Additional College Hockey Information

NCAA Division I Hockey
NCAA Division I Hockey Champions
NCAA Division I Award Winners
NCAA Division III Hockey
NCAA Club Hockey
Canadian USPORTS (University) and College Mens Hockey
NCAA Division I Women's Hockey
Canadian University Women's Hockey

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference operating over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a women's hockey-only conference. The Mens portion of the conference was dropped after the 2020-21 season. The league was founded in 1951 as the Midwest Collegiate Hockey League (MCHL), then was known as the Western Intercollegiate Hockey League (WIHL) until 1958, and finally as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in 1959.

College Hockey America (CHA) is a women’s college ice hockey conference, participating in the NCAA’s Division I as a hockey-only conference.The conference began as a men's hockey conference in 1999, and added women's competition in 2002. After several of its member schools dropped the sport or moved to other conferences, the men's side of CHA folded after the 2009–10 season. CHA remains in operation as a women-only conference.

New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) formed in 2017 as a scheduling alliance between the sport's six then-existing National Collegiate (Division I/II) independents, all located in New England. With the conference membership at six for 2019–20 season, the NCAA officially approved the NEWHA as a Division I conference. There would be no independent programs in that season, since the NEWHA membership included all of the previous National Collegiate independents. The NEWHA received its first automatic NCAA tournament berth in 2021–22.

ECAC Hockey is a college athletic conference that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College A thletic Conference until 2004. The ECAC Hockey League was founded in 1962.

The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) began sponsoring an invitational women's tournament in 1985. ECAC teams began playing an informal regular season schedule in the 1988–89 season, with the conference officially sponsoring women's hockey beginning in the 1993–94 season. Twenty-four different teams have called the ECAC home in their history.

Hockey East Association is a college athletic conference which operates in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. Hockey East came into existence in 1984 for men's hockey, when most of its current members split apart from what is today known as ECAC Hockey. Hockey East is a college athletic conference which operates primarily in New England, and features men's and women's competition. It has emerged as one of the top women’s ice hockey conferences in United States.

The NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Championship is a single game elimination tournament that determines the collegiate national champion. The winners of the Division I conference championships receive automatic bids to participate in the NCAA Championship. The tournament begins with initial games played at top seeded sites culminating with the semi-finals and finals played at a single site.

NCAA Division I Champions

Each year the NCAA Division I Hockey recognizes players and coaches at the end of the season.

NCAA Award Winners