Hockey Director

Tom Magnavite

Email: tmagnavite@morganparksportscenter.net

Phone: (773) 945-6013

Tom (AKA "Mags"), is our new Hockey Director at Morgan Park Sports Center! He is a familiar face at the rink, having worked here from day one in 2015 until 2020. Tom would come back to the Chicago Area in the summers to run camps and help out in between his juniors/college seasons.Growing up on the southside, Tom skated with the St Jude Knights, St Rita High School, Chicago Mission AAA, then played in the NAHL & NA3HL, Saint Mary's University NCAA, and finally played his final games overseas in Italy & Switzerland in exhibition matchups.Tom is a passionate and energetic coach, he is an advocate on effiecient skating and maximizing power, along with quickness in all areas of the game. Tom wants to work on all players' comfortability on the ice, so they can focus on making plays instead of worrying about their mechanics.

Coaching Staff

Duane Cerrito

Coach Duane has been a talended coach and teacher of the game since 2012. He is a USA Hockey Level-3 Certfiied Coach and our 2022-23 NWHL Coach of the Year! An active member of the Chicago Fire Department hockey team since 2008, Duane previously played on the first Cobras Hockey Club team and begain the sport in the Orland Park house league, graduating from Richards High School in Oak Lawn. He now passes along his life-long knowledge, skill and love of hockey to every level of the Chicago Horned Frogs program where all three of his sons are enjoying their early hockey experiences. Duane is highly valued in the South Side hockey community for his thoughful teaching style, dedication and calm coaching manner on and off the ice.

Michael Laureto

Mike is originally from the Greater Grand Rapids area in Michigan and has been living in Chicago since 2005. As a youth he played hockey for EGRAHA in West Michigan. He lettered all 4 years for East Grand Rapids High School where he played forward/center and was selected by his teammates to be an alternate captain during his senior season. Mike was a 3-sport letter-winner in High School where he also started on the football team and was a state champion lacrosse player. He currently enjoys playing adult league/ and drop-in hockey as well as participating in an outdoor roller hockey league during the summer.

Matt Madrigal

Matt Madrigal played youth hockey for the Oak Lawn Park District. He continued playing hockey at Mount Carmel and went on to play club hockey at Northern Illinois University. He began coaching hockey in 1997 at Mount Carmel as an assistant JV coach and continued coaching at St. Jude from 2005 to 2015. He holds a Level 4 USA Hockey coaching certification and supports the Positive Coaching Alliance mission of Better People, Better Athletes.

Julia Tenebruso

Coach Julia is from Madison, WI where she started coaching in 2015. She was a member of the Madison Ice Diamonds synchronized skating team from 2012 to 2019, competing at the national qualifying level and serving as team captain for 3 years. Julia loves learning about the game of hockey and is grateful to share her passion and knowledge of skating with young hockey players as one of our power/edge coaches. When not at the rink, Julia is a student at DePaul University pursuing degrees in Health Sciences, Spanish, and Philosophy.

Kevin Bailey

Scot Curtin

Scot Curtin has a great background in the hockey world. Growing up in the Detroit, Michigan Area, he played AAA growing up, and played for Detroit Catholic Central where in 1997 he won the Michigan Mr. Hockey, awarded to the best High School Player in the entire state of Michigan.

Following high school, he finished playing NCAA at Middlebury College, where he won two NESCAC Championships (2000 & 2001) back to back, and two NCAA National Championships (1998 & 1999) back to back.

Scot's philosophy is fixing bad habits early in a player's development and being active in his coaching style.