Josh Holmstrom - Men's Ice Hockey Coach - Air Force Academy Athletics

Josh Holmstrom

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
joshua.holmstrom.ctr@afacademy.af.edu

Josh Holmstrom enters his fourth season with the Air Force hockey team. The Colorado Springs native was named the director of hockey operations in the summer of 2022 and enters his third season as assistant coach.

Holmstrom comes to the Academy after serving as the head coach of the Walpole Express of the Eastern Hockey League. A 2014 graduate of UMass-Lowell, Holmstrom was the team captain his senior year and played in 154 career games as a forward and had 74 career points. He helped lead the RiverHawks to two Hockey East championships and to the 2013 NCAA Frozen Four.

Holmstrom played six seasons of professional hockey, spending time in both the ECHL and the AHL. He spent the 2014-15 season with the Toledo Walleye (ECHL) and the 2015-16 season with the Missouri Mavericks (ECHL). Holmstrom played 66 games with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (AHL) in 2016-17 and 28 games in 2017-18. In his final professional season, he played 70 games with the Worcester Railers (ECHL) and had 30 points.