{"id":132399,"date":"2022-02-10T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=132399"},"modified":"2022-02-09T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:30:12","slug":"this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving ‘we\u2019re an entity that can help people’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Paul Jerrard is in his fifth season on the Omaha coaching staff (photo: Omaha Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today marks one year since the nationwide College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative was publicly announced, and the NCHC has proudly maintained its involvement.<\/p>\n

Omaha assistant coach Paul Jerrard has been a committee member since the initiative\u2019s creation. Outgoing NCHC commissioner Josh Fenton has stayed on as a working group leadership member while he transitions toward his new role as commissioner of the Summit League.<\/p>\n

Committee members, including players, coaches and administrators from schools across nine conferences, typically meet once a month over Zoom. Their next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 16, and the group is planning to soon launch a service announcement campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of short storytelling, and getting to know people,\u201d Jerrard said of the group\u2019s meetings. \u201cWe\u2019re also now in the process of hopefully, in the next little bit here, putting out some video content into the college hockey world about who we are and what we stand for.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing some work behind the scenes, even though it\u2019s difficult with everyone\u2019s schedules, and people going here, there and everywhere. To get times to sit down and have those meetings to get stuff done is a process, but we\u2019re feeling good about what we\u2019ve done and what we\u2019re looking forward to getting out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several committee members have shared their stories through media outlets. For example, former North Dakota forward and current San Jose Sharks forward Jasper Weatherby in 2020 spoke with the Grand Forks Herald<\/em><\/a> about growing up with a Black adopted brother from Costa Rica, who was found to be a descendant of an enslaved Nigerian taken to Jamaica.<\/p>\n

Initiative members have also worked with RISE, a national organization that promotes equality at all levels of sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did some workshops with them in our previous meetings, going into last spring,\u201d Jerrard said. \u201cThat was really neat and educational, especially for people of color, like myself, who have grown up in that world with some of the things, microaggressions, that happen on a daily basis that people don\u2019t deem as racist, but really they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerrard also praised Omaha\u2019s players for backing College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith our team, we have some guys that have been very interested in hot-button topics, like after (the 2020 murder of) George Floyd, and wanting to do something,\u201d Jerrard said. \u201cWe have guys on our team who are very supportive, and our leadership group in our team is good about getting involved in some of the things and letting people know that support is there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re letting the college hockey world know that we\u2019re out there, and that we\u2019re an entity that can help people that have diversity and inclusion issues by helping them grow by sharing our stories. When something bad happens to people, it\u2019s comforting to know that there are people who might have been in similar situations that can help other people out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative, which lists many educational resources on its website<\/a>, continues to move in the right direction. That will help ensure the group\u2019s success grows here in its second year, and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re meeting people, feeling people out and growing our networks,\u201d Jerrard said. \u201cWe\u2019re making some progress, but we want our progress to be lasting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks one year since the nationwide College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative was publicly announced, and the NCHC has proudly maintained its involvement. Omaha assistant coach Paul Jerrard has been a committee member since the initiative\u2019s creation. Outgoing NCHC commissioner Josh Fenton has stayed on as a working group leadership member while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":132400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[812],"coauthors":[810],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThis Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving 'we\u2019re an entity that can help people' - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today marks one year since the nationwide College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative was publicly announced, and the NCHC has proudly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132399\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving 'we\u2019re an entity that can help people' - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today marks one year since the nationwide College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative was publicly announced, and the NCHC has proudly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132399\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-10T20:00:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-10T04:30:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jerrard_omaha2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"931\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"562\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matthew Semisch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matthew Semisch\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/\",\"name\":\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving 'we\u2019re an entity that can help people' - College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jerrard_omaha2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-10T20:00:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-10T04:30:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae\"},\"description\":\"Today marks one year since the nationwide College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative was publicly announced, and the NCHC has proudly\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jerrard_omaha2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jerrard_omaha2.jpg\",\"width\":931,\"height\":562,\"caption\":\"Paul Jerrard is in his fifth season on the Omaha coaching staff (photo: Omaha Athletics).\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving ‘we\u2019re an entity that can help people’\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/\",\"name\":\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"description\":\"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae\",\"name\":\"Matthew Semisch\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/800654cc217d997dd53c63231da54899\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Matthew Semisch\"},\"description\":\"NCHC Columnist Matthew Semisch joined USCHO in 2007 as a arena reporter covering Omaha. He later became a WCHA columnist for USCHO before taking a similar role covering the NCHC. He currently works as the sports editor at the Bottineau Courant in Bottineau, N.D.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/author\/msemisch\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving 'we\u2019re an entity that can help people' - College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"Today marks one year since the nationwide College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative was publicly announced, and the NCHC has proudly","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132399","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving 'we\u2019re an entity that can help people' - College Hockey | USCHO.com","og_description":"Today marks one year since the nationwide College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative was publicly announced, and the NCHC has proudly","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132399","og_site_name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/","article_published_time":"2022-02-10T20:00:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-02-10T04:30:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":931,"height":562,"url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jerrard_omaha2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matthew Semisch","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@USCHO","twitter_site":"@USCHO","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matthew Semisch","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/","name":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving 'we\u2019re an entity that can help people' - College Hockey | USCHO.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jerrard_omaha2.jpg","datePublished":"2022-02-10T20:00:51+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-10T04:30:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae"},"description":"Today marks one year since the nationwide College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative was publicly announced, and the NCHC has proudly","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jerrard_omaha2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jerrard_omaha2.jpg","width":931,"height":562,"caption":"Paul Jerrard is in his fifth season on the Omaha coaching staff (photo: Omaha Athletics)."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/10\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-for-omaha-assistant-jerrard-college-hockey-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiative-proving-were-an-entity-that-can-help-people\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: For Omaha assistant Jerrard, College Hockey for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative proving ‘we\u2019re an entity that can help people’"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/","name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae","name":"Matthew Semisch","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/800654cc217d997dd53c63231da54899","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Matthew Semisch"},"description":"NCHC Columnist Matthew Semisch joined USCHO in 2007 as a arena reporter covering Omaha. He later became a WCHA columnist for USCHO before taking a similar role covering the NCHC. He currently works as the sports editor at the Bottineau Courant in Bottineau, N.D.","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/author\/msemisch\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132401,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132399\/revisions\/132401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=132399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}