The Cambridge RedHawks have their next head coach.
Mike McIlveen will step behind the bench for the 2024-25 season, the team announced on Tuesday.
McIlveen brings with him an extensive coaching and playing career that has featured multiple stops around the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League and Midwestern Conference.
He was most recently an associate coach with the Brantford Bandits.
Prior to arriving in the Telephone City, MiIlveen was the head coach of the London Nationals and Kitchener-Waterloo Siskins.
On the ice, he played in 12 games for the Cambridge Winter Hawks during the 1996-97 season before closing out his junior career with the Orangeville Crushers.
Over the course of five seasons of college hockey, four of which were played with the University of Waterloo, the Kitchener native suited up in 75 games and totalled 46 points.
His final season as a player came in 2006-07 when he played 32 games for the Southern Professional Hockey League's Columbus Cottonmouths.
The RedHawks are coming off a season that saw them post a 21-25-4 record and a sixth place finish in the Midwestern Conference.
They were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in five games at the hands of the Elmira Sugar Kings.
Next up for the team is their prospects camp taking place at the Cambridge Sports Park on May 25 and 26.