Coaching Staff

Head Coach Rob Pozzebon 

Coach Pozzebon was born and raised in Canada. He received his Bachelor of Science degree at Queens University where he began his coaching career 28 years ago. During the 22 years that Rob has lived in the United States he has coached at various levels of youth hockey including working as a Head Coach and Assistant Coach at AA and AAA travel hockey as well as High School Hockey. Last season was Rob’s fifth year with the Central Indiana Knights, where he led the team to a finals appearance in the 1A State Tournament Championship. Prior to coaching the Knights, he spent three seasons as the Tri- State Spartans 18U AAA as the Assistant Coach. He was also previously a head coach with HSE Hockey and the Cathedral/Chatard Hockey Club where his team won a state championship. Rob holds a Level 5 USA Hockey certification, and has always had a focus on player development, helping each player achieve their highest potential while striving to exceed team goals.

Assistant Coach/Team Scheduler Dan Dufek 

Coach Dufek was born and raised in Central Indiana where he played youth and high school hockey. Prior to last season with the Central Indiana Knights, Dan coached three years in the ACHA while an Assistant Coach for Ball State University DIII team. In addition, Dan has coached travel and high school hockey as a Head Coach for the FYHA, Jr. Ice, Jr. Fuel, HSE, and the South Stars. Dan holds a Level 4 USA Hockey certification and has completed all the Age-Related Modules as well. Over his 17 years of coaching Dan’s coaching philosophy and focus is on player development. He holds two earned degrees in Philosophy and is currently working toward his Doctorate in that discipline. He also owns a Logistics company based in McCordsville.

Assistant Coach Brad Farrar

Coach Farrar has played hockey starting at the age of 4. Part of his 35 years of experience as a player was playing for the Cathedral Chatard Hockey Club from 1994-1998. Brad begins his third year as an Assistant Coach with the Central Indiana Knights. He spent the previous 4 seasons coaching his two sons who play in the Junior Fuel program. He is excited to continue his involvement with the Knights this season, where he will again focus on the development of the team’s defensemen. During his youth and high school years Brad remembers great coaching staffs that taught and mentored him as well as helped shape him into the person he is today. Along with skill and team development Brad will be that leader for the kids on this team.

Goaltending Coach J.T. Funk 

J.T. Funk is in his 4th year with the team. J.T. grew up playing hockey in Indianapolis at the age of three. In his youth, he played multiple seasons with the Indianapolis Racers before joining the Cathedral Chatard Hockey Club in his 8th grade year. J.T. served as captain for four of his five years playing for the Cathedral Chatard Hockey Club. After graduating from Bishop Chatard High School in 2001, J.T. went on to play for St. Louis University during his freshman year of college. After transferring to IU Bloomington, he played for IUPUI’s hockey club while wrapping up his undergraduate degree. In 2013, J.T. began coaching mites in the FYHA. He has since coached AA and A travel teams of various age levels. J.T. has focused his coaching not just on age-appropriate development, but on goalie development by paying particular attention to the role goalies play on teams and how coaches can best develop goalies through proper integration of goalie-specific work in practices. He also places an emphasis on pre and post-routines and developing a “game-ready” mentality. J.T. is excited to bring his years of experience as a high school teacher, hockey player, and coach to the Central Indiana Knights to help players excel and develop on and off the ice.

Assistant Coach Deron Wait 

Coach Wait was born in Central Illinois and moved to Indianapolis during Elementary School which is when he started playing hockey with the IYHA program.  Deron’s family moved back to Illinois for Junior High and he continued playing for the local high school program. Coach Wait served as Assistant Captain his Junior year and Captain his Senior year.  It didn’t take Deron long to move to coaching after high school. He moved back to Indianapolis and started coaching with the Squirt age group in the IYHA house league program at only 18 years old. Since then, he has coached with the IYHA Pee-Wee All-Stars, several ages of travel hockey for the Indianapolis Racers A & AA levels, as well as the Indy Checkers AAA program. Following the youth travel teams, Coach Wait moved on to coach with Carmel High School, Team Indiana (High School All-Stars), Ball State Men’s Club, and is now with the Central Indiana Knights. Deron is entering his fourth season with the Knights.  Coach Wait also enjoys coaching his son’s Indy Junior Fuel youth team. Deron has also earned his Level 4-Advanced USA Hockey Coaching Certificate. Away from the rink, Coach Wait is an Account Manager at E.J. Welch where he has been since the mid 90’s. He also loves spending time with his wife Shannon and their kids Mackensie and Connor. 

Head Coach Alex Moyer

Alex Moyer is an Indiana native and High School graduate of Zionsville High School During high school, Alex not only had a passion for lacrosse, where they won a High School Championship in 2003, but also found a calling for working on cars, which is where his career in the Automotive Industry started. He is now the owner of Vivid Automotive and has been for almost 10 years. Alex’s love for hockey started at a young age and, along with cars, was his sole focus through his school years; he played on many travel teams and had a handful of coaches who helped shape and mold him, both as a player and as a person. It is this reason he has such a drive for coaching at the high school level; he strives to not only be the best coach he can, but also an advocate for his players. Alex has spent the last four seasons as the Head Coach for the Northside Hockey, spending multiple seasons prior coaching for IYHA and Indy Jr. Fuel. He holds a level 4 USA Hockey certification and attends all classes he can to retain the highest level certification he can. His coaching outlook is simple, he not only wants your athlete to excel on the ice, but also off the ice; he knows that through guidance, tough love, and discipline, he is not only preparing the athlete for the game, but also for life after. When Alex is not on the ice coaching, or playing men’s league, you can find him golfing or spending time with his wife (and three dogs).