{"id":72941,"date":"2016-10-13T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=72941"},"modified":"2016-10-13T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:33:15","slug":"middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Atlantic Conferences announces men’s and women’s D-III hockey for 2017-18 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"middle-atlantic-conference-logo-720x500\"<\/a>The Middle Atlantic Conferences announced Thursday that the conference will sponsor three new varsity sports beginning the 2017-18 season, including men’s and women’s hockey.<\/p>\n

Conference bylaws require that at least five of the conference’s member institutions offer a particular sport before it may become a conference-sponsored sport.<\/p>\n

“The MAC is committed to being a national leader in expanding student opportunities for sport participation,” said Dr. Kent C. Trachte, chair of MAC Executive Committee and president of Lycoming College, in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Middle Atlantic Conferences is comprised of three conferences known as the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC), Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth (MAC Commonwealth) and Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom (MAC Freedom).<\/p>\n

Men’s and women’s hockey will compete in the MAC for a conference title.<\/p>\n

The five institutions set to sponsor men’s and women’s hockey for the 2017-18 inaugural season are King’s, Lebanon Valley, Manhattanville, Stevenson and Wilkes.<\/p>\n

Manhattanville has sponsored men’s and women’s hockey since the 1999-2000 season, with the men competing in NCAA Division III since 1999 and the women joining during the NCAA Division III’s inaugural season of women’s hockey in 2001-02.<\/p>\n

The Lebanon Valley men’s program also began in 1999-2000 competing in NCAA Division III until the 2009-10 season. The Dutchmen will move back into NCAA Division III during the 2016-17 season after competing as a club team in ACHA Division I from 2010 to 2016. Lebanon Valley’s women’s program opens its inaugural season in 2016-17.<\/p>\n

Stevenson’s women’s program began competing in 2012-13 in NCAA Division III. The Mustangs’ men’s program begins its inaugural season in 2016-17.<\/p>\n

King’s and Wilkes both officially announced the addition of men’s of women’s hockey during the 2016 calendar year, and will both play its first season in 2017-18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Middle Atlantic Conferences announced Thursday that the conference will sponsor three new varsity sports beginning the 2017-18 season, including men’s and women’s hockey. Conference bylaws require that at least five of the conference’s member institutions offer a particular sport before it may become a conference-sponsored sport. “The MAC is committed to being a national […]<\/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":"\nMiddle Atlantic Conferences announces men's and women's D-III hockey for 2017-18 season - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Middle Atlantic Conferences announced Thursday that the conference will sponsor three new varsity sports beginning the 2017-18 season, including men's\" \/>\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\/72941\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Middle Atlantic Conferences announces men's and women's D-III hockey for 2017-18 season - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Middle Atlantic Conferences announced Thursday that the conference will sponsor three new varsity sports beginning the 2017-18 season, including men's\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72941\" \/>\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=\"2016-10-13T17:33:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/uscho_featured-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matt Mackinder\" \/>\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=\"Matt Mackinder\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/\",\"name\":\"Middle Atlantic Conferences announces men's and women's D-III hockey for 2017-18 season - College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-10-13T17:33:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-10-13T17:33:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/04922fb89db173792f6f75c37ab66fc1\"},\"description\":\"The Middle Atlantic Conferences announced Thursday that the conference will sponsor three new varsity sports beginning the 2017-18 season, including men's\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg\",\"width\":1175,\"height\":763},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Middle Atlantic Conferences announces men’s and women’s D-III hockey for 2017-18 season\"}]},{\"@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\/04922fb89db173792f6f75c37ab66fc1\",\"name\":\"Matt Mackinder\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/b056bce2833d30476a5c141f6456941a\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e7cb54c63a0c3d2648a18d1bd29bd1ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e7cb54c63a0c3d2648a18d1bd29bd1ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Matt Mackinder\"},\"description\":\"Managing Editor Matt Mackinder has been moving up the USCHO ladder since 1999. He was the arena reporter for Wayne State for the duration of the team's existence (1999-2008), was also the CHA Correspondent from 2005-2010 and is now the site's managing editor.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/author\/matt-mackinder\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Middle Atlantic Conferences announces men's and women's D-III hockey for 2017-18 season - College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"The Middle Atlantic Conferences announced Thursday that the conference will sponsor three new varsity sports beginning the 2017-18 season, including men's","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\/72941","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Middle Atlantic Conferences announces men's and women's D-III hockey for 2017-18 season - College Hockey | USCHO.com","og_description":"The Middle Atlantic Conferences announced Thursday that the conference will sponsor three new varsity sports beginning the 2017-18 season, including men's","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72941","og_site_name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/","article_published_time":"2016-10-13T17:33:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/uscho_featured-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Matt Mackinder","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@USCHO","twitter_site":"@USCHO","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matt Mackinder","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/","name":"Middle Atlantic Conferences announces men's and women's D-III hockey for 2017-18 season - College Hockey | USCHO.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg","datePublished":"2016-10-13T17:33:15+00:00","dateModified":"2016-10-13T17:33:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/04922fb89db173792f6f75c37ab66fc1"},"description":"The Middle Atlantic Conferences announced Thursday that the conference will sponsor three new varsity sports beginning the 2017-18 season, including men's","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg","width":1175,"height":763},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/10\/13\/middle-atlantic-conferences-announces-mens-and-womens-d-iii-hockey-for-2017-18-season\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Middle Atlantic Conferences announces men’s and women’s D-III hockey for 2017-18 season"}]},{"@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\/04922fb89db173792f6f75c37ab66fc1","name":"Matt Mackinder","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/b056bce2833d30476a5c141f6456941a","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e7cb54c63a0c3d2648a18d1bd29bd1ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e7cb54c63a0c3d2648a18d1bd29bd1ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Matt Mackinder"},"description":"Managing Editor Matt Mackinder has been moving up the USCHO ladder since 1999. He was the arena reporter for Wayne State for the duration of the team's existence (1999-2008), was also the CHA Correspondent from 2005-2010 and is now the site's managing editor.","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/author\/matt-mackinder\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72941"}],"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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72941"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=72941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}