Western Collegiate Hockey Association women's champions

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Ridder Arena in Minneapolis has hosted the WCHA Tournament 9 times

The women's division of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Each team plays 28 league games, each team playing four games against every other, two home games and two road games.

The women's WCHA tournament seeds all 8 teams, and conducts a standard 8-team tournament at a single site over 4 days. The winner receives the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. WCHA teams won the first 13 NCAA Tournament championships from its inception in 2001.[1]

Championships

By season

Season Regular season champion[2] Tournament champion[2] NCAA national champion[1] Notes
1999–2000 Minnesota–Duluth Minnesota–Duluth [lower-alpha 1] Bemidji State, Minnesota, Minnesota–Duluth, Minnesota State, Ohio State, St. Cloud State and Wisconsin begin conference play
2000–01 Minnesota Minnesota–Duluth Minnesota–Duluth NCAA begins awarding a national championship for women's ice hockey
2001–02 Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota–Duluth
2002–03 Minnesota–Duluth Minnesota–Duluth Minnesota–Duluth
2003–04 Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota
2004–05 Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota North Dakota begins conference play
2005–06 Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin
2006–07 Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin
2007–08 Minnesota–Duluth Minnesota–Duluth Minnesota–Duluth
2008–09 Minnesota Wisconsin Wisconsin
2009–10 Minnesota &
Minnesota–Duluth[lower-alpha 2]
Minnesota–Duluth Minnesota–Duluth Minnesota and Minnesota–Duluth were named regular season conference co-champions after finishing tied for first. Minnesota–Duluth got the top seed for the conference tournament.
2010–11 Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin
2011–12 Wisconsin Minnesota Minnesota
2012–13 Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Undefeated season for Minnesota
2013–14 Minnesota Minnesota
2014–15 Minnesota Wisconsin Minnesota

By school

School Regular season
championships
Tournament
championships
NCAA national
championships
Last
regular season
championship
Last
tournament
championship
Last
NCAA national
championship
Bemidji State 0 0 0
Minnesota 9 6 5 2015 2014 2015
Minnesota–Duluth 4 5 5 2010[lower-alpha 2] 2010 2010
Minnesota State 0 0 0
North Dakota 0 0 0
Ohio State 0 0 0
St. Cloud State 0 0 0
Wisconsin 4 5 4 2012 2015 2011

Notes

  1. Prior to the NCAA establishing a women's ice hockey championship in the 2000–01 season, the American Women's College Hockey Alliance held a national championship from the 1997–98 season to the 1999–2000 season. Minnesota won the AWCHA championship in 2000.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Minnesota and Minnesota–Duluth were named regular season co-champions in 2010

Location of women's WCHA tournaments

References

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