2 former St. Cloud residents named to Team USA’s World Junior Championship staff

COLORADO SPRINGS — Two former St. Cloud residents are among the six assistant coaches named for the 2026 U.S. National Junior Team on Wednesday, June 25.

The six coaches are Greg Brown (Scituate, Mass./Boston College), Steve Miller (Sun Prairie, Wis./University of Minnesota) and Garrett Raboin (Detroit Lakes/Augustana University) have been named assistant coaches, David Lassonde (Durham, N.H./USA Hockey) was named goaltending coach and Jacob LeRoy (Dublin, Ohio/University of Minnesota) and Travis Winter (St. Cloud/Bemidji State University) were named video coaches.

The group will work with former St. Cloud State head coach Bob Motzko (Austin/University of Minnesota) who was previously named head coach of the 2026 U.S. National Junior Team.

The U.S. enters the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship, which will be played from Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The Americans have won the last two gold medals in the tournament. Ticket information is available

here.

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Raboin will enter his third season as the head men’s ice hockey coach at Augustana University in 2025-26. He will serve as an assistant coach of the U.S. National Junior Team for the third straight year.

Prior to arriving at Augustana, Raboin spent four seasons as an assistant men’s ice hockey coach at the University of Minnesota, highlighted by helping the Gophers to the NCAA Frozen Four in 2023. During his time with at Minnesota, the Gophers won the Big Ten championship in 2022, and made NCAA Tournament appearances (2021, 2022, 2023).

Prior to joining the Gophers, Raboin spent six seasons as an assistant men’s ice hockey coach at his alma mater, St. Cloud State University. He helped guide the Huskies to five trips to the NCAA tournament, including a spot in the 2013 Frozen Four, along with three NCHC regular-season championships.

As a player, Raboin was a two-time All-WCHA selection and led St. Cloud State to three NCAA Tournament berths. He went on to play professionally in Europe for two seasons.

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Winter, associate head coach of the Bemidji State University men’s ice hockey team,

is serving on the staff of the U.S. National Junior Team for the first time.

The St. Cloud native has been part of the Beavers coaching staff for the last 11 seasons, including the first eight as assistant coach and the last three as associate head coach.

Previous to his time at BSU, he was the head coach and director of hockey operations for the Aberdeen Wings of the NAHL for one season (2013-14). Prior to that, he spent parts of four seasons (2009-13) serving as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the USHL’s Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.

Winter was also a volunteer coach for the Saint Johns University men’s ice hockey program in 2009 and served on the coaching staff of the USA Hockey Selection 15 National Camp in 2010.

As player, Winter was a four-year letterwinner (2005-09) for Bemidji State where as a senior he served as captain and helped the Beavers to the program’s first Frozen Four appearance in 2009.