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United States Air Force Academy
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The United States Air Force Academy, is a military academy for officer cadets of the United States Air Force. Its campus is located in the western United States in Colorado, the Academys stated mission is to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become leaders of character, motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation. It is the youngest of the five U. S. service academies, Graduates of the Academys four-year program receive a Bachelor of Science degree, and are commissioned as second lieutenants in the U. S. Air Force. The Academy is also one of the largest tourist attractions in Colorado, admission is extremely competitive, with nominations divided equally among Congressional districts. Recent incoming classes have had about 1,200 cadets, historically, tuition along with room and board are all paid for by the Air Force. Cadets receive a stipend, but incur a commitment to serve a number of years of military service after graduation. All cadets participate in either intercollegiate or intramural athletics, and a character development. Each of the components of the program is intended to give cadets the skills, prior to the Academys establishment, air power advocates had been pushing for a separate Air Force Academy for decades. As early as 1918, Lieutenant Colonel A. J, hanlon wrote, As the Military and Naval Academies are the backbone of the Army and Navy, so must the Aeronautical Academy be the backbone of the Air Service. No service can flourish without some such institution to inculcate into its embryonic officers love of country, proper conception of duty, and highest regard for honor. Mitchells arguments did not gain traction with legislators, and it was not until the late 1940s that the concept of the United States Air Force Academy began to take shape. Support for an air academy got a boost with the National Security Act of 1947 and this was only intended to be a short term fix, however, and disagreements between the services quickly led to the establishment of the Service Academy Board by Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Following the recommendation of the Board, Congress passed legislation in 1954 to begin the construction of the Air Force Academy, the legislation established an advisory commission to determine the site of the new school. Among the panel members were Charles Lindbergh, General Carl Spaatz, and Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon, the original 582 sites considered were winnowed to three, Alton, Illinois, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and the ultimate site at Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott, meanwhile, Air Training Command began developing a detailed curriculum for the Academy program. The early Air Force Academy leadership had the model of West Point and Annapolis in designing a curriculum, faculty. While at Lowry, they were housed in renovated World War II barracks, there were no upper class cadets to train the new cadets, so the Air Force appointed a cadre of Air Training Officers to conduct training. The ATOs were junior officers, many of whom were graduates of West Point, Annapolis and they acted as surrogate upper class cadets until the upper classes could be populated over the next several years
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Atlantic Hockey
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The Atlantic Hockey Conference is a NCAA Mens Division I Ice Hockey conference which operates primarily in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAAs Division I as an ice hockey-only conference, unlike several other college athletic conferences, Atlantic Hockey has no womens division, though it shares some organizational and administrative roles with the womens-only College Hockey America. From 1997 to 2003, Atlantic Hockey was part of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference before the league broke away to stand independently. Iona College,2003 Fairfield University,2003 Quinnipiac University,2005 University of Connecticut,2014 From 1999 to 2003, since 2007, the tournament has been held at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. Additionally they vote to award 7 of the 9 individual trophies to a player and 1 team award at the same time. All individual and team awards have been awarded since Atlantic Hockeys inaugural season in 2003-04
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Cadet Ice Arena
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The Cadet Ice Arena is a 2, 502-seat hockey rink on the grounds of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is home to the Academys Falcon ice hockey team and it was built in 1968, and is part of the Cadet Field House, which also includes Clune Arena. The team now competes in Atlantic Hockey along with Army
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in the east central portion of the state and it is situated on Fountain Creek and is located 60 miles south of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. At 6,035 feet the city stands over 1 mile above sea level, Colorado Springs is situated near the base of one of the most famous American mountains, Pikes Peak, rising above 14,000 feet on the eastern edge of the Southern Rocky Mountains. The city is home to 24 national governing bodies of sport, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Training Center. The city had an population of 456,568 in 2015, ranking as the second most populous city in the state of Colorado, behind Denver. The Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area had an population of 712,327 in 2016. The city covers 194.9 square miles, making it the most extensive municipality in Colorado, Colorado Springs was ranked number five by U. S. News & World Report on the list of 2016 Best Places to Live in the USA. The Ute, Arapaho and Cheyenne peoples were the first to inhabit the area which would become Colorado Springs, part of the territory included in the United States 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the current city area was designated part of the 1854 Kansas Territory. In 1859, after the first local settlement was established, it part of the Jefferson Territory on October 24. Colorado City at the Front Range confluence of Fountain and Camp creeks was formally organized on August 13,1859 during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. It served as the capital of the Colorado Territory from November 5,1861, until August 14,1862, in 1871 the Colorado Springs Company laid out the towns of La Font and Fountain Colony, upstream and downstream respectively, of Colorado City. Within a year, Fountain Colony would be renamed Colorado Springs, the El Paso County seat shifted from Colorado City in 1873 to the Town of Colorado Springs. On December 1,1880, Colorado Springs expanded northward with two annexations, the second period of annexations was during 1889–90, and included Seaveys Addition, West Colorado Springs, East End, and another North End addition. In 1891 the Broadmoor Land Company built the Broadmoor suburb, which included the Broadmoor Casino, and by December 12,1895, by 1898, the city was designated into quadrants by the north-south Cascade Avenue and the east-west Washington/Pikes Peak avenues. From 1899 to 1901 Tesla Experimental Station operated on Knob Hill, alexander Airport north of the city opened in 1925, and in 1927 the original Colorado Springs Municipal Airport land was purchased east of the city. In World War II the United States Army Air Forces leased land adjacent to the municipal airfield and this was only one of several military presences in and around Colorado Springs during the war. In November 1950, Ent Air Force Base was selected as the Cold War headquarters for Air Defense Command. The former WWII Army Air Base, Peterson Field, which had been inactivated at the end of the war, was re-opened in 1951 as a U. S. Air Force base
