High School
George Caliendo
Coach George has been coaching youth hockey for over 20 years. In New York City, he was head coach of the St. Bernard's School ice hockey team from 1988 through 1999, where he coached both pee wees and bantams. During that time, he was also a coach, teacher, tutor and mentor for the Ice Hockey In Harlem community hockey program. After moving from New York to California, he coached in-house pee wee hockey at the LA Kings practice center and later joined the SF Sabercat's program in 2004 when he moved to the Bay Area. Since then, he has coached in San Francisco at the pee wee, bantam and midget levels. Coach George played for the Columbia University club hockey team in college, where he majored in Economics, and the Columbia Business School hockey team in graduate school, where graduated with an MBA in Finance and Management. After 15 years with JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, he is currently an Executive Director in corporate bond sales & trading for Mitsubishi UFJ..
Luke Callinan - HS Assistant
Having grown up in upstate New York, Coach Luke has been skating and playing hockey since he was 4 years old. After progressing through several years in the Ithaca Youth Hockey Association, he went on to play for the AAA Syracuse Stars/Syracuse Crunch, the Ithaca High School Varsity hockey team, and the Jr. A Pembroke Lumber Kings in Pembroke, Ontario. While attending college at Cornell University, where he majored in Hotel Real Estate Finance, Coach Luke captained the men's club hockey team for two of his four years. His coaching experience includes instructing at Upper Canada Power Skating, GDI Hockey Goaltender Clinic, and the Ithaca Youth Hockey High School Development Program. This is his third year coaching with San Francisco youth hockey. Currently, he works for Chartres Lodging, a real estate private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco.
Jake McKee - HS Assistant
Coach Jake grew up in New Jersey, playing youth hockey for the Montclair Blues. He was captain of the Montclair Kimberly Academy hockey team in high school where he was named All-State Honorable Mention and New Jersey Devils Player of the Month. In college, he was on the practice squad for the University of Michigan Division 1 hockey team for 3 years. He graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. After college, while working at UBS Asset Management in NY, he attended the Trenton Titans (ECHL) free agent camp. Most recently, coach Jake played club hockey for USC, where he earned his MS in Aerospace Engineering. He is currently Deputy Director Engineering, Project Development for a utility scale solar power development company in Berkeley.