May 24, 2013
St. Anselm among schools interested in D1 hockey
Posted on November 15, 2012 | in News | by Mike McMahonAccording to multiple people with close ties to St. Anselm hockey, the Division 2 Hawks are interested in making a move to Division 1 and possible joining the Atlantic Hockey Association.
There has been talk for some time among hockey alumni that St. A’s will at least investigate making the Division 1 move. The Hawks’ athletic director, Kelly Higgins, has previous experience working at Alaska Fairbanks, including helping their transition into the CCHA. He was hired in April and according to the story St. A’s published on his website, he “fell in love with hockey” while at Alaska.
“The alumni, the boosters, the people who are really involved with the program all want to see this move happen,” one person, who requested that he not be named due to his close ties with the program, said. “To me, there is no question that Division 1 hockey would be an incredible success here. We have a great facility, people around the program that love and support hockey, and we have a great base of alumni who are involved. We want to see this happen.”
USCHO’s Chris Lerch reported on Thursday that the conference was talking with four possible replacement schools for when UConn joins Hockey East in 2014-15. Atlantic Hockey commissioner Bob DeGregorio, a former Merrimack AD, told USCHO that the league has talked with St. A’s, Rhode Island, Navy and Alabama-Huntsville.
Hope MC gets some games against them. Any excuse to get up to Manchvegas is welcome.
This is not even close to happening.
The anonymous source, should stay anonymous because he doesn’t know what he is talking about.
any decision made will only be made if there is an option for the women..
right now no option = no deal. its as simple as that
The information is accurate. The key here is they have proposed a self funded team, and have the core donations comitted. Further they have completed a survey that illustrated enough comitment to complete the self funding. The plan does include advancing the womens team in a short period following the mens team, to complete the venture even though as a self funded mens team they would not have need to do so. This is one of several advancment coming to NCAA D1 college hockey over the next decade. This will be good for Atlantic Hockey and over all landscape of hockey.