{"id":76917,"date":"2015-07-13T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=76917"},"modified":"2015-07-16T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T03:22:13","slug":"hockey-club-to-start-play-at-uj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=76917","title":{"rendered":"Hockey club to start play at UJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamestown (CSi) The University of Jamestown is advertising for a hockey coach, as the University plans to add a club hockey team to begin play in the 2016-17 school year.<\/p>\n

After hiring the coach, UJ hopes to begin recruiting players for the 2016-17 season. Athletic director Sean Johnson was out of the country and unavailable for comment, and other school officials declined comment.<\/p>\n

\"UJhockeyLogo\"<\/a>The university plans to hold a press conference on the new hockey program.<\/p>\n

The team will play in the American College Hockey Association (ACHA) at the Division I level.<\/p>\n

Other ACHA Division I teams include Minot State and North Dakota State. Minot State, who could potentially serve as a travel partner for Jamestown, won the ACHA Division I national championship in 2012-13.<\/p>\n

Central Oklahoma is the reigning ACHA D-I national champ, beating Stony Brook University (N.Y.) in the championship game in March in Michigan. Arizona State was the 2014 champion.<\/p>\n

Other notable schools that complete at the ACHA Division I level include Iowa State, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Illinois, Colorado, Colorado State, Syracuse, Arizona, and Navy among others.<\/p>\n

The ACHA, established in 1991, currently has three men’s and two women’s divisions and includes approximately 450 teams in the U.S. Club teams do not offer athletic scholarships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown (CSi) The University of Jamestown is advertising for a hockey coach, as the University plans to add a club hockey team to begin play in the 2016-17 school year. After hiring the coach, UJ hopes to begin recruiting players for the 2016-17 season. Athletic director Sean Johnson was out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76917"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77147,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76917\/revisions\/77147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}