• Paul "Doby" Doud

Paul Doud was born in Houghton, Mich., and played youth hockey in the Copper Country Youth Hockey program in Houghton.  As a Peewee, his team finished second in the 1954 National Championship and won it in the 1956 season the first ever national championship for a Michigan team.  He continued to playwith the Houghton Lions Club Juvenile team.  During his high school years,Doud played for the Portage Lake Pioneers Senior Hockey Team that won both the Whittaker and Gibson Cups.
After moving to Milwaukee, Doud joined with other hockey players from Michigan and formed the Milwaukee Wings, the forerunner of the Milwaukee Admirals.  Along the way in the 1970’s, Doud also played for the Milwaukee Metros, the Waterloo Blackhawks and the Fox Valley Astros, all of the original USHL.  He also saw playing time with the Rockton Wagon Wheel, the Milwaukee Wings and the Fond du Lac Bears, with whom he won a State Title. 

Doud was one of the founders of the Milwaukee Wings with whom he played and coached.  When the Wings became the Milwaukee Admirals, he was named the first Captain of that Admirals team.  After an outstanding career with the Admirals, Doud continued to be active with the team as a Minor Official.  He was also involved in other aspects of the game, serving as an off-ice official in the IHL and AHL for 20 years, and worked the 1993 NCAA Championship game between Maine and Michigan.  He also worked for the NHL as an off-ice official for neutral site and exhibition games at the Bradley Center.  He even saw service to the game as a bus driver at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

His involvement with hockey was not limited to playing.  Doud was also a founding members of the Southeast Hockey Association of Wisconsin, popularly known as SHAW.  He coached at all levels for SHAW and was the head coach of the SHAW Club High School Team that won the WAHA State Championship in 1984.  Doud also coached at Milwaukee Winter Club, and the junior varsity team at Pius XI High School for five years.  Along with fellow Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame Inductees Wayne Caufield and Jim Paull, Doud founded and ran the Wilson Park Hockey School for more than 25 years.  Over the course of his life, Doud impacted countless youngsters as hockey players, many of whom would form his “coaching tree” as those youngsters became adults and followed in his footsteps.

Along with being an avid golfer, Doud played or coached youth and high school football, baseball and fast and slow pitch softball.  He worked for Briggs and Stratton in Milwaukee and retired from that company after 34 years.  Doud and his wife Patricia reside in Sebring, Fla., and have three sons, all of whom played and have been involved with hockey:  Stephen, Lake Orion, Mich., Paul, Nekoosa, Wis., and Brendan, Brookfield, Wis.