Michigan Tech

Senior Season
Named to the All-WCHA Academic Team ... Earned the BobbyGitzen-Dick Loutit Award as the team's outstanding defenseman ...Set career-highs in goals (four), assists (eight) and points (12)... His 12 points ranked second among the team's defensemen ... Ledthe team with 73 penalty minutes ... Notched two assists atColorado College on Oct. 24th and two assists in a 4-1 win overMinnesota State on Jan. 29th ... Scored powerplay goals againstNorth Dakota on Nov. 6th and at Wisconsin on Dec. 4th ... Scored anunassisted goal in 3-1 win over St. Cloud State on Oct. 30th.

Junior Season
An All-WCHA Academic Team selection ... Finished with acareer-high five points (one goal, four assists) in 33 games ...Started the season on a scoring streak, recording four points inthe first six games of the season, including a three-game pointstreak from Oct. 18 to Nov. 1 ... Scored first career goal in 4-2win over Alaska Anchorage on Oct. 31 ... Assisted on DerekKitti’s game-tying goal against Minnesota Duluth on Feb. 21.

Sophomore Season
Played in 21 games ... Earned the Elov Seger MemorialAward as the team’s most improved player ... Tallied acareer-high two assists ... Recorded first assist of the season atMinnesota on Dec. 1 ... Tallied an assist in 2-1 win over No. 7Denver on March 1.

Freshman Season
Saw action in six games, including last four of theseason … Distributed primary assist on Ryan Bunger’sgame-winning goal Mar. 11 at Colorado College.

Prior to Michigan Tech
Appeared in 37 regular-season games for the MahoningValley Phantoms (formerly Youngstown Phantoms) of the NorthAmerican Hockey League in 2005-06 … Tallied 8-18--26 points,including three power-play goals … Spent the 2004-05 seasonplaying for the now defunct Cleveland Barons of the NAHL …Registered 13-21--34 points in 56 games, including three power-playgoals and two shorthanded markers … A 2004 graduate ofBrighton (Mich.) High School.

Personal
Enjoys wakeboarding, mountain biking, skiing and hunting… Has three brothers, two younger, and one younger sister… His older brother Kurt was a forward on MichiganState’s hockey team … Cousin of former Michigan Techdefenseman Lars Helminen … Son of Phil and Karen Kivisto ofBrighton, Mich. … Born John Matthew Kivisto on Nov. 24,1986, in Brighton, Mich. … Shoots left … Carries a3.05 cumlative grade point average in construction management.