Jesse Kallechy was named Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations of the South Carolina Stingrays on June 16, 2026, becoming the 14th head coach in franchise history. He joins the Stingrays after three successful seasons as Head Coach of the Fort Wayne Komets, where he guided the club to the 2026 Western Conference Finals and a Central Division title after a second-place finish in 2024-25. Prior to Fort Wayne, Kallechy served as an assistant coach with the Florida Everblades and helped the organization capture back-to-back Kelly Cup championships in 2022 and 2023. He joined the Everblades after two seasons as Head Coach of the Fayetteville Marksmen of the SPHL, earning SPHL Coach of the Year honors for the 2019-20 season. Kallechy began his coaching career as an assistant coach with the Huntsville Havoc in 2015 and was a member of the club's 2018 President's Cup championship staff before being named head coach of the Marksmen in 2018. A native of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Kallechy played four professional seasons in the SPHL as a goaltender before transitioning into coaching.

Mike Hamilton is entering his second 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 his third 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 third season with the Stingrays. Last season, Phillips was named the ECHL's Athletic Trainer of the Year. Prior to her time with the Stingrays, 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.