actually they do. More familys who have daughters playing youth hockey go as a family to see local womens college hockey teams, than do family with boys playing youth hockey. girls youth hockey is exploding across the country right now, and the time is ripe for BG add a womans Varsity team. As for paying for ice time, again its no impact long term as the team would be a revenue generating team vs ...gymnastics, tennis, cross country, track, golf. And dare I ppoint out that a new varsity sport like womans hockey would also generate excitement and draw people just for being "new". Minnesota, WI, BC etc all have womans and mens varsity teams, none have ice issue with time for varsity and other sports.dannyk wrote:Local teams really dont have much to do with it. Most of the women DI players come from Europe and Canada. Take a look at some of the WCHA rosters. Many US womens college players have olympic experience.
Eliminating a cheap sport such as track would not justify adding womens hockey.
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Womans Hockey at BG would be a good positive income generating team for the school. Yes some sacrifices would have to be made to add a womans team there is no question about that, but with a new area on the horizon adding a womans team now would be ideal.
