At the World Junior Championships in the Twin Cities, Team USA defenseman EJ Emery represented the future of hockey through both elite play and growing Black representation.
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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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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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Hockey diversity remains elusive
Michigan defenseman Marshall Warren was the only Black player at this year’s Frozen Four.
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Sports are for everybody
We’re all coming from different walks of life and for us to be here really is about family and friends and the memories we’re making in this game.
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Hockey facing a diversity crisis
Hockey is still one of the Whitest sports around, and racism is deeply embedded in it. Black players are unfairly viewed as outsiders and intruders.
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College hockey commitment to racial diversity reaffirmed
“If a player [of color] growing up aspires to be a coach, and they see our conference or other schools that have hired African American assistant coaches as a path and a route for them [to become coaches], we are on board with that.”