Chris Glionna enters his 18th season as men’s ice hockey head coach at Suffolk University in 2021-22.

Glionna is the all-time winningest hockey coach in program history with 130 career victories. Over his tenure he was voted by his peers as ECAC Northeast Hockey Coach of the Year during the 2009-10 season. That year, Suffolk won the CodFish Bowl Hockey Tournament hosted by UMass Boston, while also qualifying for the ECAC Northeast Hockey Tournament.

Overall 24 players have earned recognition by the ECAC Northeast Hockey League under Glionna’s direction, highlighted by Simon Leahy’s Rookie of the Year nod in 2013-14 and Jeff Rose’s Goaltender of the Year honor in 2009-10.

After 10-plus seasons with the ECAC Northeast, Suffolk took its talents to the freshly formed Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) for the league’s inaugural season in 2016-17. 

That season, the Rams missed the postseason by a small margin, but made up for it a year later as the eighth seed thanks in large part to the netminding of junior Michael Levine and his classmate Mikhail Bryan, an All-CCC third-team selection, who played both defense and offense for the Rams. 

In two seasons in the CCC, 18 student-athletes took home 27 All-CCC academic accolades.  

From there, Glionna guided the blue-and-gold in a two-year stint in the New England Hockey Conference (NEHC), that spanned the 2018-19 and 2019-20 campaigns, respectively. 

Over those two seasons, Suffolk skated to 14 victories, seven versus conference foes, two of which were ranked in the top 25. Academically, 22 Rams were rewarded by the NEHC for their work inside the classroom. 

Since 2016-17, Suffolk’s academic success has been acknowledged with AHCA All-America Scholars. In four seasons, the Rams have collected 34 nods from the national organization, which awards individuals who achieve a 3.75 GPA and compete in at least 40 percent of the teams’ contests.  

Glionna is a 1995 Suffolk University graduate and also earned his Law degree at Suffolk University Law School in 2001. He is currently an attorney for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Glionna was recently named by Boston Magazine as a 2009 Massachusetts “Super Lawyers Rising Stars” in litigation from a poll of Massachusetts attorneys conducted by Boston Magazine and Law and Politics Magazine. Super Lawyers Rising Stars” are nominated by their peers and evaluated by a blue-ribbon panel. Only 2.5% of the eligible attorneys in Massachusetts are selected. To qualify, an attorney must be age 40 or younger, or in practice for 10 years or less.

Glionna's father, Leonard A. Glionna and brother, Josh Glionna, also graduated from Suffolk University.