Named the 11th President & Commissioner of the USHL in 2023, Glenn Hefferan has an extensive background as a volunteer, board and committee member with USA Hockey as well as running/directing youth and junior hockey clubs and leagues. He served as President of the Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association, the USA Hockey Affiliate for New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Delaware, having been re-elected three times since his initial election in 2015.
Hefferan was elected to the USA Hockey Executive Committee in June of 2021 where he served on the Finance and Investment Committee, Governance Committee and Strategic Planning Committee.
The owner and operator of High-Performance Group, LLC which was created in 2012 as a branding, image, business development and sales services organization with a core focus on ice arenas, amateur hockey Leagues, and clubs, Hefferan's involvement in amateur hockey dates back to his youth hockey-playing days in Jersey City, N.J.
Hefferan began officiating and coaching hockey as a teenager before forming a college development junior team in his early '20s. Named President of the Atlantic Metropolitan Hockey League (AMHL) in 1993, a position he held until 2012, Hefferan has held several volunteer and elected positions in the junior hockey ranks and with USA Hockey including being named Chairman of Junior National Championships in 1994, serving as Director At-Large, a position he held from 1997 through 2006 and then was named District Director in 2015. He has served on the USA Hockey Governance and Strategic Planning Committees, the Marketing and Junior Councils, Super Site Committee and Super League Task Force, along with Developing programs for membership growth and new marketing inventory.
In 2012 Hefferan was named by the New Jersey Devils as the recipient of the Dr. John J. McMullen Award for service to New Jersey Amateur Hockey.