Dave Caruso currently serves as senior director of amateur hockey programming for the Columbus Blue Jackets and is serving as an assistant coach for the U.S. Youth Olympic Men’s Hockey Team for the first time in 2024. He previously was as an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-17 Select Team that placed second at the 2019 Five Nations Tournament. 

Prior to joining the Blue Jackets, Caruso served as manager of coaching education for USA Hockey and worked as a goaltender development coordinator and associate coach-in-chief for the Mid-American District.

The Georgia native also had stints as a goaltending coach for the Albany Devils of the AHL (2012-14), goaltending mentor coach for the International Ice Hockey Federation (2017-18), and goaltending consultant for the Ohio State University’s men’s ice hockey team (2017-19).

Caruso spent four seasons (2002-06) as a goaltender for the Ohio State University men’s ice hockey team and played six seasons of professional hockey in the AHL and ECHL.