President

Charles Sgrillo

As a player, Charles was selected to the USA inline developmental program at age 16 and competed internationally until age 23. He would go on to win world championships at ages 16, 18, & 20 as a JR. prospect and 22 as a member of the Men’s National Team.

Charles began his coaching career in 2006 with a local Philadelphia team, the Fox Chase Renegades. In 2007, Charles was selected to coach in the United States Roller Sports Team USA Development Program where he would serve as head coach of teams ranging from 10U to 16U, until 2010.During this time Charles also worked as a lead instructor at the International Ice Hockey School in Pisek, Czech Republic. He currently holds a level 4 USA Hockey coach.

From 2011 to Present, Charles has been selected as an assistant coach to both the Jr. Men’s & Sr. Women’s, where he would coach to four gold medals and a silver medal. Charles has also coached college & elite inline hockey winning the AIHL with the Philadelphia Liberty in 2018.

As a career, Charles is the Red Team Analyst at The Vanguard Group and a Professor at Drexel University teaching cybersecurity & digital forensics.

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MAD Hockey Director

Anthony Merrigan

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As a player Anthony was selected to Team USA (2016,17,18) and competed in the World Roller Games along with (2) World Championships. Anthony has traveled to both China and Italy to represent Team USA.

On the roller hockey Pro Circuit, Anthony represents Revision (True) Hockey. Recently Revision and True partnered up to pair the best wheels in the game with a high level custom skate. The Revision pro team is in transition. Anthony is leading the way with new recruits and helping build to organization back to supremacy.

As President of the Philadelphia Liberty, Anthony has grown the organization from the ground up. Most recently in the AIHL the Liberty captured 6 Championships in 5 years. The Liberty has also won many National Titles including TORHS, NARCH, AAU, STATE WARS. It's hard to go anywhere and not see a Liberty player competing in an event!

As a career, Anthony works in sales working for the largest membership organization in the ad specialties industry. His goal is to manage a sales team and get into business development.

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Skills Instructor

Eric Wakefield

As a player, Eric currently plays for Rink Rat Liberty on the pro tournament series. Prior to the Liberty, Coach Wakefield has played for Revision, Konixx, Black Biscuit, and the Labeda Napalm Rinos from Colombia. In PIHA he also plays for the Philadelphia Liberty

Eric started his playing career in 2015 at the MAD House (NERC). With the coaching and guidance from both Anthony Merrigan and Charles Sgrillo, he was able to learn the game of roller and find his way from Men’s league to a pro level team within 3 years. He is still learning, but he understands what it takes to get to the level that you want to play at. His next goal is to play internationally one day.

Eric has been helping Anthony and Charles with their local hockey clinics for the past few years, including training and working on individual skills with a other MAD hockey players. Eric was also a certified level 2 USA hockey referee.

Skills Instructor

Nick Foster

Nick Foster is a lifelong roller hockey player. He recently started playing for the Rink Rat Liberty pro team. He has 20 years of experience playing the game he loves most! Foster had an outstanding ice hockey career as he was part of the first Grundy Senators team to win districts and go to Nationals since they started as a program.

During his hockey career, Nick has been a part of numerous teams, including the Feasterville JR Fury, the Fox Chase Renegades, the Roadrunners and the Philadelphia Liberty. He also played collegiate hockey at Neumann University in the NCRHA his freshman year winning both Regionals and Regionals MVP. He then transferred to West Chester University his sophomore year and played with the Rams for 4 more years. He has had an excellent collegiate career as he was a top scoring player for the Rams year after year! He also held both captain and co-captain roles.

Foster plays in all the Mad Hockey leagues and is always working hard to become the past player he can be. Nick earned his bachelors degree in marketing from West Chester University and is currently working as a sales representative for The Philadelphia Water Ice company.

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