Black hockey MIAC representation takes center ice as St. Olaf senior Kelijah McElroy reflects on his collegiate career and inspiring the next generation.
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Gopher hockey forward ‘just an athletic guy’
Javon Moore is making history in Gopher hockey as the program’s second Black men’s player while building toward an NHL future.
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Rare Black hockey forward started young
Hamline freshman Nina Thorson is making history and scoring goals in her first collegiate hockey season.
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St. Thomas hockey transfer likes being closer to home
Before the 1970s, hockey uniform numbers typically ranged from 1 to 31 or so, rarely past number 35. Nowadays they are like a Jackie Wilson song: They’ve gone higher and higher. Charlie Schoen wears No. 82, the highest number on St. Thomas men’s hockey team this season. After the team’s first-ever game at Lee & […]
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St. Thomas boasts college hockey’s only Black assistant coach
St. Thomas assistant coach Leon Hayward reflects on his 20-year coaching journey and his status as the only Black assistant coach in college hockey, helping lead the Tommies through a successful DI transition.
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Cost cited as obstacle to hockey diversity
Colorado College senior goalie Kaiden Mbereko is an established star in the nets. He is one of four team captains on this season’s Tigers squad. “We’re all going to have each other’s backs and obviously have our teammates’ backs,” said the 5’11” Mbereko, a business, economics and sociology major from Aspen, Colo. One of the […]
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New Tommies digs crowns DI status
St. Thomas opens its first Division I season with the debut of Lee & Penny Anderson Arena, a new 253,000-square-foot complex for basketball and hockey that also promises community access and renewed focus on diversity in athletics.
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College hockey undergoing ‘significant transformation’
‘Obviously hockey struggles with its diversity numbers.’
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Tennessee State becomes first HBCU to field men’s hockey
Tennessee State University announced that it plans to have a hockey team next year, becoming the first HBCU to do this.
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Meet Minnesota’s only Black college hockey players
Meet Minnesota’s only Black college hockey players Kensie Malone and Crystalyn Hengler.