Three years after closing out a rewarding playing career at UMD, Adam Krause returned to the Bulldog men's hockey program on May 4, 2018 when he was appointed as an assistant coach. Eleven months later, he was behind the winning bench at the NCAA Frozen Four national championship.
Not a bad way to make your coaching debut.
Krause was an assistant coach until 2022, when he was named UMD's associate head coach. The 2025-26 season will mark Krause's eighth behind the bench of his alma mater. As a program, UMD has gone 129-108-19 and clinched two NCHC Frozen Faceoff titles in both 2019 and 2022 with Krause. With three NCAA Tournament berths over Krause's tenure (2019, 2021, 2022), the Bulldogs also won the NCAA title in 2019.
Krause, a native of Hermantown, Minn., was a staple for four seasons (2011-15) with the Bulldogs and spent both his junior and senior seasons serving as a team captain. He skated in 133 career games at UMD and had 37 points (16 goals and 21 assists) to show for it). Krause saved some of his best hockey for last as during his final UMD go-around he matched or eclipsed personal highs for goals (seven), assists (10) and points (17) despite missing a month of the regular season with a wrist injury. In 2014-15, he was the recipient of the E.L. "Duce" Rasmussen Award as the UMD's top male scholar-athlete in addition to being nominee for a pair of prestigious national honors -- the Hockey Humanitarian Award and the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award -- as well as finalist for UMD's Shjon Podein Community Service Award (for the second year in a row). In regards to Bulldog hockey awards, Krause was a two-time winner of both the Goldie Wolfe Award (UMD's Most Inspirational Player) and the Pat Francisco Award (Outstanding Community Service).
Shortly after leading the Bulldogs to the NCAA Northeast Regional finals, Krause joined the Wheeling Nailers for the remainder of the 2014-15 East Coast Hockey League season and for the following two seasons did time with both the Nailers and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League. This past winter, he took shifts in 46 games with the AHL's Rochester Americans, generating three goals and five assists along the way.
A two-time member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference's Scholar-Athlete Team, Krause graduated from UMD in 2015 with a Bachelor's degree in finance. He and his wife, Lexi, and their two children make their home in Duluth.
