University of Manitoba Athletics

Over his tenure, Rempel was named Canada West Coach of the Year five times (2004-05), (2006-07) (2014-15) (2016-17) (2017-18) and has led the Bisons to ten Canada West finals, and six trips to the national championships.

Rempel was also the U SPORTS Coach of the Year in 2017-18 after guiding the Bisons to their first-ever national title. In five other trips to nationals, the Bisons have won bronze three times, finished fourth once and finished sixth once. His cumulative conference record stands at 259-157-32, while his cumulative overall record is 391-252-41. 

Rempel played at the University of Manitoba from 1993-1996, where he was a three-time Academic All-Canadian. Rempel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995 and then left the University of Manitoba to push towards a professional hockey career highlighted by a two game tryout with the Portland Pirates of the A.H.L. in 1997 - 1998. Rempel also played two and a half years in the East Coast Hockey League with the Baton Rouge KingFish before retiring after half a year in the British National League with the Slough Jets.

Upon his return to the University in 1999, he completed his Bachelor of Recreation Studies, began working with Bison Sports and also continued on with his coaching career that includes one year as an assistant with the Winnipeg South Blues of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League and one year as an assistant with the University of Manitoba Women's Hockey Team. In 2005-06 he earned his  NCCP High Performance 1 (Advanced 1) certification and in 2013 he completed his High Performance 2 (Advanced 2) Coaching Level through the NCCP and Hockey Canada.

Additionally,  Rempel was an assistant with the Under-18 provincial team that won bronze at the 2007 Under-18 National Championships in Kitchener and the Head Coach of Team Manitoba at the U-18 Nationals in Surrey (finished fourth place) in November 2009. In 2010, he was named a camp coach at  Hockey Canada's U-22 Selection Camp in Toronto. In 2015, Rempel led the Canadian team to a silver medal at the FISU (University) Games in Granada, Spain. He was also a guest coach with the Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League in the fall of 2018 and the Fife Flyers of the Elite Ice Hockey League (United Kingdom) in the winter of 2018. 

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