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2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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The tournament began on March 23,2007, and ended with the championship game on April 7. Michigan State University, coached by Rick Comley, won its national title with a 3–1 victory in the championship game over Boston College. Justin Abdelkader, sophomore forward for Michigan State, was named the Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player with the tournament-winning goal, the NCAA Mens Division I Ice Hockey Championship is a single-elimination tournament featuring 16 teams representing all six Division I conferences in the nation. The Championship Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 16 within four regionals of 4 teams, the winners of the six Division I conference championships receive automatic bids to participate in the NCAA Championship. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas, the number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament. G, Jeff Lerg D, Tyler Howells D, Brian Boyle F, Justin Abdelkader* F, Nathan Gerbe F, archived from the original on 22 March 2008. Official 2008 Mens and Womens Ice Hockey Records Book, NCAA Mens Ice Hockey - NCAA. com
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2008 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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The 2008 NCAA Mens Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 16 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The tournament began on March 28,2008, and ended with the game on April 12. Boston College, coached by Jerry York, won its national title with a 4–1 victory in the championship game over Notre Dame. Nathan Gerbe, junior forward for Boston College, scored five goals in the two games and was named the Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player. The NCAA Mens Division I Ice Hockey Championship is a tournament featuring 16 teams representing all six Division I conferences in the nation. The Championship Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 16 within four regionals of 4 teams, the winners of the six Division I conference championships receive automatic bids to participate in the NCAA Championship. In setting up the tournament, the Championship Committee seeks to ensure competitive equity, financial success, a team serving as the host of a regional is placed within that regional. Number 1 seeds are placed as close to their home site as possible. Conference matchups are avoided in the first round, should five or more teams from one conference make the tournament, the four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. Six teams from the WCHA qualified for the tournament, a record for the number of teams from one conference, the number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament. G, John Muse D, Mike Brennan D, Kyle Lawson F, Kevin Deeth F, Nathan Gerbe* F, archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Specific NCAA Mens Ice Hockey - NCAA. com
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2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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The tournament began on March 27,2009, and ended with the championship game on April 11. Boston University, coached by Jack Parker, won its national title with a 4–3 overtime victory in the championship game over Miami University. The game marked the time the NCAA championship game has gone to overtime. Colby Cohen, sophomore defenseman for Boston University, scored the goal in overtime and was named the Frozen Fours Most Outstanding Player. The 2009 NCAA Mens Division I Ice Hockey Championship was a tournament featuring 16 teams representing all six Division I conferences in the nation. The Championship Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 16 within four regionals of 4 teams, the winners of the six Division I conference championships received automatic bids to participate in the NCAA Championship. In setting up the tournament, the Championship Committee sought to ensure competitive equity, financial success, a team serving as the host of a regional was placed within that regional. Number 1 seeds were placed as close to their home site as possible. The four regionals were named after their geographic areas. C. The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 22,2009, the number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament. ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament, for the fifth consecutive year ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic and ESPN360. Sean Grande & Cap Raeder G, Kieran Millan D, Colby Cohen* D, Kevin Roeder F, Nick Bonino F, Colin Wilson F, Tommy Wingels * Most Outstanding Player NCAA Mens Ice Hockey - NCAA. com
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2011 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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The 2011 NCAA Mens Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 16 schools in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The tournament began on March 25,2011, and ended with the game on April 9. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas, number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament. Note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local, * Denotes overtime periods * Denotes overtime periods * Denotes overtime periods ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the seventh consecutive year ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU, paul, Minnesota Westwood One used exclusive radio rights to air both the semifinals and the championship, AKA the Frozen Four
