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)

[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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