College hockey most often refers to the American hockey competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. There are 3 national divisions each having many conferences, and supporting both mens and womens teams. The Frozen Four is the trademarked name of the final two rounds of the NCAA Division I championship of ice hockey in the USA. Schools advance in a single-elimination tournament from four regional sites to a single site, where the national semifinals and final game are played. The NCAA started a Women's Frozen Four beginning in the 2000-01 season. Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round disc called a puck, into the opponents net or goal, using a stick, known as a hockey stick. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A or N-C-Two-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... NCAA sponsors a championship tournament in ice hockey. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... NCAA sponsors a championship tournament in ice hockey. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
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Defenseman Sweatt, who currently is playing in the American Hockey League and was unable to attend the ceremony, was named winner of the annual Steve Ebert Award, which recognizes a combination of dedication, desire, ability and sportsmanship, as well as the Paul Markovich Award as the team’s top student.
The Huskies, one of the hottest teams in all of collegehockey the last two months, needed just 39 seconds of overtime to claim a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over Colorado College in Game 1 of their best-of-three first-round WCHA playoff series.
Three members of the Colorado Collegehockey team – senior defenseman/team co-captain Lee Sweatt, junior left wing Scott McCulloch and sophomore defenseman Jake Gannon – are among 49 Western Collegiate Hockey Association players named this week as recipients of the league’s prestigious Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2006-07 season.
The home of the national champs is home to a pair of good collegehockey articles this morning: a look at the impact of the new NHL CBA on the college game and a notebook leading with the WCHA's decision to retain its current video replay system.
Ray Shero and Peter Chiarelli bring collegehockey backgrounds and impressive credentials as assistant general managers to their first NHL GM positions, as they were hired in Pittsburgh and Boston this week.
Among the former collegehockey players that are success stories in this spring's Stanley Cup Playoffs is Shawn Horcoff, the 99th overall draft pick by the Oilers who has become one of their leaders at both ends of the ice.