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The women's side of the conference is also known as Women's Hockey East Association (WHEA) and, throughout its history, has exclusively included programs based in New England. The conference is regarded as one of the top women's ice hockey conferences in United States. Boston College Eagles women's ice hockey
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has conducted national championships for men's ice hockey since 1948, and women's ice hockey since 2001. U.S. college hockey players must be deemed eligible for NCAA competition by the NCAA Eligibility Center, a process that examines a student-athlete's academic qualifications and amateur status.
The 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season began in November 2020 and ended with the 2021 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament's championship game at Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pennsylvania on March 20, 2021.
In the first era, teams played 7-on-7 for (typically) 40 minutes and many teams used the same lineup throughout the match. College hockey shifted to the modern 6-on-6 style shortly after World War I with the final recorded 7-on-7 match being played in 1921 (Harvard was the last holdout). About the same time, teams began playing three 15-minute ...
In 1984, the Providence Friars won the inaugural ECAC women's ice hockey championship. In the 1997–98 season, the American Women's College Hockey Alliance (AWCHA) made its debut. It was financed by the United States Olympic Committee. [2] This allowed for the first national women's ice hockey championship to occur, which was won by New Hampshire.
The following is a list of the 64 schools that fielded men's ice hockey teams in NCAA Division I in the most recent 2023–24 season, plus the 44 schools that fielded women's teams in the de facto equivalent of Division I, the NCAA's National Collegiate division.
The 2024 NCAA National Collegiate women's ice hockey tournament was a single-elimination tournament by eleven schools to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. This was the third year the tournament features an expanded field of 11 teams. [ 1 ]
The women's ice hockey program was given the green light to jump directly to the Division I level in July 2020. [3] The women's hockey team joined the WCHA for the 2021–22 season. [4] [5] On May 26, 2021, Robert Morris announced that it was dropping both men's and women's hockey effective immediately. [6]