GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Two-time national champion former University of North Dakota hockey standout Jason Ulmer will serve as a volunteer assistant coach for the coming 2019-20 season. 

Ulmer is launching his coaching career following a lengthy 16-year professional hockey playing career. Following his retirement in 2016, he served as a student manager with the UND hockey team while pursuing his Master's degree in Kinesiology and spent last year as a performance specialist at Altru Sports Advantage powered by EXOS. He was recently named the Director of the Hockey Academy at Ralph Engelstad Arena. 

Ulmer won national titles in both 1997 and 2000, playing in 146 career games with 33 goals and 69 assists. He was an All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) honoree as a senior before moving on to play both in North America and Europe, playing nearly 900 career games and amassing over 700 career points (220 goals, 487 assists). 

The Wilcox, Sask., native joins a coaching staff that is made up of all UND alums (head coach Brad Berry, associate head coach Dane Jackson and assistant coach Karl Goehring). 

Ulmer and his wife, Erin, a former volleyball player at UND, have three children: Tyson, Caden, and Kyla.