Board Members
Executive Board
Tyler has served on the IYHL Board since 2023, currently holding the role of Vice President. He leads the Coaching Committee, chairs the Discipline Committee, and is actively involved in developing the league’s skill-development curriculum.
Tyler and his wife, Ashley, are deeply engaged in the IYHL community. Ashley is a familiar and invaluable presence at league events, and together they have three boys in the 2015, 2017, and 2020 birth years.
The family moved to Granger in 2017 for Tyler’s career as a Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon with South Bend Orthopaedics, a longtime supporter and sponsor of IYHL teams. Tyler also serves as a team physician for the University of Notre Dame and provides care for students and student-athletes at Culver Military Academy.
A lifelong multi-sport athlete, Tyler is a strong advocate for athletic diversity and regularly emphasizes its benefits to IYHL families. He was fortunate to play Division I hockey at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduating in 2006. Following college, he spent time playing professionally in both the AHL and CHL before pursuing medical school.
Extended Board Members
Board Members’ Code of Conduct
- Follow the policies, rules and regulations of USA Hockey and the IYHL to ensure that the association’s philosophy and objectives are enhanced.
- Support programs that train and educate players, coaches, parents, officials and volunteers.
- Promote and publicize your programs; seek out financial support when possible.
- Communicate with parents by holding parent/player orientation meetings as well as by being available to answer questions and address problems throughout the season.
- Work to provide programs that encompass fairness to the participants and promote fair play and sportsmanship.
- Recruit volunteers, including coaches, who demonstrate qualities conducive to being role models to the youth in our sport.
- Encourage coaches and officials to attend USA Hockey clinics and advise your board members of the necessity for their training sessions.
- Make every possible attempt to provide everyone, at all skill levels, with a place to play.
- Read and be familiar with the contents of the USA Hockey Annual Guide and USA Hockey’s official playing rules.
- Develop other administrators to advance to positions in your association, perhaps even your own.