University of Denver Athletics

Dallas Ferguson is his eighth season as an assistant coach with the Pioneers in 2025-26 after being hired to the position on July 3, 2018.  Ferguson helped Denver win both the 2022 and 2024 NCAA National Championships, as well as the 2024 NCHC Frozen Faceoff Championship, two Penrose Cups as NCHC regular-season champions (2021-22, 2022-23) and reach four Frozen Fours (2019, 2022, 2024, 2025).
 
The Wainwright, Alberta, native’s primary responsibilities on David Carle’s staff include working with the defensemen and power play.
 
Prior to coming to DU, Ferguson served as the head coach of the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League for the 2017-18 campaign after spending the previous nine seasons as the head coach of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He led the Nanooks from 2008-2017 and guided the team to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2010, the first in the program’s D-I history.
 
Ferguson, 51, began his coaching career as an assistant coach with the Fairbanks Ice Dogs junior team (2002-2004) before returning to his alma mater to serve as an assistant at UAF from 2004-2008, working under fellow DU assistant and then-Alaska head coach Tavis MacMillan from 2004-2007.
 
Ferguson played four seasons with Alaska Fairbanks from 1992-1996, serving as a captain of the squad during his senior campaign. He finished his college career with 104 points (17g/87a) and 64 penalty minutes in 138 games and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
 
The defenseman went on to play four seasons of professional hockey with the Richmond Renegades of the ECHL as well as with the Alaska Gold Kings and Anchorage Aces of the West Coast Hockey League. He recorded 69 points (6g/63a) points in 159 career WCHL games.
 
Ferguson resides with his family in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.