Starting in the fall of 2022, Maryville will sponsor five ice hockey teams with more than 120 student-athletes expected to compete.
Starting in the fall of 2022, Maryville will sponsor five ice hockey teams with more than 120 student-athletes expected to compete.
Over the last several years, St. Louis has turned into a hockey hotbed rivaling any other city across the country. Maryville University is contributing to this growth with yet another expansion of its hockey program.
Starting in the fall of 2022, Maryville will sponsor five teams at the ACHA levels. For the upcoming 2021-22 season, the Saints will have three teams in the ACHA including Men’s Division 1, Men’s Division 2 and Women’s Division 1. The additional two teams, which will be Men’s Division 3 and Women’s Division 2, will round out Maryville’s growth in the ACHA since the Saints first joined the ACHA in 2018.
Maryville expects to have more than 120 student-athletes, both men and women, playing hockey for the 2022-2023 season when the two additional teams come online.
“The ACHA has provided a tremendous opportunity to grow the game of hockey at Maryville,” said Director of Hockey Operations John Hogan. “Since our hockey program’s inception in 2018, President Mark Lombardi, PhD, and Director of Athletics and Recreation Lonnie Folks, ’82, ’98, have been true advocates in growing hockey at Maryville. They have provided college hockey opportunities for both young men and women who love our game. I don’t think there has ever been a university to add five teams in five years in college hockey. This growth is just one more example of Maryville’s successful mission to inclusively redefine higher education in all areas.”
All Maryville hockey teams will call the Maryville University Hockey Center home. The state-of-the-art facility, located in the Chesterfield Valley, opened in the fall of 2019. Each team will have dedicated storage and locker room space, giving student-athletes at Maryville a true college hockey experience.