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LVPY 2019-20 Midget U16 Coaching Announcement

By Webmaster, 01/26/19, 9:15AM EST

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The Lehigh Valley Phantoms Youth is excited to announce the U16 Coaches for the 2019/2020 Season. Keith Krem, Vinny Cuvo, and Tony Miller will be our U16 Head Coaches. Each brings a unique style, tremendous knowledge and love of the game, and all are incredibly dedicated to the Phantoms Youth Organization. Please see the attached bios for more information on Keith, Vinny, and Tony.  

 

About Keith Krem (2019 – 2020, U16-AA Head Coach LVPY) Keith Krem has been playing and coaching hockey for the past 32 years with over 25 years spent locally playing and coaching in the Atlantic District. He started as a mite playing for the Lehigh Valley Comets before moving on at Pee Wee to play for the Junior Flyers. In 8th grade, Keith began attending the Hill School and was named a member of the Team Philadelphia Pee Wee Quebec Team. While at Hill, Keith continued to play the next three seasons for both the Hill School and the Valley Forge Colonials before making the Hill School’s Varsity team his junior year. Post prep school, Krem attended the Rochester Institute of Technology where he transferred his talents to the play for the National Roller Hockey Championship winners. During his time there he led the team between the pipes to 4 top 10 national finishes and was a 4-year ECRHL All-Star. Krem has spent the last 12 years coaching for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms Youth and is the longest-tenured head coach in the organization. He has been a head coach at the U8 Boys, U8 Girls, U10 Tier1, U12, U14 Tier1, U16 Girls, U16 Boys, and U18 levels. Krem has been instrumental in moving players onto the next level with over 15 players moving on to prep, junior, or college hockey from his teams. Krem is currently a Vice President for Phantoms Youth Hockey Operations and the U12 AA Head Coach. Beyond his coaching efforts, he has spent the past 2 years coordinating and running the Lehigh Valley U8 Developmental League. A partnership between the Phantoms Youth, RU Hockey, and Steel Ice Center the league launched in 2017 and has a mission of growing the game of hockey locally in the Lehigh Valley by providing the newest and youngest players on ice instruction/gameplay based around the concepts of the American Developmental Model. Away from the Phantoms Youth, Krem is a partner of Recruit U Hockey. He provides private/group skill instruction and coaches the RU Hockey Spring tournament teams. During the summer months, Krem provides 6 weeks of daily high-intensity training for local ACHA, NCAA, and Junior players.

 

 

Vinny Cuvo started his playing career locally with the Lehigh Valley Thunder. Next came the Blast and the Flames until he left after his first year of 18U to play junior hockey in New Jersey. While playing Vinny helped multiple mite/squirt teams in our organization in his spare time. Vinny is a level 4 USA Hockey coach. Cuvo spent his first season as an assistant coach with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Jr. Knights Tier 1 peewee team while finishing his junior career. He then came on Board as the Head Coach of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms Youth Pee Wee A National team. Vinny leads that team to an undefeated regular season in the DVHL. The team would then go on to win the Atlantic District Championship. Cuvo has since taken that team through 2 very successful seasons at Bantam A and Bantam AA. Vinny will also be joining The Lehigh Valley Phantoms Youth Hockey Operations Team.

 

Tony Miller started his playing career with roller hockey when he was young. In middle school he started playing ice hockey for Emmaus JV and the Comets. Tony moved to California at the start of high school and played for a few Travel Organizations before playing Junior hockey in Valencia. Tony is a level 3 USA Hockey Coach. He has coached for 3 years. He helped coach the Emmaus Middle School Team in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. He was the Head Coach during the 2017-18 season. In the 2017-18 season he started coaching with the Phantoms. He came on board and helped out with the Mites. In the 2018-19 season he took the Bantam B Head coaching position.