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NANETTE HOUSER, 484-467-6771
10/08/2008 marketing@ncrha.org
11th Annual
Collegiate Roller Hockey Championships to Be Held in Feasterville, PA
April 2-5, 2009
The National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association proudly
announces the 11th Collegiate Roller Hockey Championships, to be
held April 2-5, 2009 in Feasterville,
PA. The event will bring 60 teams
in 4 divisions (Division I, Division II, Junior College Division, and B
Division) together to compete for the title of Collegiate Roller Hockey National
Champion. The event will be hosted by the NCRHA, in conjunction with The
Sportsplex and the Bucks County Sports Commission, and all games will be played
at The Sportsplex.
Teams will represent each of the seven Member Organizations
of the NCRHA. Each Member Organization will receive an automatic bid to place
one team in each division. The rest of the field will be selected at-large from
around the country by the NCRHA Selection Committee on “Selection Monday,”
March 2, 2009.
The format for the event includes three round robin games
for each team, followed by a single elimination bracket round leading up to the
National Championship games. Games will begin on all three rinks at The
Sportsplex on Thursday morning, April 2 and the Championships for all Divisions
will take place mid-day on Sunday April 5. A complete listing of the colleges
and universities that will be represented, round robin pools and the game
schedule, will be available on the NCRHA website, www.NCRHA.org, in March 2009.
The Sportsplex is the Philadelphia
area’s finest indoor sports facility, featuring three full-sized rinks with
stadium seating for up to 600 people per rink and 12 locker rooms. The entire
indoor facility is fully air-conditioned, with a large parking area and a new
silicone cool roof that is environmentally friendly. Players and fans will
enjoy a fully stocked pro shop, full service snack bar and a video game room.
Bucks County
businesses, hotels, attractions and shopping districts are eager to welcome the
Collegiate Roller Hockey Championships. Ranked by LIFE’s Dream Destinations as one of
the top 20 sight-seeing vacations in the world, Bucks County
boasts an array of activities for all ages.
Center City
Philadelphia is located just 20 minutes from the
Bucks County
area, and New York City is less than an hour away.
Once again the NCRHA will be hosting its signature Mission Hockey College
program during the National Championships. This event, sponsored by Mission Hockey, offers
no-cost instructional clinics to local youth roller hockey players. The
instructors for the Mission
Hockey College
are current college hockey players and are regarded as some of the most talented
players in the world. Mission Hockey College gives the youth players the
opportunity to interact with the college players in an atmosphere where they
can receive tips and pointers and have some fun. More details will be released
on www.NCRHA.org as the event approaches.
The 2008 Collegiate
Roller Hockey National Championships were held in Colorado
Springs, CO, at the Tour Inline
Hockey Arena and Colorado
Sports Center.
Lindenwood University (MO) claimed its 5th consecutive Division I National
Championship by defeating the University
of Missouri – St.
Louis, and Neumann University defeated West Chester University
for the Division II National Championship. In the Junior College Division
(formerly known as Division III), Broward County Community College (FL) claimed
title by defeating Oakland Community College (MI), and Lindenwood University took
home the B Division National Championship by defeating the University of
Central Florida‘s B squad. You can view the results from the 2008 Collegiate
Roller Hockey National Championships, as well as 2004-2007 at www.NCRHA.org.
This will be the eleventh consecutive year that college roller hockey will
crown national champions, going back to 1999. It is the fourth time that the
event will be held in a repeat location, as The Sportsplex in Feasterville
hosted the 2003 Championships under the former Collegiate Roller Hockey League.
Last year’s host, Colorado, hosted the 2005
and 2008 events, and St. Louis
hosted in 2002 and 2007. The other location that has hosted the event twice is Southern California in 2001 and 2004.
The NCRHA is the
nationally recognized governing body of collegiate level roller hockey in the United States.
Organized into seven regions, a total 190 teams represent 140 colleges and
universities at the club sports level. The NCRHA is sanctioned by USA Hockey
InLine, a program of USA Hockey, Inc.
The NCRHA would like to
thank the following partners and sponsors for their continued support of this
event and the growth of collegiate level roller hockey: USA Hockey InLine, The Sportsplex, The Bucks County Sports
Commission, Mission Hockey, Ace Jerseys, Revision Hockey, and Rocket Puck.
For more information, stay tuned to www.NCRHA.org
throughout the season