  {"id":14602,"date":"2008-01-18T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/2008\/01\/18\/bemidji-state-enters-into-hockey-scheduling-agreement-with-wcha\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:00:17","slug":"bemidji-state-enters-into-hockey-scheduling-agreement-with-wcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2008\/01\/18\/bemidji-state-enters-into-hockey-scheduling-agreement-with-wcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji State enters into hockey scheduling agreement with WCHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn.<\/strong> &ndash; ÐßÐßÂþ»­ and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) announced today a future scheduling agreement involving the Bemidji State men&rsquo;s ice hockey program.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the 2010-11 season, and in conjunction with the opening of the Bemidji Regional Events Center, the WCHA will include in its annual composite schedule guaranteed home contests in men&rsquo;s ice hockey at Bemidji State.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re pleased that we have been able to successfully pursue this agreement with the WCHA,&rdquo; Bemidji State President <strong>Dr. Jon Quistgaard<\/strong> said. &ldquo;We view this agreement as the first step in developing an even closer relationship between ÐßÐßÂþ»­ and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>BSU Director of Athletics <strong>Dr. Rick Goeb<\/strong> added, &ldquo;This is a positive step for ÐßÐßÂþ»­ and its hockey program. It helps us in reaching our goal of attaining more home games and additional games against one of the premier hockey conferences in the country&ndash;the WCHA.<\/p>\n<p>It is Bemidji State&rsquo;s goal to play an annual 12-game, non-conference schedule against members of the WCHA with an even split of home and road contests. However, no specific details regarding the scheduling agreement have been finalized at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The WCHA congratulates the City of Bemidji and ÐßÐßÂþ»­ on their commitment to build a new ice hockey facility,&rdquo; WCHA officials said in a statement released today. &ldquo;[The WCHA] looks<br>\nforward to helping showcase the sport at the highest level to the citizens of Bemidji, Minn.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State is a member of NCAA Division I in men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s ice hockey. Its men&rsquo;s program competes as a member of College Hockey America, while its women&rsquo;s team was a charter member of the WCHA women&rsquo;s league, which it has called home since 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. &ndash; ÐßÐßÂþ»­ and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) announced today a future scheduling agreement involving the Bemidji State men&rsquo;s ice hockey program. Beginning with the 2010-11 season, and in conjunction with the opening of the Bemidji Regional Events Center, the WCHA will include in its annual composite schedule guaranteed home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44566,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions\/44566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}