WHERE ARE THEY NOW? NOW
You Might Remember... Boeser battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma prior to his junior season before becoming a tri-captain and scoring two game-winners (including one in an NCAA tournament win over Ohio State) as a senior.
Age: 30
Resides: Lakeville, Minn. (1 1/2 years)
Family: Wife, Marisa; sons, Jake, Luke
Profession: Entrepreneur
DAN BOESER MEN’S HOCKEY (2000-04)
Catch us up on what you have been doing since graduation: “I played hockey with a bunch of teams. I played for Houston and Milwaukee in the AHL, Elmira in the ECHL, Rockford in the UHL — won a championship there in 2007 — and then finished up in Muskegon in the IHL. I’ve lived in Lakeville, Minn., for about the past year and a half after retiring from hockey following four knee surgeries.”
THEN
What have been some of the highlights of your career? “Outside of hockey, getting married in 2004 and raising our two little boys is exciting. The older one (Jake), especially, is into skating lessons and starting to get into T-ball right now. That is fun to see.”
What is your best memory of being a student-athlete at Wisconsin? “There’s a lot of them. I got to play with a lot of current NHL players. I got to play for some big- time coaches – Jeff Sauer, Mark Johnson and Mike Eaves. It was a unique experience being in the middle of the transition. I got to meet numerous people I’m still in contact with today. A lot of friend- ships were formed.
I think our class in particular, that 2004 class, helped start the new tradition. We made it to NCAAs and lost to Maine in overtime to go to the Frozen Four. [Dan scored the game-winning goal over Ohio State in the first round of the NCAA tournament that year to give the Badgers a 1-0 vic- tory.] That was a big turnaround from our junior year with the new coaching staff when our record was below .500.”
UW Degree: Sociology (2004)
