Western Collegiate Hockey Association
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association ( WCHA ) is an American university and college sports league, which is mainly located in the Midwest and the western United States. It belongs to the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and is a pure hockey Conference.
By 2006, the team won five consecutive WCHA Hockey Championship NCAA and at the same time seven of the last ten sweeps. The women's teams of Collegiate Hockey Association won all the championships the NCAA since their introduction in 2001.
- 3.1 Men
- 3.2 Women
History
The WCHA was founded in 1951 as " Midwest Collegiate Hockey League " ( MCHL ), but in 1953 the league was renamed " Western Intercollegiate Hockey League " ( Wihl ). Since 1959, the Conference carries the current name. The master of the regular season is awarded the MacNaughton Cup, while the winner of the final round of the Broadmoor Trophy gets awarded.
For the 2013/14 season was followed by a significant restructuring that affected only the area of the NCAA men. The Pennsylvania State University is since 2012 an own Ice Hockey team, so that Wisconsin and Minnesota leaving the WCHA to start together with Penn State, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and the Ohio State University is a new conference in the Big Ten. The latter three were leaving the Central Collegiate Hockey Association ( CCHA ), which was thereupon be dissolved. The remaining of the teams in the CCHA joined together with six teams in the WCHA in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference reassembled. These six were the University of Denver, the Colorado College, the University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of North Dakota and St. Cloud State University. With the departure of these six would be only five teams in the WCHA remained, with a receipt of the Conference with less than six teams had not complied with the statutes. Therefore, we invited the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the University of Alaska Anchorage, the University of Alaska, a Fairbanks, Bowling Green State University, Ferris State University, Northern Michigan University and Lake Superior State University in the Conference. All invited universities told (Bowling Green in 2012, Alabama in 2013, all the other in 2011 ), so that the newly formed WCHA now consists of ten members in the men's section.
Participant
The men's Division currently has ten members, the women's league play with eight teams.
Former participants
- Colorado College (now NCHC ), 1951-2013
- University of Denver (now NCHC ), 1951-2013
- University of Michigan (now the Big Ten ), 1951-1981
- Michigan State University (now the Big Ten ), 1951-1981
- University of Minnesota (now the Big Ten ), 1951-2013
- University of Minnesota Duluth (now NCHC ), 1966-2013
- University of North Dakota (now NCHC ), 1951-2013
- University of Notre Dame (now Hockey East), 1971-1981
- St. Cloud State University (now NCHC ), 1990-2013
- University of Wisconsin -Madison (now the Big Ten ), 1969-2013
Timeline
Master
Women
- 2000: Minnesota - Duluth
- 2001: Minnesota - Duluth
- 2002: Minnesota
- 2003: Minnesota - Duluth
- 2004: Minnesota
- 2005: Minnesota
- 2006: Wisconsin
- 2007: Wisconsin
- 2008: Minnesota - Duluth
- 2009: Wisconsin
- 2010: Minnesota - Duluth
- 2011: Wisconsin
- 2012: Minnesota
- 2013: Minnesota