Board & Staff

President: Andy McNerney

Andy grew up in Winnetka and played youth hockey for the Warriors before his family moved to Edina, Minnesota. A successful high school hockey career started with an appearance in the famed Minnesota High School Hockey Tournament and finished at The Taft School in Connecticut. Andy played 4 years of varsity hockey at Bowdoin College, which included a national tournament appearance his senior year. He has coached 3 out of his 4 kids (house and travel) at Winnetka over the past 6 years.  

Vice President, Hockey Operations: Brent Kozel

Vice President, Hockey Operations: Brent Kozel

Brent began playing hockey for the Barrington Wings before moving to the Chicago Young Americans and then Team Illinois. Brent finished his high school career at The Taft School and then played collegiately at Williams College. Brent lives in Winnetka with his wife, Courtney, and their three young children. He has enjoyed coaching his kids and their friends at the Mite and Minor Mite level for the past four seasons and serving on the club’s board for the past three years. This season he will be coaching his son at the Minor Mite level and his two daughters at the Mite level. 

Vice President, Off-Ice Operations: Steve George

Steve never graduated from pond hockey in his native Massachusetts but made up for it by introducing his three kids to skating and hockey at a young age. After attending Northwestern University, he left the North Shore to embark on a corporate marketing career, learning skills along the way that have proven useful in helping to run a youth hockey club.

After 16 years on the East Coast, Steve moved back to the Chicago area in 2016 and settled in Winnetka with his wife Lisa and the rest of the family. He has two boys that have played at every level of the Warrior program.

Treasurer: Jason Schroeder

Jason grew up in Antigo, Wisconsin where he was a goalie on the varsity hockey team (made the state tournament his senior year). He was a Wisconsin Mr. Hockey finalist, conference player of the year and played U16 and U18 Team Wisconsin AAA. Jason graduated from University of Wisconsin Madison and currently lives in Winnetka with his wife and four children, the oldest of whom is a Squirt in the Winnetka Hockey program.  

Secretary: Joanne Wallace

Joanne grew up in Winnetka and attended New Trier High School where she played basketball and softball. Her first introduction to the hockey world came in college, when she met her husband Ben, a former Cornell hockey player. All three of Joanne’s children now play hockey, with two of them still in the Warriors program. Joanne recently retired from the practice of law to focus full-time on shuttling her kids to and from hockey, basketball, soccer, football, baseball and softball practices and games. Joanne lives in Winnetka with her husband and three kids.

Travel Director: Steve Moltz

Steve grew up in Glenview and Wilmette and played youth hockey for Wilmette. He attended New Trier High School where he played hockey for three years. He continues to have lifelong friendships with his New Trier hockey teammates and is a strong believer in community-based hockey. Steve lives in Glencoe with his wife and two kids who are both in the Winnetka Warriors program and has coached both kids in the minor mite level the past four seasons.

Uniform Coordinator: Ali Linehan

Ali grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where she played tennis and lacrosse and enjoyed attending Columbus Chill hockey games. After attending Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Ali moved to Chicago, met her husband, Todd, also a Miami grad, and worked in advertising sales for nearly twenty years. It was only a matter of time before she dedicated her life to hockey after having three boys in each of the years that the Blackhawks won a Stanley Cup! Ali currently resides - and plays a lot of shinny - in Winnetka with Todd and their three boys, all of whom are proud members of the Warrior family.

Team Manager/Volunteer Coordinator: Betsy Harootyan

Betsy grew up in Winnetka and is the only member of her immediate family to not play hockey, thus she took on the role as the Team Manager Coordinator. She has a son playing for the North Shore Hockey Club, another son playing hockey for New Trier, and her husband, Todd, who coached for many years at the house level, plays as a goalie for/against many other Warrior dads. Betsy and her family live in Northfield, and she is a 4th generation member of the family-owned (and WHC team sponsor) Bratschi Plumbing, located in Winnetka.

North Shore Ice Arena Liaison: Sean Lutz

Sean grew up in Northbrook where he played youth and high school hockey for the Northbrook Bluehawks Hockey Club. As a freshman and sophomore, they appeared in the high school state championship as a JV and played at the Chicago Stadium. He currently lives in Winnetka with his wife Stephanie and two boys Graham and Hunter. Both of his sons play for the Winnetka Hockey club. Sean has coached both of his sons while at the Winnetka Hockey Club.

Strategy & Operations: Marty Hogan

Marty grew up in Windsor, Ontario where he played AAA and Junior hockey. His career brought him to Chicago where he met his wife Whitney, a Winnetka native. Marty has been a scout in the OHL for fifteen seasons, currently with the Ottawa 67's, and works on the coaching staff with the Republic of Estonia at their IIHF events. Marty and Whitney live in Winnetka with their three kids. He has coached his oldest two in minor mites the last two seasons and looks forward to getting their youngest on the ice soon.

Goalie Liaison: Andrew Eaton

Andrew grew up in Larchmont, NY playing youth hockey for the Mamaroneck Tigers. He went on to play three years of varsity hockey at The Canterbury School in New Milford, CT and collegiately at Hobart College in Geneva, NY. Andrew lives in Northfield with his wife, Jen, and their three kids. He has enjoyed coaching his son from minor mites to mites for the past three seasons and looks forward to coaching his youngest daughter in minor mites this season.

Registrar: Kathy Estabrooke

As a 48 year resident of Northfield my family and I have been involved with the Winnetka Hockey Club on and off for 35 years. Our son, Clay, started in the House League program at six in 1988 and skated in the program through his Squirt years. He played AAA with CYA and Team Illinois where my husband and I managed the teams at PeeWee, Bantam and Midget levels. We came back to the program when Clay became the assistant coach for the Bantam AA and A teams on alternate seasons for 13 years.  To get our hockey fix, Jeff and I could be seen in the stands cheering on the team at most games. Clay and his family now live in Charleston, SC. Our daughter Bailey and her family live in Mundelein. Once I retired from Packaging Corporation of America after 49 years, managing and developing learning programs, I decided it was time to give back to the program that gave so much to my family over the years, so here I am!!