By Cameron Day\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women\u2019s ice hockey will be added as a varsity sport at Hood College in the winter of 2024-2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am very excited to bring a new sport to the winter sports, along with adding numbers to the women\u2019s athletics for Title IX,\u201d Athletic Director Susan Kolb said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the addition of men\u2019s volleyball, the school had to add another women\u2019s sport to comply with Title IX regulations, Kolb said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ice hockey will become the 13th<\/sup> women\u2019s sport offered at the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The team will play at Skate Frederick, a local ice-skating and hockey facility approximately five minutes from Hood\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Students said they are looking forward to the new sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think the addition of women\u2019s ice hockey is great for women\u2019s sports and the community, along with opening up new doors here at Hood College,\u201d first-year student Austin Rhue said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is just exciting in general as hockey is a fun sport to watch and not every college has the opportunity to say they have an ice hockey team, as well as it reminds me of home as we have a semi-pro ice hockey team,\u201d said first-year student Quade Gannon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The addition of the sport creates more opportunities for women athletes just as the addition of men\u2019s volleyball opened up more options for men\u2019s athletics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Six other schools in the Mid-Atlantic Conference (MAC) have women\u2019s ice hockey teams, including Stevenson University, Alvernia University, Arcadia University, Lebanon Valley College, Wilkes University and King\u2019s College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHockey is sponsored in the MAC, so Hood would not have to find a different conference to compete in,\u201d Kolb said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"