{"id":24695,"date":"2002-08-01T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2002-08-01T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/08\/01\/college-hockey-america-starts-division-i-womens-league\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:28","slug":"college-hockey-america-starts-division-i-womens-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/08\/01\/college-hockey-america-starts-division-i-womens-league\/","title":{"rendered":"College Hockey America Starts Division I Women’s League"},"content":{"rendered":"
College Hockey America announced the formation of a new four-team Division I women’s hockey league to serve as the counterpart to the men’s league created in 1999. The league will begin play immediately in 2002-03.<\/p>\n
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The inaugural members of the women’s CHA are current men’s CHA members Findlay, Niagara, and Wayne State, as well as Mercyhurst College, whose men’s team plays in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.<\/p>\n
All four schools are within a relatively short drive of each other, with Niagara and Mercyhurst located in western New York and western Pennsylvania respectively, Wayne State in Detroit, and Findlay in Ohio.<\/p>\n