{"id":56851,"date":"2014-03-04T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=56851"},"modified":"2014-03-03T22:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T04:15:34","slug":"the-sound-of-victory-the-tunes-that-get-cranked-up-in-winning-locker-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/04\/the-sound-of-victory-the-tunes-that-get-cranked-up-in-winning-locker-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of victory: The tunes that get cranked up in winning locker rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boston College players turned the locker room into a dance floor when the music went up after winning the 2012 national championship in Tampa (photo: Melissa Wade).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Put yourself in my shoes for a moment.<\/p>\n

Five or six minutes have passed since a hockey game ended, and here you are, media credential attached to a lanyard around your neck, standing in the hallway outside the dressing room of one of the teams as you wait to conduct postgame interviews with coaches and players.<\/p>\n

You’re set to speak with personnel from the winning team, but there’s the generally agreed-upon 10-minute cooling-off period to endure first. We’re up to seven or eight now, and all of a sudden, rumbling right through the bricks and mortar dividing you from the victors, you hear music.<\/p>\n

It’s what’s known as a team’s win song, and it’s not often you’ll find two teams blaring the same one in the same season.<\/p>\n

Out with the old and in with the new …<\/h4>\n

They change each year, in fact, no matter what. Even if a team goes undefeated and untied, as Minnesota’s women’s team did in its 2012-13 campaign en route to winning the Gophers’ fifth national championship, a new win song is introduced ahead of the following season.<\/p>\n

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Listen in<\/h4>\n

Listen to the songs referenced in this story here:<\/p>\n