Coaching Staff
Stephen Carroll
Assistant Coach
Steve Carroll is in his 22nd season as an assistant coach with the Gusties in the 2023-24 season. His responsibilities include helping recruit student-athletes and developing Gustavus goalies.
Carroll has more than a quarter century of goalie coaching experience and is regarded as one of the top goalie instructors in the Midwest. Steve also serves as goalie coach-in-chief for USA Hockey’s Minnesota District. He also runs his own goalie school and each year coaches hundreds of boys and girls of all skill levels.
An Edina, Minn. native, Carroll was a two-time All-America goalie for Minnesota State University, Mankato. He led the Mavericks to the 1980 NCAA Division II National Championship, where he was named the tournament's MVP.
He was a top-10 finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, presented annually to the best player in men's college hockey. Carroll was named MSU's Male Athlete of the Century and has been inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame.
In 2005, he was inducted into the Edina High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Patrick Carroll
Assistant Coach
Pat Carroll is in his ninth season as an assistant coach for the Gustavus Adolphus College women’s hockey team in 2023-24. The brother of head coach Mike Carroll and fellow assistant coach Steve, Pat brings a wealth of playing and coaching experience with him to the Gustie bench.
A 1985 graduate of Minnesota State University-Mankato, Carroll holds the MSU school record for single-season points (88) and consecutive games with at least one point (25), and ranks second all-time in career goals and points (123 G, 224 P). The Edina native earned All-American honors in both the 1983 and 1984 seasons and was named the team MVP in 1985. Carroll was later inducted into the Maverick Hall of Fame in 2001 and was also inducted into the Edina High School Hall of Fame in 2008.
Pat and his wife, Lynn, live in Eagan and have two grown children, Mollie and John.
Kirstin Peterson
Assistant Coach
A standout defender for the Gusties from 2007-11, Kirstin Peterson returned to the Gustavus women's hockey coaching staff in 2018-19 after serving as an assistant coach for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons.
During her tenure as a player, the Golden Gusties went 91-16-9 overall and 62-5-5 in the MIAC, winning four MIAC championships and taking home four MIAC playoff titles. She recorded a total of 16 goals and 59 assists for 75 points, ranking 28th overall and fourth among defensemen in career points at Gustavus. Peterson, a four-time All-MIAC performer and three-time All-American (2009, 2010, and 2011), broke the program’s “Iron Woman” award in 2011, setting a new games-played mark by skating in all 116 contests over her career.
As an assistant coach in 2011-12, Peterson helped the Gusties post a 24-4-2 overall record and 16-1-1 mark in the MIAC, winning the conference championship and taking fourth in the NCAA Championships. In the 2012-13 season, the Gusties went 27-2-1 overall and a perfect 18-0 in the league, winning another conference title and once again taking fourth in the national tournament. Peterson helped coach the Gusties to both the MIAC regular season and playoff titles during the 2019-20 and 2021-22 seasons.
Andrea Peterson
Assistant Coach
Andrea Peterson, a 2007 Gustavus graduate, returned to the Gustie coaching staff in 2022 after previously serving as a high school girls' hockey coach. Peterson was an assistant coach at Gustavus from 2007-11 before moving on to New Prague Area Schools where she was a physical education teacher and head girls' hockey coach from 2012-18. Since 2015, Peterson has taught at Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools and was an assistant girls' hockey coach at Prior Lake from 2019-22.
One of the greatest Division III women’s hockey players of all time, Peterson is in a league of her own when looking at the rich history of the Gustavus women’s hockey program. Peterson is the only player in the history of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) to be selected Player of the Year all four seasons. Recognized as the most competitive skater on the ice whenever she played, Peterson earned All-America honors all four years and finished her collegiate career as the 2006-07 Laura Hurd Award winner (Division III Player of the Year) and the Gustavus Female Athlete of the Year.
Peterson led the nation in scoring as a defender during her freshman and senior seasons and holds the Division III record for most career points scored by a defender. Her 185 career points are the most in program history and rank third all-time among all Division III women’s hockey players. Peterson also holds the program record with 107 career assists, ranking second in Division III history, while her 78 career goals rank second at Gustavus.
Impressive hands paired with phenomenal shooting ability allowed Peterson to score 23 power play goals, which ranks fourth in Division III history. Playing her best in big moments, Peterson led the Gusties to three MIAC regular season championships, four MIAC playoff championships, and four NCAA tournament appearances, highlighted by an NCAA third-place finish in 2005. During her four seasons, Peterson and the Gusties accumulated an overall record of 94-18-3 and went 67-4-1 in the MIAC.
