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:
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Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
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Brown University, Providence, RI #
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Colby College, Waterville, ME
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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY #
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Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH #
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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA #
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University of Maine, Orono, ME
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University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
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Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY (starting in '98)
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA
(
see this page too)
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ #
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Providence College, Providence, RI
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St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
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Yale University, New Haven, CT #
# ==
ivy league
Past ECAC Tournament Champions:
- 1997 Northeastern
- 1996 New Hampshire
- 1995 Providence
- 1994 Providence
- 1993 Providence
- 1992 Providence
- 1991 New Hampshire
- 1990 New Hampshire
- 1989 Northeastern
- 1988 Northeastern
- 1987 New Hampshire
- 1986 New Hampshire
- 1985 Providence
- 1984 Providence
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:
- 1997 Middlebury
- 1996 Middlebury
Independent Varsity
The following universities are varsity teams that are not
associated with a particular conference:
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.
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
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Augsburg College, Minneapolis
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Carleton College, Northfield
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Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter
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Mankato State University, Mankato
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University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth
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University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
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College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph
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College of St. Catherine, St. Paul
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St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud
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St. Mary's University, Winona
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St. Olaf College, Northfield
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University of St. Thomas, St. Paul
(old club page)
Wisconsin
Iowa
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Iowa State University, Ames
* == 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:
- 1998 Mankato State
- 1997 Augsburg College
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.
- Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
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University of Illinois, IL (B Team)
- Lake Forest College, Waukegan, IL
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Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Ohio State University, Columbus, OH #
- Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI
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University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (white team)
# == 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:
- North Country, 1997 (Cambridge, MA)
- Ohio State, 1995 (Troy, NY)
- RPI, 1994 (Rensselaer)
- Boston College, 1992
Past Club Championship Details:
- TBA won the 1998 All-East Club Championship (held at Clarkson).
- North Country Community College won the 1997 All-East Club
Championship (held at MIT). They defeated Connecticut College
by a score of 11-0.
- North Country Community College won the 1997 Women's Collegiate Club
Championships hosted by the Ohio State University (in Columbus, Ohio).
They defeated Ohio State University by a score of 6-2 in the final round.
- The 1995 Collegiate Club Championship was held in New York,
and was won by Ohio State University.
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (now an ECAC Alliance Varsity program)
hosted the 1994 Collegiate Club Championship, which was won by RPI.
- Boston College won the 1992 Collegiate Club Championship, by
defeating the University of Maine.
East Teams:
- Boston University, Boston, MA
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Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
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Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
(or the unoffical page)
- University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA
- U-Mass Amherst, Amherst, MA
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
- Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA
- North County Community, Saranac Lake, NY
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Penn State University, State College, PA
- Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
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Smith College, Northampton, MA
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Wheaton College, Norton, MA
- William Smith College, Geneva, NY
West Teams:
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University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO
(new page)
- Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
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University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL (white team)
- Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- Washington State University, WA
- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (team no longer exists for 96/97)
South Teams:
# == will be a varsity team for the 1998-1999 season.
New Club/Varsity Teams
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The
University of Wisconsin - Madison will add a varsity team, starting
in the 1999-2000 season.
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The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, has decided to
start a women's hock ey program in the fall of 1998. Tom Osiecki has
been selected as head coach. He has co ached at Burnsville High
School, from 1966-90 with the boy's program, and from 1995-97 he
coached the girl's hockey program.
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Hockey is a club sport at Washington State University, and we
are looking forward to starting a womens varsity team for the
1998-99 season.
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Division III Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York, declared
varsity status for the 1998-99 season.
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Union College just declared Division Varsity for the Fall 1998.
Coach to be hired by July 1998.
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As far as women's teams going varsity, there is a 95% chance that
women's hockey, along with men's soccer, will be going varsity at the
Unviersity of Michigan for the 1999-2000 season. This was
discussed at an athletic department meeting a couple months ago, and
they voted to go ahead with it, but it's pending the approval of
another committee. Apparantly, though, the second committe is little
more than a rubber stamp, and it's almost definately going to happen.
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"Women's ice hockey will achieve varsity status at the University of
Minnesota-Duluth by the fall of 1999, chancellor Kathryn A. Martin
announced Wednesday (Sept. 10). The program, to be placed in NCAA
Division I, will compete at the club level for the next two seasons. A
head coach is expected to be hired within a year. According to the
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Martin said, "Adding women's hockey will give
women athletes at UMD an opportunity to compete at the varsity level in
the fastest growing sport in Minnesota." A women's team at Minnesota's
Twin Cities campus begins varsity play this year." -
Minnesota-Duluth Adds Women's Ice Hockey, Sept 11, 97
Candidates for the
UMD coaching job
have been narrow down to Julie Healy and Shannon Miller.
