Talk:American Collegiate Hockey Association
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[edit] Club Sports
ACHA Hockey is usually considered club hockey, but what impresses me is that it's a much higher level of competition and organization than most people think of when they think of club sports. Club sports used to be scrabbling together games against whoever you could get - high school teams, JV teams, amateur teams, or whoever. This level of club sports does exist, but the ACHA seems to be something quite different - real intercollegiate competition, and not just within a few miles of home. The ACHA seems more like a parallel organization like the NAIA.
I know most schools don't list club sports on their athletics web page, but do some schools consider their ACHA hockey team to be a varsity team?--RLent 16:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
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- No, ACHA teams are club sports at their school. that being said, the ACHA is prob. the best thing to happen to ice hockey in the US in the past 20 years. it has organized entire generations into highly competative leagues whereas without it they would have languished in bad leagues beer leagues or not played at all. Dirk Pitt 20:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Relationship with NCAA Hockey?
This article doesn't address what seems to me to be the most obvious question: how does this relate to NCAA hockey? All of the language used to describe the ACHA here would apply equally well to NCAA hockey, so what is it that distinguishes the ACHA from the NCAA? I suspect that the ACHA is, or at least once was, an organization of club teams, but the ACHA's webpage and this article never really clarify that. I would suggest a high-level section titled something like "Relationship Between ACHA and NCAA Hockey". --Rkstafford 20:21, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
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- uh, no. the ACHA is an organizing boy, like the NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association and the NAIA National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. but unlike them the ACHA only regulated college ice hockey and only does so with teams that are not varsity, meaning they arnt funded by the school as a sport, although they are sometimes funded as a club. comparing the NCAA and the ACHA would be like comparing Ford and Toyota you can do it. But why?Dirk Pitt 20:12, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
