Career
He was the head coach of Saint Lawrence during their renaissance after World World War II taking them to 5 Frozen Fours during his tenure. As many people did during the second world war George Menard enlisted in the armed services after graduating high school, but as he enlisted in October 1945 his services were unneeded for the war effort. The following fall he began attending Brown University, playing both ice hockey and baseball for the Bears to such an outstanding degree that he was signed by the New York Yankees.
George eschewed a professional playing career in favor of coaching, becoming the head coach at Saint Lawrence in 1955 for both ice hockey and baseball.
Menard continued the Saint"s winning ways from the beginning, getting his team to a second straight National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament in his first season. In each of his first nine seasons behind the bench Menard would get Saint Lawrence to finish with winning records as well as making five tournament appearances (four coming in consecutive seasons).
Menard took off the 1967-1968 season to earn an Master of Business Administration from Syracuse University and though he returned to Canton the next year he couldn"t recover the success he had had his first dozen years as coach. Menard resigned after the 1970-1971 season, turning the program over to Bernie McKinnon who had served as a stand-in during his year off and then resigned as the baseball head coach after the following season.
After his retirement Menard was inducted into the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame in 1976 and the Saint Lawrence Athletic Hall of Fame in 1981.
