BGSU hockey and head coach Dennis Williams has promoted assistant coach Curtis Carr to the associate head coach ahead of his seventh season with the Falcons in 2025-26’. The elevation was announced first on the team’s social media accounts.
Carr was hired as Bowling Green’s assistant coach for the 2019-20 season after eight seasons as an assistant and associate head coach at Merrimack and five with the Youngstown Phantoms of the USHL.
His playing career included four seasons with Kent State in the ACHA, coaching the Golden Flashes the three years after his playing career. His coaching focus throughout his career has been defense, Carr handling BGSU’s defenseman, general defense, and special teams (penalty kill, extra attacker defense).
Carr’s defensive focus helped the Falcons reach the CCHA semifinals for just the second time in Carr’s tenure. BGSU had the third fewest goals allowed and third-best margin in 2024-25 conference play, and its penalty kill ranked fourth among the most penalties per game.
The Georgetown, Ontario native loses much of his defensive core heading into the 2025-2026 season, losing three veteran defensemen and four great defensive forwards. Carr will have the ability to mold a younger Falcon team, three signed defensemen and seven forwards among the incoming first-year class.
Carr and the Falcons have not yet released their non-conference schedule, CCHA play beginning Oct. 24 in Sault Ste., Marie, Mich. against Lake Superior State.
