Troy Ward is serving on the player personnel staff for the U.S. Under-18 Select Team for the first time in 2023.

Ward, who brings nearly 40 years of coaching experience, is set to start his first season as the associate head coach at Minnesota State University this year, having spent the 2022-23 season with the USHL’s Sioux City Musketeers.

Before his time in Sioux City, Ward spent three years with the Vancouver Canucks (2019-22) as an amateur scout after two as the head coach of the Steinbach Black Wings Linz in Austria (2017-19).

Additionally, the Saint Paul, Minnesota, native, spent time behind the bench as both a head and assistant coach around the NHL, AHL, NCAA, USHL, IHL, WHL and ECHL, including with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Houston Aeros, and University of Wisconsin.