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2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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The tournament began on March 23,2012 with regional semifinals and ended on April 7 with the national championship game. The Boston College Eagles won their national championship in five years, beating the Ferris State Bulldogs, 4-1. BC won nineteen games to end the season. It is the title for both the program and head coach Jerry York - York previously coached Bowling Green to a championship in 1984. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas, number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament. Note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local, note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local. Note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local, note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local. ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament, for the eighth consecutive year ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU, and ESPN3. They also streamed online via WatchESPN. com
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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NCAA Division I
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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College ice hockey
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College ice hockey is played in Canada and the United States, though leagues outside of North America exist. University hockey is the used for hockey primarily played at four-year institutions. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has conducted national championships for mens ice hockey since 1948, U. S. college hockey players must be deemed eligible for NCAA competition by the NCAA Eligibility Center, a process that examines a student-athletes academic qualifications and amateur status. Players who have participated in the Canadian Hockey League or any professional league are considered ineligible. Mens U. S. college hockey is a system to the National Hockey League. As of the 2010–11 season,30 percent of NHL players had U. S. college hockey experience prior to turning professional and that percentage has been maintained the past three seasons, with a record 301 NHL players coming from college hockey in 2011–12. One hundred thirty-eight colleges and universities sponsor mens ice hockey in the NCAAs three divisions, the NCAA Division I has 60 ice hockey teams as of the 2015–16 season. The NCAA Division I Championship is a 16-team, single-elimination tournament, divided into four, the winner of each regional advances to the Frozen Four to compete for the national championship. For many years,5 teams earned automatic bids through winning conference tournament championships, with the addition of the Big Ten Hockey Conference for the 2013–14 season, the tournament now features 6 automatic qualifiers, and 10 at-large bids. In 2015–16, there were 60 schools competing in Division I, with 59 of them organized into six conferences, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference sponsored D-I mens hockey, but dropped the sport in 2003. The Hobey Baker Memorial Award honors the top player in mens Division I hockey, the Mike Richter Award honors the top goaltender in Division I. The NCAA does not currently sponsor a championship in Division II, as there is only one conference that currently sponsors hockey, several other schools that normally compete in Division II play up to the Division I level in hockey. The NCAA conducted a Division II national championship from 1978 to 1984, the current championship format is an 12-team, single-elimination bracket. Eighty-eight colleges and universities sponsor womens ice hockey in two divisions, National Collegiate and Division III, there are 36 teams in the National Collegiate division. The Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award is awarded annually by USA Hockey to the top player in womens Division I hockey. The most recent school to add varsity womens hockey was Merrimack, University hockey teams in Canada compete in leagues as part of U Sports, the national governing body for Canadian university athletics. U Sports sponsors both mens and womens hockey, like in the United States, teams compete in athletic conferences based on geographical locations of the schools. Unlike the NCAA, U Sports does not award players with athletic scholarships, individual conferences hold postseason tournaments, followed by the round-robin U Sports championship tournament in late March
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NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
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The NCAA Division II Mens Ice Hockey Championship was held from 1978 to 1982 and from 1993 to 1999, but it was discontinued due to a lack of Division II conferences sponsoring ice hockey. The final two rounds of the tournament were first referred to as the Frozen Four in 1999. The NCAA started a Womens Frozen Four beginning with the 2000-01 season, the Hobey Baker Award ceremony, Hockey Humanitarian Award ceremony, and USCHO. com Town Hall Meeting take place annually during Frozen Four weekend. List of NCAA Mens Division I Frozen Four appearances by school National Collegiate Womens Ice Hockey Championship
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Vic Heyliger
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Victor Heyliger was a National Hockey League center and the head coach of the University of Michigan ice hockey team. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he attended the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts and he played for the Chicago Black Hawks in 1938 and 1944, bookending his tenure as coach at the University of Illinois from 1939–43, posting a record of 59–29–4. Returning to Michigan as coach of the Wolverines, he led the team to six NCAA Mens Ice Hockey Championships in his thirteen years from 1944 to 1957,1948,1951,1952,1953,1955,1956. His teams reached the Frozen Four in each of the first ten seasons it was held, in 1954 he received the Spencer Penrose Award from the American Hockey Coaches Association as the University Division Coach of the Year. Heyliger had an overall Michigan record of 228–61–13, after coaching the U. S. national team in 1966, he coached at the United States Air Force Academy from 1966–74, where he was 85–77–3. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in its class of inductees in 1974. He died at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, aged 94, University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor Vic Heyligers biography at Legends of Hockey
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NCAA Division I independent schools (ice hockey)
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NCAA Division I independent schools are teams that compete in NCAA ice hockey but are not members of a conference. There are several current schools who, at one time or another, the Sun Devils moved up from club hockey in the ACHA to full varsity status. Arizona State will start playing a full Division I schedule in 2016–17, the Pioneers moved up from Division III in 2003. Its mens team plays in Atlantic Hockey, which does not sponsor womens hockey, list of NCAA Division I ice hockey programs NCAA Division I independent schools
