Former collegiate men's ice hockey player Terry Metro is the newest addition to the Lake Superior State University men's ice hockey program and joined the Lakers in late August 2017.

Metro will serve both as the Lakers' Director of Hockey Operations and Strength and Conditioning Coach.  

As the director of hockey operations, Metro will coordinate travel arrangements, set up meals and organize ice time among other duties. He will also handle the majority of Lake Superior State's video, organizing it, exchanging with teams and cutting clips for scouting reports.  

Prior to LSSU, Metro was an assistant coach before being promoted to associate status for the North American Hockey League's (NAHL) Bozeman (Montana) Icedogs from 2000-04 where he also coordinated the team's strength and conditioning.

Metro, the younger brother of current Lake State assistant coach Rich Metro, spent 1997-98 at his alma mater the University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS) in an assistant coaching position on head coach Terry Watkins' staff.  The former UWS goaltender worked primarily with the Blue Devils' netminders.  Metro then went to Northern Michigan University where he was a graduate assistant coach and the Wildcats' goaltending coach for the 1998-99 season. 

Metro is a 1999 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (UWRF)where he majored in health and human performance.  He was a member of UWRF's Iron Man Team in 1994. 

A standout prep athlete at Sault Area High School in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Metro earned all-state and all-conference accolades in both hockey and golf.  He was a member of the 1989 Sault Area High State Championship team in hockey.  The 1991 Sault Area High School graduate was also a manager for the school's baseball team.  

Metro played bantam hockey in the 1986-87 season for the Soo Elks and played an integral role in leading the team to the 1987 Bantam National Championship title.  In the 1991-92 campaign, Metro skated for the Minot (N.D.) Americans of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) and was selected as the team's Most Improved Player.

The son of Con and Grace Metro, Rich's father played on the original 1966-67 LSSU Laker hockey team coached by Ron Mason.  Metro enjoys weightlifting and playing golf.