{"id":23464,"date":"1999-04-30T22:43:44","date_gmt":"1999-05-01T03:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1999\/04\/30\/wcha-womens-league-finalized\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:06","slug":"wcha-womens-league-finalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1999\/04\/30\/wcha-womens-league-finalized\/","title":{"rendered":"WCHA Women’s League Finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"
At its annual meetings in Florida on Thursday, the WCHA gave final approval, via a unanimous vote, to the new WCHA women’s league.<\/p>\n
“This is indeed a significant development for the WCHA,” said association chair Darrell Smith. “We are all looking forward to playing a major role in the continuing evolution and development of women’s ice hockey at all levels.”<\/p>\n
Inaugural members of the league are Minnesota State University-Mankato, the Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth, St. Cloud State and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
Bemidji State and Ohio State have been invited to join as well.<\/p>\n
The new league will begin play in the 1999-2000 season with a 24-game conference schedule and subsequent playoff tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At its annual meetings in Florida on Thursday, the WCHA gave final approval, via a unanimous vote, to the new WCHA women’s league. “This is indeed a significant development for the WCHA,” said association chair Darrell Smith. “We are all looking forward to playing a major role in the continuing evolution and development of women’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n