Back in his day as a high school athlete, Jim Snider was a football, basketball and baseball player at St. Mary’s Springs.
He never gave much thought to hockey and didn’t really ice skate.
“Now I’m on the ice pretty much every day,” said Snider, a strength and conditioning coach in charge of hockey at the University of Wisconsin. “But it’s not every day that I’m on my skates,” he said, adding that he’s become a passable skater since working with the hockey programs at the UW and in a stint at the University of Minnesota.