The William Smith College athletic department announced the inaugural conference schedule for the Heron ice hockey team. The 2014-15 conference season will begin on Nov. 7, 2014, when William Smith hosts Utica for an ECAC West contest at the Geneva Recreation Complex.
“I’m excited to drop the puck on the inaugural William Smith ice hockey season,” said Head Coach Jaime Totten. “I’m looking forward to the challenge of competing in the well-respected ECAC West Conference and rounding out the schedule with competitive non-conference games.”
With the addition of the Heron hockey team, the ECAC West will be comprised of 10 teams. William Smith’s 2014-15 conference schedule features two contests against each of the other nine ECAC West teams: Chatham, Elmira, Neumann, Buffalo State, Cortland, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Potsdam and Utica.
After opening the year with two back-to-back games against the Pioneers at The Cooler, the Herons will take their first road trip to Potsdam, N.Y., to face the Bears on Nov. 14 and 15. The 2015-16 ECAC West schedule is also available on the Heron ice hockey webpage.
William Smith is working to add seven additional non-conference games for a full 25-game slate.
Ice hockey will be William Smith’s 12th varsity sport when it begins play in 2014-15.
The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic conference and the only multidivisional conference, with 302 Division I, II and III colleges and universities from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Utah. Established in 1938 the ECAC is celebrating its 75th Anniversary in 2013.
