Tom Doig is in his first season as the assistant coach with the Yellowjacket women's hockey team, the latest stop in a coaching career that has spanned more than 30 years.
A UW-Superior alumnus, Doig comes to the Yellowjackets after spending the last two seasons at Hayward High School where he helped guide the Hurricanes girls team to a state runner-up finish in 2014-15, and Wisconsin state championship in 2015-16.
He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at UW-Eau Claire, where he spent two seasons (1980-82) as an assistant coach with the Blugolds. From there Doig moved into the high school ranks in Minnesota where he coached from 1985 through 1996. He made stops at St. Paul Highland Park, Spring Lake Park, and Mounds View high schools, as well as Burnsville High School where in 1990-91 he helped the Braves to a third place finish at the Minnesota State High School Hockey tournament, the final year that the event was a one-class field.
After a two-year hiatus Doig returned to the coaching ranks in 1998 as a youth hockey coach in the Twin Cities, and coached both boys and girls teams at various levels over the next decade.
More recently Doig served as a principal in the New Prague (Minnesota) School District.
Doig was a standout for the Yellowjacket men's hockey team from 1976 through 1980 and helped the Yellowjackets to three NAIA tournament appearances, including a third place finish in 1980. An offensive wizard, Doig currently ranks in a tie for sixth on the Yellowjackets' all-time scoring list with 164 points. He is sixth all-time in assists (96) and eighth all time in goals (68).
He is also part of the first father-son tandem to play for the Yellowjackets. His son Alec was a defenseman at UW-Superior from 2011 through 2014.
The Duluth native graduated from UW-Superior with his Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1980 and earned his Master's Degree in athletic administration from the University of St. Thomas in 1990.
