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Jason Smits

Jason Smits

Experience
  • Equipment Manager – Hockey, Omaha (NCAA Division I – NCHC) – 2017-Present
  • Equipment Manager, USA Hockey – 2014-Present
  • Hockey Equipment Manager, Clarkson (Division I – ECAC Hockey) – 2016-17
  • Equipment Manager, Muskegon Lumberjacks (USHL) – 2010-16
Personal
  • Native of Moline, Ill.
  • Resides with wife Crystal and two kids Delaney and Oliver in Elkhorn, Neb.
At Omaha
  • Leads all daily equipment efforts for Omaha hockey
  • Designed four new CCM game and practice jerseys
  • Assisted with initiating and the eventual renewal of Omaha’s CCM equipment and jersey contract
  • Served as host equipment manager during the 2024 NCAA Regional in Sioux Falls, S.D.
  • Worked as equipment staff lead during the 2020 NCHC COVID-19 Pod
USA Hockey Highlights
  • Served as equipment manager for several USA Hockey-sponsored events including Hlinka Gretzky Cup, U17 Five Nations Tournament, USA Hockey Select Festival, World Junior A Challenge, Officials Development Camp and U18 Four Nations Tournament
Clarkson Highlights
  • Serve as head equipment manager for the men’s hockey program while overseeing the women’s hockey program’s equipment management staff
  • Oversaw women’s equipment staff during national championship season (2016-17)
  • Tracked both programs’ finances and kept inventory of equipment and soft goods
Muskegon Highlights
  • Head equipment manager for the Lumberjacks
  • Managed hockey operations for the team beginning in 2014