Tom Magee

Biography

Veteran equipment manager Tom Magee is in his 44th season with the Michigan State hockey program. Magee serves as assistant to Dave Pruder, director of MSU athletic equipment, as well as performing duties with the Spartan hockey program. He has been a part of two National Championship runs (1986, 2007) with MSU. Magee’s role as equipment manager consists of ordering, preparing, maintaining and repairing hockey equipment for the team. He worked at U.S. Olympic Festivals in North Carolina in 1987 and in San Antonio in 1993 and has twice assisted Team USA in the North America College Hockey Championship. Magee began his work with MSU athletic equipment in 1975 as a student equipment manager for numerous Spartan athletic programs before assuming his current position in October 1981. A graduate of Okemos High School, Magee has two children: his daughter, Heather, is a MSU graduate, while son, Tim, was a student manager for the hockey team and graduated from MSU in 2014. He and his wife, Paula, reside in Bath with her son, Caden and have four grandchildren.