Head Coach and General Manager Cody Campbell
Cody Campbell is entering his sixth season as Tauros Head Coach and General Manager.
A native of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Campbell, a goaltender, played four seasons in the USHL with the Fargo Force and Cedar Rapids Roughriders. From there he played three seasons for NCAA Division I Niagara University.
Immediately after his college career, Campbell began a coaching career in the NAHL with the Odessa Jackalopes as their Goaltending Coach for the 2013-14 season. By the next season Campbell was promoted to Assistant Coach and Assistant General Manager. The next season Campbell served as the Assistant Coach for the Janesville Jets. In 2016-17 he started the season with his first Head Coaching job with the Colorado Springs Tigers 16U team before returning to Cedar Rapids as an Assistant in November. The next two seasons saw Campbell return to the Jackalopes, this time as Associate Head Coach.
Finally, Campbell has spent two seasons prior to coming to Minot as the Head Coach of the Walpole Express in the EHL and a scout for the USHL’s Dubuque Fighting Saints. In his first season with Walpole, Campbell earned EHL Coach of the Year honors. In 2023-24 following the Minotauros Central Cup win, Campbell was named Head Coach of the year.
Assistant Coach Mike Meredith
Mike Meredith is entering his second year as an Assistant Coach for the Minot Minotauros after spending multiple years playing junior hockey and college hockey. Mike is a native of Fredonia, New York. He played for the Walpole Express in the EHL for three years where he was named a three year captain. Following his time in the EHL he played four years of NCAA D3 hockey for SUNY Brockport and was a two year captain. While at Brockport he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in athletic administration.
Mike is excited for this upcoming 2025 – 26 season where he will get to become part of the Minot community!
Goaltending Coach Wyatt Waselenchuk
Wyatt Waselenchuk,Coach Waselenchuk was introduced as the new head men’s hockey coach in the spring of 2021 and in his first year as the Beavers head coach, he led the team to a 31-3 record, to a No. 1 ACHA Division I national ranking in the during the 2021-22 season, and to another appearance in the ACHA National Tournament.
A former Minot State assistant coach and player, Wyatt Waselenchuk takes over a Beaver men’s hockey program that has been one of the most prolific ACHA Division I teams in the country, over the last 10 years – including winning 2 national championships, 9 straight quarterfinal appearances, and 5 final fours.
Previously, Waselenchuk served as an assistant coach over the past five seasons. He is a native of Port Moody, British Columbia, and grew up playing his minor hockey in the Greater Vancouver area, before moving on to play in the BCHL with the Langley Chiefs and the SJHL with the Nipawin Hawks.
Coach Waselenchuk played for the Beavers from 2010-2014, which included being a part of the 2013 National Championship team. He became the first and only player in the team’s history to be named ACHA Division 1 Player of the Year, following the Beavers title run. Wyatt was also named a First-Team All-American in 2013 and a Second-Team All-American in 2014. Holding dual citizenship, he was chosen in his final season to represent Team USA at the World University Games in Trentino, Italy.
Wyatt has also been an assistant coach with the Minot Minotauros (NAHL) for the last 6 seasons and is the head goalie coach for the Minot Hockey Boosters youth hockey association.
Upon the end of Wyatt’s playing career in 2014, he immediately jumped into coaching, and specifically – goalie development. He is the owner and Co-Founder of GoalieCoaches, and spends his off-season running goalie camps throughout the Midwestern part of the United States and Canada.
Skills Coach Brian Bauman
Brian Bauman, a native of Matawan, New Jersey, Bauman was 1st Team ALL-State while playing for Christian Brother Academy. From there he moved on to play for the Metro Jets of the Central State Hockey League (which eventually became the NA3HL) and then played NCAA DIII hockey for SUNY-Brockport.
Upon graduating Bauman moved right into coaching, starting with Belle Tire Bantams in 2007 and eventually coming to Minot in 2014 to become the Director of the Minot Hockey Boosters Youth Program.
While running the MHB program Bauman has also served in multiple coaching roles with Team ND and worked as a scout for the Tauros and Sioux Falls Stampede of the USHL.