{"id":69965,"date":"2016-03-14T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=69965"},"modified":"2016-03-14T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T23:28:00","slug":"chatham-university-to-join-mens-division-iii-ranks-for-2017-18-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/03\/14\/chatham-university-to-join-mens-division-iii-ranks-for-2017-18-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatham University to join men’s Division III ranks for 2017-18 season"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chatham University announced Monday the addition of men’s hockey to its roster of NCAA Division III varsity sports for the 2017-18 academic year.<\/p>\n
The school will boast the first D-III men’s hockey team in Pittsburgh and only the fourth program across the entire state when it takes the ice in 2017.<\/p>\n
“In 1996, Chatham was the first college in Pennsylvania to put together an NCAA women’s hockey team,” said Chatham athletic director Leonard Trevino in a statement. “We are excited to build on our proud hockey tradition and once again be the first to bring a D-III hockey team to the Pittsburgh region with the addition of men’s ice hockey.”<\/p>\n
A decision on the conference that the Cougars will compete in is not final. A search for a head coach begins immediately.<\/p>\n
Chatham is a member of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) and offers nine Division III women’s sports and seven men’s sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chatham University announced Monday the addition of men’s hockey to its roster of NCAA Division III varsity sports for the 2017-18 academic year. The school will boast the first D-III men’s hockey team in Pittsburgh and only the fourth program across the entire state when it takes the ice in 2017. “In 1996, Chatham was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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