The Tulsa Rampage is pleased to announce the selection of new Head Coach, Marty Quarters. Quarters has over 17 years of coaching and recruiting experience, where he continually demonstrated success in advancing players to higher levels. 

At the close of his professional career, he began coaching at the AAA level in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan before continuing at that level with the Cleveland Barons. His coaching ability was recognized early as he led his high school age AAA organizations to State Championships, Regional Championships, and births at the National Championship level. Yet it was not the team’s win-loss records that Quarters takes the most pride in. His goals were focused on getting opportunities for players to move up which was a feat at which he excelled. From the AAA level he advanced significant numbers of Players to the Junior A level, NCAA Divisions I and III, and to the US National Development Training Program. In addition, 7 players were drafted from his AAA programs to the NHL.

Quarters advanced to coaching juniors in 1998 holding positions at the Tier II and III levels. His success with those programs gained more recognition, leading to an assistant coaching, recruiting, and player promotion position with the Sioux City Musketeers of the USHL, the country's only Tier I program.  His team made the playoffs in all three seasons and once again, the advancement of players proved to be a testament to Quarters’ ability.  Thirty-eight players advanced to NCAA Division I, with other advancing to NCAA DIII and nine were drafted to the NHL. 

Quarters success afforded him the opportunity for personal advancement and after three seasons at the nation’s highest junior level, he joined the coaching staff of Merrimack College (Hockey East), an NCAA Division I program. Although he boasted success in the NCAA as well, Quarters heart remained with Junior Hockey and after two seasons, he opted to return the junior level where he staged a remarkable worst to first transformation for the Yellowstone Quake in USA Hockey’s NORPAC league. A sought after commodity, Quarters was wooed to the North American Hockey League where he held a short term stint as the Head Coach of the Kenai River Brown Bears. 

It was from there that the Tulsa Rampage was able to capitalize on bringing in one of the country’s leading coaches. After a disappointing start to the current season, Tulsa Rampage General Manager Julie Wilson feels certain the Quarters is the man to right the ship. “I’m thrilled with the addition of Marty Quarters,” she notes “his coaching ability and his proven ability to advance players is second to none. In addition, he has a heart for the game and for the players that is simply refreshing.” After only one week of practices under Quarters tutelage the players openly comment on how much they’re learning and developing while Wilson sums up the change. “I went into the locker room yesterday and for the first time in a long time I saw that same look on the player’s faces that they had the first day they arrived,” she says “that look of having hope for a future in a sport they love.”