David Carle is serving as head coach of the U.S. National Junior Team for the second time in 2025. 

Last year, Carle led the U.S. National Junior Team to gold in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship. Team USA concluded the tournament with a record of 6-1-0-0 (W-OTW-OTL-L), defeating Sweden in the gold-medal game.

Carle, who is in his seventh season as head coach of the University of Denver's men's ice hockey team in 2024-25, has led the Pioneers to two NCAA titles in 2022 and 2024 and four NCAA tournament appearances overall in his tenure. He has coached Denver to a 148-62-16 overall record in his six campaigns, which included a COVID-shortened season in 2019-20.

Prior to being named head coach, Carle served four-and-a-half seasons as an assistant coach with the Denver Pioneers (2014-18). He joined the program in 2014 following a season and a half as an assistant coach (2012-14) with the Green Bay Gamblers of the United States Hockey League (USHL).

As a player, Carle was recruited to play at Denver and spent four seasons (2008-12) as a graduate assistant coach after a medical diagnosis forced him to retire from his playing career. A 2008 NHL Draft-eligible prospect, Carle was drafted in the fourth round, 203rd overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning.