Matthew Greason enters his 15th season as the Trinity College Head Men’s Ice Hockey Coach for the 2025-26 season. Greason holds a career record of 218-81-21 behind the bench for the Bantams.
Last season, Greason helmed the Bantams to a 16-7-2 record with a 12-4-2 record in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). Trinity earned their 24th consecutive berth in the NESCAC Men’s Ice Hockey Championship Tournament as the second-overall seed. The Bantams suffered a 1-0 defeat to Middlebury College in the Quarterfinals.
In 2023-24, Greason guided the Bantams to a 25-4-1 record, setting a new program record for wins in a season, besting the mark the 24-1 record set in 1986-87. Trinity registered a 16-1-1 mark in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), their best conference record since 2014-15. Trinity defeated Tufts, 4-0, in the NESCAC Championship game to claim their seventh conference crown and fifth under Greason’s watch. The Bantam earned a berth into the NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship Tournament, defeating Elmira (2-0) and Adrian (2-1) to reach the National Championship Game for the third time since Greason took over the program in 2010. After falling to Hobart, 2-0, in the title game, Greason was recognized as the New England Hockey Writers Association DII-DIII Coach of the Year and NESCAC Coach of the Year for the second time in his career.
In 2021-22, Trinity logged a 17-8-1 record with a 12-5-1 mark in the NESCAC and rolled to their sixth NESCAC Championship, downing Conn College (5-0), Williams College (4-0), and Colby College (4-1) in title game. Trinity fell to Babson College, 3-0, in the NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship Tournament First Round.
Greason's squad won its fifth league title in 2018-19 with a 19-4-5 overall record, and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship Tournament, before closing the year with a 2-1 loss to New England in the First Round.
In 2016-17, Trinity won the NESCAC crown and finished at 21-7-3. The Bantams earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship Tournament, making a run to the 2017 NCAA Finals with victories over Plattsburgh State (4-1), Endicott (2-1 in OT) and St. Norbert (3-1) before falling in the championship, 4-1, to Norwich University. The Bantams closed that year as the No. 2-ranked team in both national polls. Trinity was 21-5 overall in 2015-16, finished atop the NESCAC Standings at 15-3, and hosted and won its third league title. Trinity earned an opening-round bye in the NCAA Tournament, but fell to Mass.-Boston, 4-0.
Greason helmed the Bantams to the program’s lone National Championship during the 2014-15 season, registering a 25-3-1 record, capped by a 5-2 victory over Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship game. Trinity earned an at-large bid to the tournament field and defeated Nichols (4-2), Plattsburgh State (5-1) and Adrian (5-3) to reach the Championship game for the first time in program history. Trinity ended the season ranked No. 1 in both the United States College Hockey Online (USCHO.com) poll and the D3Hockey.com Poll, a program first, and Greason was named the USCHO.com National Division III Coach of the Year. Greason was chosen as the NESCAC Coach of the Year in 2012-13 when Trinity went 15-7-3 and reached the league semifinals.
Prior to Trinity, Greason was an assistant coach at Kingswood-Oxford School and Kent School for five years. He also served on the staff for the Atlantic District of USA hockey, coaching the best players from the New Jersey and Philadelphia area, and has been a guest lecturer at the level 3 and 4 coaching education program for USA hockey. With the U.S. National Team Development program, Greason coached the defense for the U-17 and U-18 squads, served as head coach at the NTDP top-40 tryout camp, and was an assistant for Team USA in the Ivan Hlinka Tournament in the Czech Republic which features U-18 National Teams from around the world. He was an assistant coach in 2007-08 and 2008-09, helping the Bantams to a 32-20-2 record that included the program's second NESCAC title and its third appearance in the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament.
Greason coached the Trinity men's golf team for 10 seasons guiding the Bantam linksmen to a top-four finish in the NESCAC each year, including in 2021 when the squad placed second in the league and went on to place 25th in the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament. In the spring of 2019, the Bantams won the league title for the third time, traveled to Kentucky for the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championship Tournament, made the cut after the second day for the first time in program history, and finished 10th overall in the four-day NCAA event. As a result, Greason was honored as the 2019 NESCAC Coach of the Year. The Bantams won the 2018 NESCAC Championship and earned their first NCAA tournament bid since 2010 and captured the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III New England title in the fall of 2014.
As a student-athlete at Trinity, Greason served as captain of the Bantams Ice Hockey and Golf squads. On the ice, Greason earned Division II/III All-New England honors and was a two-time NESCAC All-Conference selection, including First Team honors as a senior. On the links, Greason graced the All-New England Division III team and was a NESCAC All-Conference selection. An associate professor in the Trinity athletic department, Greason resides with his wife, Mary, their sons, Patrick and Connor, and their daughter, Claire, in Wethersfield, Conn.
