WENATCHEE, Wash. – The Wenatchee Wild and Wenatchee Wild Hockey Academy, proud members of the Western Hockey League (WHL) and Canadian Sport School Hockey League (CSSHL), are pleased to announce that 16-and-Under head coach Pat Norlin and assistant coach Tynan Peacock will return to the program for its 2025-26 season, the program’s third as a full CSSHL member. The two will continue to coach alongside Hockey Director Troy Mick and 18U co-coach Jordan McTaggart, whose commitments for the 2025-26 season were announced Friday.

Norlin returned to the Wild organization last spring after several years in tourism and finance in the Wenatchee area, and was involved with the club during its first five years in the Valley, including as a coach for the Wenatchee Wolves during their time as a member of the former Northern Pacific Hockey League. He served as the Wild 16U team’s head coach this past season, and will serve in that capacity again in 2025-26.

A native of Lake Stevens, Washington, Peacock also comes back for his second year with the club after joining the Wild organization just before the start of the 2024-25 season. He came to the Wild after spending the 2023-24 season as an assistant coach with the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League’s Campbell River Storm, helping to guide the team to a VIJHL regular-season championship. He returned to Wenatchee after playing for the club from the 14U to 18U levels, before a three-year junior career that included a VIJHL All-Star season with the Storm in 2021-22.

They will join Mick and McTaggart in coming back to the club for the upcoming season, as Mick begins his fourth full season with the Wild Hockey Academy and McTaggart opens his eighth season in Wenatchee. The Academy added Washington state’s first USA Hockey-certified 15-Only program this past season, and three of the Academy’s four Tier I national-bound teams earned spots in the USA Hockey Pacific District tournament at the end of February

The Wenatchee Wild Hockey Academy is excited to welcome Pat Norlin and Tynan Peacock back to the Wild family for the upcoming year, and wish the Academy teams the best of luck as their 2024-25 seasons conclude.