Hockey Operations

David Warsofsky is entering his first season as Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations for the South Carolina Stingrays. He is the 13th head coach in franchise history. Warsofsky joins the Stingrays following a 14-year professional playing career and most recently served as a special coaching advisor for the Stingrays during the 2024-25 season.

The Marshfield, Massachusetts native played 55 NHL games with the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, New Jersey Devils, and Colorado Avalanche. He appeared in 476 American Hockey League games with Providence, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, San Antonio, Chicago, and Colorado, and spent the final three seasons of his career overseas, captaining the Augsburger Panthers in Germany’s DEL in 2023-24.

Throughout his career, Warsofsky was known for his leadership on and off the ice. He captained Team USA at the 2008 U18 World Championship, was an assistant captain for the gold medal-winning 2010 U20 World Junior team, and represented Team USA at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, serving as an assistant captain. He also captained or served as an assistant captain at various points in the AHL and DEL.

Prior to his professional career, Warsofsky helped Boston University win the 2009 NCAA National Championship and was drafted in the 4th round (95th overall) of the 2008 NHL Draft by the St. Louis Blues.

Scott Davidson is entering his second season behind the Stingrays bench as an Assistant Coach. 

In 2023-24, Davidson oversaw the Stingrays forwards and penalty kill. Under Davidson's leadership, South Carolina's penalty kill finished sixth in the ECHL at 82%.

Davidson played 33 games as a forward for the Rays during the 2019-20 season.

Davidson started his coaching career at the Maine Nordiques Academy in 2021 before coaching at the Elite Hockey Academy in Guilford, Connecticut, this past year. Davidson has helped develop players at the 18U and 16U levels. 

Davidson played four seasons of Division I hockey at Quinnipiac University, where he was an assistant captain in his junior and senior years. As a freshman, Davidson helped the Bobcats capture their first ECAC championship. That same season, Quinnipiac reached the national championship game vs North Dakota. Following the conclusion of his collegiate career, Davidson joined the Charlotte Checkers and was a member of their 2019 Calder Cup championship team.

Mike Hamilton is entering his first season behind the bench with the Stingrays as an assistant coach.

Hamilton's playing career lasted six seasons and he skated in 40 games for the Stingrays between 2011 and 2013. He has lived in Charleston for the majority of his post-playing career and is now beginning his professional coaching career.

A native of Victoria, British Columbia, Hamilton was selected by the Atlanta Thrashers in the sixth round of the 2003 NHL Draft. Following a four-year college hockey career at the University of Maine from 2003-2007, Hamilton skated in 305 career professional games split between two AHL teams, four ECHL teams, and professional teams in Italy and Scotland. In 2007-08, Hamilton won a Calder Cup Championship with the AHL's Chicago Wolves. Hamilton played for the Stingrays for the final two seasons of his professional playing career.

Chuck Liebenrood is entering the first season of his second stint as the Head Equipment Manager for the Stingrays.

Liebenrood grew up in Summerville, SC, and attended Stingrays games as a child. He was in attendance at the North Charleston Coliseum the night the Stingrays won their second Kelly Cup title in 2001. 

Liebenrood played for the Summerville High School hockey team and graduated in 2010. He began working for the Stingrays as an equipment assistant in the 2011-2012 season and was promoted to Head Equipment Manager ahead of the 2014-15 season at age 22.

That season, Liebenrood helped the Stingrays reach the 2015 Kelly Cup Finals, where they fell to the Allen Americans in seven games. The following season, Liebenrood left the team to focus on his family, but he rejoined the Stingrays as a part-time assistant in the 2016-17 season and had been serving in that role for the past seven seasons.

Julia Phillips is entering her first season with the Stingrays. She joins the Rays with experience in both professional and major-junior hockey. She served as the Head Athletic Trainer for the ECHL's Wichita Thunder for the 2023-24 season, and for two seasons before that, she was the Head Athletic Trainer for the BCHL's Wenatchee Wild. 

Before her first full-time hockey job, Phillips studied at the University of Central Florida, where she received a Bachelor's Degree in Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences and a Master's Degree in athletic training. As a graduate student at UCF, Phillips interned for the ECHL's Orlando Solar Bears.