{"id":26377,"date":"2004-03-22T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2004\/03\/22\/rpi-moving-womens-program-to-di-in-2005\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:55:39","slug":"rpi-moving-womens-program-to-di-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2004\/03\/22\/rpi-moving-womens-program-to-di-in-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"RPI Moving Women’s Program to D-I in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rensselaer president Shirley Ann Jackson has announced the timeline for the school’s elevation of the women’s ice hockey program to the Division I level. After one more season at Division III, the Engineers will move up to Division I beginning in 2005-06. That team, which will feature scholarship players for the first time, will compete as an independent.<\/p>\n
Rensselaer expects to join the ECAC beginning in the 2006-07 season. By the 2008-09 campaign, the program will be fully funded with 18 scholarships and a complete coaching and support staff.<\/p>\n
“Elevating the women’s ice hockey program to Division I will build on Rensselaer’s great hockey tradition,” said Jackson. “This is an exciting transition for our women’s ice hockey program, at a pace which allows us to build a team that can compete at the highest level.”<\/p>\n
Plans for the women’s ice hockey team to be elevated to Division I were originally announced by Jackson on Jan. 12. Rensselaer’s Board of Trustees recently approved the timeline announced today.<\/p>\n
“We are extremely excited about the direction we are headed,” said Rensselaer athletic director Ken Ralph. “This timeline will allow our program to make a smooth transition into a very competitive environment. It is our goal to minimize the growing pains and to continue to have success on the ice.”<\/p>\n
This season, the nationally ranked Engineers, who are coached by John Burke, posted a 19-5-3 overall record and a 13-3-1 mark in the ECAC East. RPI, which was 2-1-2 against Division I opponents, advanced to the ECAC East tournament final for the second straight year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rensselaer president Shirley Ann Jackson has announced the timeline for the school’s elevation of the women’s ice hockey program to the Division I level. After one more season at Division III, the Engineers will move up to Division I beginning in 2005-06. That team, which will feature scholarship players for the first time, will compete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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