The National Collegiate Athletic Association, (NCAA),
permits each
Div. I Ice Hockey program eighteen scholarships for women and
eighteen
for men. The same ratio applies in Div. II.
There are
sixty Div. I and six Div. II colleges that grant hockey scholarships for men. A total of 1,188. The total number of women's scholarships
available in the NCAA is 558
from thirty one institutions.
Canadian students should be
aware that if you have played in Canadian
Junior Leagues before your high
school graduation year then you will lose one year of NCAA eligibility per year.
The
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) held a men's
national ice hockey championship from 1968 to 1984. The sport was
subsequently dropped as a NAIA sanctioned sport.
Junior College Ice Hockey is a
Div. I only sport and the NJCAA
allows sixteen ice hockey scholarships per school.
Each college can only offer a total of sixteen scholarships, unlike
the NCAA they cannot offer a larger number at
a lower percentage.
Ice Hockey at JUCO level has been dominated by the University of New York,
Canton, (SUNY Canton), which has won an unprecedented fourteen National
Championships.
As well as sponsoring a
summer baseball league, the Durham
Bulls Youth Athletic League also runs a fall soccer league. Weinstein and
Grossman would like to involve other Duke students in the soccer program,
where they could serve as coaches - and possibly as mentors.
Johnson has represented
USA Hockey as a
player in 13 international tournaments, including the U.S. National Team at
the 1998 IIHF (A-Pool) World Championship Qualification Tournament in
Austria. Most notably, he led the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team's gold
medal-winning effort with 11 points, including two goals in the
"Miracle-On-Ice" against the Soviet Union and an assist on the game-winning
goal against Finland in the final contest.