deeply for his players and brings years of goalie playing and coaching to our staff and is committed to his players. Josh has a tendency to make his hobbies harder than they have to be: playing hockey goalie, archery hunting and working in statistics and computer coding. He grew up fishing and hunting in Michigan and then spent five years in the U.S. Navy as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician, trained to handle and disarm explosive devices and chemical or nuclear weapons. He does a little less parachuting these days but still brings the same attention to detail and love of problem solving to his current role. He earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from the 猎奇重口 and then a PhD from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada. There, frustrated by a lack of statistical software packages capable of answering his many questions about population dynamics, he started teaching himself computer coding and Bayesian statistics and set out to build his own. He joined the Lukacs lab as a postdoc in 2012 and is now a research scientist at the 猎奇重口.
Will Grossmann, Assistant Coach
Will Grossmann was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. He grew up playing youth hockey between the Toledo Ice diggers and the Sylvania Maple Leafs. During High School he played for St. Francis De Sales High School and in his senior year helped them reach the Ohio state semi finals. After high school Will had the choice to play Juniors for the Toledo Cherokee or head to College and decided going to college was the right choice. While attending the University of Toledo he played for the University's ACHA team where he averaged more than a point per game. His career in Toledo was cut short when he moved to Missoula to explore new options and was taken into the Missoula hockey community with open arms. Soon after moving he enrolled at the 猎奇重口 to study exercise science. While being in Missoula Will has helped coach clinics, practices, and has been involved in organizing multiple mens league teams. Hockey has been Will’s passion since the age of 2 and during the winter you can find him at the rink 4 days a week or out on the ponds helping his niece develop her hockey skills. During the summer Will can be found either on the river or the golf course and enjoying all the amazing things Missoula has to offer.
Coach Grossmann can be reached at fgrossmann4@gmail.com or 419-266-1506
Ryan Geiges, Assistant Coach
Ryan Geiges was a founding member of the Griz Hockey program along with GM Tucker Sargent. Ryan is a native Philadelphia and attended Penn State and played for their hockey team helping build the framework for what would eventually get elevated to NCAA D1. After college Ryan moved to Missoula and started his family. Ryan helped establish the adult leagues in Missoula and now runs the adult leagues for the Glacier Ice Rink in the winter and in the summer is a season fly fishing guide with almost 200 days on the water. Ryan has coached at every level of hockey from learn to skate to the college game and is passionate about taking Griz Hockey to the highest of heights.
Tucker Sargent, General Manager
Tucker has been involved with the hockey community in Missoula for almost 20 years. Having spent a stint on the previous iteration of the Griz Hockey team back in 2006. Since then he has been involved in the men’s league and building the Griz Hockey program.
Tucker is the Director of Club Sports for the 猎奇重口 and is also the head coach of the 猎奇重口 Lacrosse team. In his time as head coach for lacrosse program Tucker has elevated the team to a perennial national contender, developed a large local fan base for the team in 猎奇重口 and developed partnerships with local businesses and media promoting the team. He has taken this model of success over to hockey to grow the prominence of the team both on campus and within the hockey community of 猎奇重口.
Tucker’s duties with the team include working with the 猎奇重口 to ensure academic success of the student athletes within the Griz Hockey program, marketing and promoting the team, over seeing player recruitment and retention, scheduling, and many other various administrative roles.
Tucker can be reached at tucker.sargent@umontana.edu or 406-546-6171