[Mr KLC]

Alabama Huntsville hockey is not dead yet.

One week after the school announced that the Chargers men’s hockey program would be eliminated immediately, alumni and supporters who started a Go Fund Me account raised more than $500,000 to revive the program to play in the 2020-21 season, athletic director Cade Smith announced Friday. In addition, two donors will contribute $125,000 each, and the school will start an advisory board of hockey alumni, local business leaders and major donors tasked to save the program beyond the upcoming season.

“We are hopeful that this support will translate into a sustainable funding model that will allow the UAH hockey program to rise again to high levels of success,’’ university President Darren Dawson said in a statement.

Alabama Huntsville finished its seventh season in the WCHA in 2019-20, and the program was on shaky ground even before the coronavirus pandemic prompted the school to drop hockey and men’s and women’s tennis because of financial concerns. Seven members of the WCHA announced last year that they are leaving to form another conference – the new CCHA – after the 2020-21 season. That would leave only Alabama Huntsville, Alaska (Fairbanks) and Alaska Anchorage in the WCHA after the upcoming season.

[Otters27]

Hope they get to keep it.

Az St and them are the only warm weather hockey program s I believe