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The
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point is a solid club team that
will be a fine addition to the MCWHA league next year (1998-99 season)
as a full-time member.
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Bemidji State (Bemidji, Minnesota)
just declared varsity status for the 1999-2000 season as a
Division II School.
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UW-Superior (Northern Wisconsin) has declared Varsity status for the
1998-99 season and are inches away from hiring a new coach. Division III
school. Update: They have just hired Tracy Majeske has head
coach! They have a web page for the team
here.
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Manhattanville College
(Purchase, NY) just announced in the NCAA On-Line that they are going
in 1998-99 at the Division III level and are looking for a coach.
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In June 1997, Mankato State University announced that the women's
hockey team will have varsity status beginning in the 1998-99 season.
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The University of Vermont has applied for varsity status and hopes
for the same success as the University of Maine-Orono which has
been granted varsity status for the 1997-98 season. The University
of Southern Maine will go varsity in 1998-99. Ohio State University
has announced that their women's ice hockey team will be varsity in
the 1999-2000 season.
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Beginning in the fall of 1997,
Gustavus Adolphus College, in St. Peter, MN
(a member of the MCWHA) will become a varsity sport.
This brings the total number of teams in Minnesota with a
varsity status to 3. The other two are Augsburg College and the
University of Minnesota. St. Mary's University in Minnesota
is planning to go varsity in the 1998-99 season.
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The University of Florida is starting a women's ice hockey club team
to begin play in the fall of 1997. They are looking for teams to play
against, preferably from the South, but they don't mind traveling.
Please contact Lisa Limper
(lisal@atlantic.net)
to arrange a game.
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In Jaunary 1997,
Colgate University
was granted varsity status by the university. Here is some
more information.
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The University of Southern Maine (USM) has added a new Women's ice
hockey team for the 1997-98 season. The plan is to go varsity for the
1998-99 season and apply to join the ECAC Alliance the same year. A
new arena is being built on campus and will be completed in September
of 1997. Please see the college hockey directory for contact information.
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The ECAC has announced three new women's programs to begin play. The
ECAC Alliance will add Connecticut College in 1997-98, followed by
Bates (ME) and Sacred Heart (CT) in 1998-99.
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Iowa State University started a club in the 1995-1996 season. They are
looking to schedule games with anyone who can travel to Ames, IA. They
will travel within 5 to 6 hours at the most at this time. Due to it
being a new club, travel funds are very hard to come by this year, so
if you can come to Ames to play them it would be great. Contact Sue
Marino and Wendy Martling at 515-292-0081, email addresses:
smarino@iastate.edu and wmartlin@iastate.edu or joan263415.
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Chatham College in Pittsburgh, who started a club hockey team
in the 1996-97 season, will be going varsity (Div III) in the
1997-98 season. More information can be obtained from
assistant coach
Susan Helene Gottfried. - new for the 1996-97 season.
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Clarkson University - new club team for the 1995-96 season.
- Mount Holyoke College - new for the 1996-97 season.
- Niagara University - new for the 1996-97 season.
Here is some information about Niagara University
that was provided by Don Page
(dpage@inferno.fhci.edu.on.ca)
on June 5, 1996:
"A new program is to commence at Niagara University for women's ice
hockey. The plan is for a club team to start up in the fall of 1997 and
for the team to join the NCAA Division 1 ranks in 1998 (becoming a
varsity sport in the fall of 1998). The university
has given signs of making a very legitimate move to developing a
quality program. A new twin ice surface facility has just been
completed. The men's program has just started up and the women's
program is to follow immediately behind. It seems unusual for the
facility to be completed prior to the teams being established but they
have constructed a very nice facility with two Olympic size ice
surfaces right on campus. The administration is hoping to finalize the
coaching position by the end of June 1996."
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Union College - new for the 1995-96 season.
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
- September 29, 1997
Rick Filighera was introduced today as the coach of UMaine's new
varsity women's ice hockey team. He has been the head coach of the
women's ice hockey team at Rochester Institute of Technology for the
last two years. The team begins its first season as a varsity program
on Nov. 1 with a 1 p.m. game against Sacred Heart at Alfond Arena.
- September 11, 1997
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U.S. College Hockey Online
Women's ice hockey will achieve varsity status at the University of
Minnesota-Duluth by fall 1999, chancellor Kathryn A. Martin announced
Wednesday (Sept. 10). The program, to be placed in NCAA Division I, will
compete at the club level for the next two seasons. A head coach is
expected to be hired within a year. According to the Minneapolis Star
Tribune, Martin said, "Adding women's hockey will give women athletes at
UMD an opportunity to compete at the varsity level in the fastest growing
sport in Minnesota." A women's team at Minnesota's Twin Cities campus
begins varsity play this year.
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).
URL: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andria/french/USA_College.html
