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Bill Kronschnabel Commissioner  Bill Kronschnabel has been the commissioner of the
Northern Collegiate Hockey Association since April 2002. He also served as the
NCHA Supervisor of Officials from 1998 to 2005.Kronschnabel had been a collegiate hockey official for over 25 years. During his career, he has worked the NCHA and MIAC Championships and the NCAA Division III Tournament. Kronschnabel is the chair of the NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Committee. He is also the head rules clinician for the Minnesota State High School League and a member of the National Federation Ice Hockey Rules Committee. He played college hockey at St. Mary’s, Minn., University from 1967-71. He resides in St. Paul and is a partner in the law firm of Kampmeyer, Kronschnabel, Bader & Daly. |
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Ed Zepeda Ed Zepeda began as the NCHA Supervisor of Officals during the 2005-06 season. Duties of the supervisor of officials include scheduling, evaluating and mentoring league officials. Zepeda has been officiating at the collegiate level for more than 16 years, predominately in the NCHA and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC). Zepeda has officiated in seven NCAA Division III tournament and three NCAA Division III national championship games. Zepeda has also served as an official in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and three years in the West Professional Hockey League (now the Central Hockey League). Zepeda has been the Director of Business Development for Thomson Prometric in St. Paul, Minn., since 2000. He resides in Woodbury with his wife, Robin, and children, Tyler, Tayler, and Teona.
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Brian Monahan Brian Monahan is in his first year as sports information director for the NCHA, having previously worked in the Lake Forest College sports information department. Monahan is in charge of the league web site, all media relations and promotion, as well as league statistics, player of the week selection, polls and all-conference awards. Monahan also works as a field producer for ESPN on Monday Night Football, managing sideline reports and overseeing logistics during the NFL season. He previously was a sports producer at KSTP-TV in St. Paul (2003-05) and an operations producer for the Minesota Twins regional sports network Victory Sports (2002). In 2001 he worked as play-by-play announcer and traveling secretary with the Mankato Moondogs of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. After participating in hockey briefly as a goaltender at Lake Forest, Monahan became known as "The Voice of the Foresters," a nickname derived from his frequent public address announcing and radio play-by-play. Hockey has always been a big part of Monahan's life, participating in many capacities. Growing up in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, he attended St. Thomas Academy and played four years of hockey - which included a trip to the 1999 state tournament. Monahan currently works as an on-ice official for the Minnesota State High School League and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. |
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