NY Times on HC women's ice hockey
Feb 21, 2019 16:52:23 GMT -5
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Holy Cross Coach Peter Van Buskirk, left, is retiring after this season and will be replaced by Katie Lachapelle, right.CreditGretchen Ertl for The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/sports/hockey/holy-cross.html
Athletic Director Nate Pine said it had always bothered him that women’s ice hockey was the only sport of 27 at Holy Cross that was not playing in Division I. And when Holy Cross’s former league, the New England Hockey Conference, decided it wanted only Division III institutions as members, the college began looking for a new hockey home.
Pine, who left Holy Cross in January to become the athletic director at Air Force, approached the Hockey East commissioner, Joe Bertagna, whose league had an uneven number of women’s teams, nine, including top programs like Northeastern, Boston College and Boston University.
Holy Cross, with fewer than 3,000 students, committed to providing additional financial support for the program, and in May 2017 Hockey East announced that the Crusaders would join the league for the 2018-19 season
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What this season isn’t providing in victories, it is providing in perspective, as well as an appreciation for the course the team is charting for the future.
“I look at hockey so much different now,” Girard, one of the senior captains, said. “I enjoy the competition every time we play. I wouldn’t trade this for the world.”
Pine, who left Holy Cross in January to become the athletic director at Air Force, approached the Hockey East commissioner, Joe Bertagna, whose league had an uneven number of women’s teams, nine, including top programs like Northeastern, Boston College and Boston University.
Holy Cross, with fewer than 3,000 students, committed to providing additional financial support for the program, and in May 2017 Hockey East announced that the Crusaders would join the league for the 2018-19 season
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What this season isn’t providing in victories, it is providing in perspective, as well as an appreciation for the course the team is charting for the future.
“I look at hockey so much different now,” Girard, one of the senior captains, said. “I enjoy the competition every time we play. I wouldn’t trade this for the world.”
Holy Cross Coach Peter Van Buskirk, left, is retiring after this season and will be replaced by Katie Lachapelle, right.CreditGretchen Ertl for The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/sports/hockey/holy-cross.html
