Le hockey féminin collégial aux États-Unis

More general information and results for Women's College hockey in the USA may also be found in the Women's University Hockey page. The page that you are viewing now primarily contains information about the teams that participate in each league. The championship page lists the collegiate winners by year.

Contact information for most teams that are listed in this page is available through Richard Hungerford's College Hockey Directory. Richard also provides other great college hockey information.

If anyone has information about new teams for next season, or teams that will be in different leagues, please send it to me, and I'll try to keep this page as up-to-date as possible. Thanks in advance.

The USA Hockey web page also has information about Women's College hockey teams.


Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) (Division I)

ECAC Women's Contact: Graeme Bailey ( bailey@math.cornell.edu)

Teams:

# == ivy league

Past ECAC Tournament Champions:


Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Alliance

North Teams:

East Teams:

South Teams:

West Teams:

The Alliance teams are split into four four-team divisions with travel partners who play teams in division twice and out of division once for a 16 game league schedule.

Augsburg College (Minnesota) became the first midwestern school with a VARSITY women's hockey program (beginning in the 95-96 season). The University of Minnesota went varsity in 1997.

Middlebury won the first ECAC Alliance Championship in the 1995-96 season with a 5-0 win over RIT.

With the exception of Bates and Vermont, all teams in the ECAC Alliance now have varsity status. Maine and Connecticut College were granted varsity status for the 1997-98 season.

Here is a link to the ECAC Women's Hockey Alliance 1996-97 Standings and to the 1995-96 Standings.

Past ECAC Alliance Champions:


Independent Varsity

The following universities are varsity teams that are not associated with a particular conference:


Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC)

The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) is forming their own conference for the six varsity women's hockey teams in the MIAC league. These teams are: Augsburg College, Gustavus Adolphus College, College of St. Benedict, College of St. Catherine, St. Mary's University, and University of St. Thomas. These teams should be ready to go for the 1998-99 season. The MIAC website can be found at www.stkate.edu/miac/whockey.html.


Midwestern Collegiate Women's Hockey Alliance (MCWHA)

The Midwestern Collegiate Women's Hockey Alliance started in the 1996-97 season. The league consists of teams from Minnesota (10), Wisconsin (4), Iowa (1). Mankato State won the 1998 Midwest Alliance Championship.

"The University of Minnesota hopes to pick its first varsity coach in October. The new coach will spend this season recruiting, scheduling and helping with the planning of the new rink. Minnesota's varsity will play its first games in Mariucci in 1997. They hope to be in their new "mini-Mariucci" in 1998. This season the Minnesota club team will play in the All-American tourney and the new Midwest Alliance."
-- from USA Today Sports, September 1996

MCWHA Teams:

Minnesota

Wisconsin

Iowa

* == have formally requested their athletic departments for varsity status.
+ == have varsity status for the 1996-1997 season.
@ == have varsity status for the 1997-1998 season.
# == will be a varsity team for the 1998-1999 season.
& == will be a varsity team for the 1999-2000 season.

A note from Richard Hungerford (hungerf@husc.harvard.edu):
"This season the league will have one varsity program at Augsburg while the other teams will be club programs. The MCWHA joins the varsity ECAC League and Alliance to make three college leagues now available to women. A post season tournament between the ECAC Alliance and the Midwest Alliance may be the next step as women's hockey progresses towards a national championship."

Past MCWHA Champions:


US Clubs Teams


Central Collegiate Women's Hockey Association (CCWHA)

The CCWHA is made up of club teams from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The championship for the CCWHA took place at Michigan State on the weekend of February 21-23, 1997. Ohio State University claimed the 1997 CCWHA Championship.

# == will be a varsity team for the 1999-2000 season.

Women's Collegiate Club Championship

Ohio State University hosted the 1997 Women's Collegiate Club Championship. Their goal was to have two teams from the east coast, two teams from the CCWHA (Central Collegiate Womens Hockey Associtation), the Ohio State team, and possibly two teams from the west. The championship was organised by Jen Bradbury (bradbury.5@osu.edu).

There will not be an ECAC Collegiate Club Championship in 1998.


Other US Clubs Teams

The Clarkson University Women's Hockey Club is hosting the 1998 AWCHA All-East Club Championship on February 27, 28, and March 1 1998 in Potsdam, NY. There will not be a 1998 Women's Collegiate Club Championship.

MIT hosted the first club championship for the 1996-97 season. Please visit the 1997 AWCHA All-East Club Championship page for more information. Here is some older information from Jill Depto about the 1997 championship. And here is a quote from USA Today about the 1997 championship:

"The MIT Women's Ice Hockey Club team is organizing the 1997 AWCHA Women's National Collegiate Club Championship. The tournament is tentatively scheduled to take place at Johnson Rink at MIT (Cambridge, Mass) the weekend of March 6-9, 1997. The championship will have an A and B division to accommodate differing levels of play. Some schools will be sending teams in both divisions which indicates the increasing level of participation in the women's college game."
-- from USA Today Sports, September 1996

Here is a link for the 1995 AWCHA Championship tournament that was held in Troy, NY.

Past AWCHA Champions:

Past Club Championship Details:

East Teams:

West Teams:

South Teams:

# == will be a varsity team for the 1998-1999 season.


New Club/Varsity Teams


1995-96 ECAC Season

Here is some information that was provided by Richard Hungerford (hungerf@husc.harvard.edu) (Sept 95) about the ECAC league organisation for the 1995-96 season:

In the 1995-96 season, in the ECAC League 12 teams will not be playing each other twice, but "one and a half times". Meaning 16 games will count in the league. The result is the league is broken into two pods: (Brown, PC, UNH, Colby, Princeton, Yale) and (Northeastern, Harvard, Dartmouth, BC, Cornell St. Lawrence). I know which pod I'd prefer to have the extra game against! The problem of playing home and home games (22 games count) is that many ECAC teams already have commitments to tournaments. So they plan to phase in the 22 games counting over the next couple of years. I thought they might come to that as the schools were going to have to come up with several more weekends of ice time.


News Tidbits


Will there be an NCAA for women's hockey soon?

This information was provided by Richard Hungerford (hungerf@fas.harvard.edu) on May 1st, 1998:

It appears that women's ice hockey has reached 40 varsity teams today. Vermont upgraded its ECAC Alliance club side to a varsity squad today with Dennis Miller continuing as coach.

In recent weeks, Bemidji State became an independent DI varsity side and St. Thomas became a DIII varsity in the new MIAC league.

The result is:
ECAC League: 14 DI varsity sides
ECAC Alliance: 15 DIII varsity sides (only Bates will be a club)
Minnesota Intercollegiate: 6 DIII varsity sides
Independent DI varsities: 3 - Minnesota, Mankato State, Bemidji State
Independent DIII varsities: 2 - Chatham, Wisconsin-Superior

Add that all up and you have the 40 varsity teams we need for an NC$$ National Title!

Get the red flags ready as May Day is upon us!!!


Other Misc. Links for Universities

These pages are general pages for these universities, not specific information about women's hockey.


Cette page est mise à jour par Andria Hunter ( andria@sys.toronto.edu).

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