John Kyle

Assistant Coach, Hockey
E-mail: jokyle@nmu.edu
Telephone: 906-227-1189
Fax: 906-227-1274
At NMU Since 2003-04

John Kyle enters his 10th year as an assistant coach at Northern Michigan University under his brother, Walt Kyle. "Junior's"  primary responsibilities are off-ice operations and administration, and his on ice duties are working with the Wildcat defensemen.

Kyle earned four letters as a Wildcat defenseman from 1977-81, playing in 107 games and earning nine assists. He was part of NMU’s 1980 and ’81 squads that won the Central Collegiate Hockey Association’s regular and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Championship. The 1980 squad (34-5-1, 17-3-0 CCHA) finished as runner-up to the national crown and the ’81 team (27- 14-3, 18-4-0 CCHA) was fourth. John (born 7/23/57) and his older brother, Walt (6/11/56), were the first brother combination in Northern hockey history.

Kyle, a Waterloo, Iowa, native, was selected to the 1977 National Junior Team and was a member of the Austin Mavericks of the United States Hockey League (USHL) from 1975-77. He was the captain of the Mavericks during the 1976-77 season. Following his graduation from Northern in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in geography/earth science, he played professional hockey for two years in Dingolfing, Germany.

For the past 15 years, he has held various business and management positions in the Marquette area and has been involved with the Marquette Junior Hockey Association. Kyle’s hobbies include deer, turkey and partridge hunting. He also enjoys fishing and building projects.

Kyle and his wife, Jane, have two children, John Jr. and Ella.