WCHA

League status: Active
English name: Western Collegiate Hockey Association
Year of start: 1951
WWW: http://www.wcha.com/

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17 Jun 2017 \|	Sean Walker (F)	Bowling Green State University	Ontario Reign
15 Jun 2017 \|	Hampus Eriksson (F)	Fairbanks Ice Dogs	Lake Superior State University
10 May 2017 \|	Shane Hanna (D)	Michigan Tech	Texas Stars
05 May 2017 \|	Chad McDonald (F)	Ferris State University	Gap Rapaces

League leaders | season 2016-2017 all time stats

#	Player name	Pos	Team	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
1.	Tyler Poulsen	F	University of Alabama-Huntsville	24	33	3	36	33	-5
2.	Marc Michaelis	LW	Minnesota State University - Mankato	39	14	22	36	12	4
3.	Gerry Mayhew	F	Ferris State University	33	17	18	35	61	8
4.	Mitch Hults	C	Lake Superior State University	36	11	23	34	42	1
5.	Mitch McLain	C	Bowling Green State University	40	17	16	33	87	19
6.	C.J. Suess	C	Minnesota State University - Mankato	39	12	19	31	38	3
7.	Daniel Brickley	D	Minnesota State University - Mankato	31	8	23	31	20	9
8.	Dominik Shine	F	Northern Michigan University	33	20	10	30	30	3
9.	Kevin Dufour	F	Bowling Green State University	41	18	12	30	14	3
10.	Joshua Henke	F	Lake Superior State University	36	10	20	30	34	-6
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The Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) is a college ice hockey conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a women's-only conference. From 1951 to 1999, it operated as a men-only league, adding women's competition in the 1999-2000 season. It operated men's and women's leagues through the 2020-21 season; during this period, the men's WCHA expanded to include teams far removed from its traditional Midwestern base, with members in Alabama, Alaska, and Colorado at different times. The men's side of the league officially disbanded after seven members left to form the revived Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA); the WCHA remains in operation as a women-only league.

The men's WCHA would fold after the 2020-21 season, but the women's WCHA announced a further expansion effective in 2021-22 with the arrival of St. Thomas, a Twin Cities school that received NCAA approval to directly transition from Division III to Division I. St. Thomas had been expelled from its longtime D-III home of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference effective with the end of the 2020-21 school year due to perceptions by many members that it had grown too strong for that conference in multiple sports.The Summit League offered the Tommies a D-I home, and backed the school's bid to directly transition from D-III.

The now women-only WCHA has 8 members