President, Director of Hockey Operations, & General Manager: George Chalos
Contact: gmc@okwarriors.com
Chalos, a native New Yorker now based in Utah, is in his second year as President and Director of Hockey Operations for the Warriors, and has been involved in junior hockey for more than 20 years. Chalos has served as Owner and President of the NA3HL’s Long Beach Sharks since 2017 and is an Associate Coach with the University of Utah’s ACHA hockey team. In addition to hockey, Chalos is a practicing lawyer with a law degree from St. John’s University.
Head Coach: Eric Ballard
Contact: eric@okwarriors.com
Ballard has an excellent resume, coaching for two decades, including for NAHL, USHL, WSHL, MNJHL, and ACHA teams. In addition, he was selected as an assistant coach for Team USA at the World University Games. Ballard will be serving as the fourth head coach in Oklahoma Warriors franchise history
Assistant Coach: Nic Leibold
Contact: nic@okwarriors.com
Director of Player Personnel: Chris Cerrella
Chris played junior hockey in the USHL for the Waterloo Blackhawks before going onto Quinnipiac University, where he was (and still remains) the school’s All-Time leading scorer with 205 NCAA points, as well as an All-American and a Quinnipiac Hall of Fame Inductee. After Quinnipiac, Chris played professional hockey and tallied 161 points in 176 games played. Since his playing career ended, he has been coaching for over 20 years at the college and junior levels amassing over 500 wins and placing more than 400 players into NCAA college hockey.
Chris will work with our players, scouting and coaching staffs to help develop and promote our players to college programs. Chris will continue as head coach and general manager of his current EHL team and has shared: “I am very excited about this opportunity to work with the Warriors staff and look forward to continuing to build the strong Warriors hockey tradition in Oklahoma. Thank you to George Chalos for bringing me on board.
Regional Scout: Mike Adamek
Mike Adamek comes to Oklahoma to serve as Regional Scout. Mike’s playing career consisted of 4 Years in the NAHL where he amassed 147 points and 459 PIMs in 208 games. After the NAHL, Mike attended Lake Superior State University of the CCHA. After playing 4 years and graduating, Mike played approximately 100 professional games in the ECHL, CHL, and UHL. Mike’s coaching background is at the youth hockey leadership level in Park City, Utah, where he serves as Youth Hockey Director as well as Head Coach for the Park City High School hockey team, which has won 4 of the last 5 Utah state championships and Mike has helped move on over 100 youth players to Tier 1 and Junior Hockey. Mike is married to his wife Bethany, with whom he shares 2 young children.
