Working with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Girls’ and Women’s Hockey Inc., and the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA), the University of Alaska Women’s Ice Hockey Club has succeeded in bringing collegiate women’s hockey to Alaska!   The Alaska Nanooks Women’s Hockey will be the first women’s collegiate team in the state to compete in the ACHA.  Alaska has developed a number of quality female players that have played, or are now playing, at every level of collegiate hockey.  Developing a Nanooks Women’s Hockey team at UAF is an effort to provide talented female hockey players the opportunity to play collegiate hockey in Alaska. 

For its inaugural 2009-2010 season, the team will compete at the Division 2 level as an independent.  Some of the teams in the ACHA’s D2 division include the following universities: University of Minnesota-Duluth, Iowa State University, University of Maryland, University of Nebraska, North Dakota State University, University of Southern California and the University of Virginia.

Go Nanooks!