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Making the NCAA field isn't that difficult to do. More than 1/4 of the college teams make it as there are less than 60 schools playing hockey. The recruiting tool called Englestad Arena should get you the players to get that done. Then it is time to have a coach that wants to win games. I get tired or hearing him say, "we learned from this", when they lose a game. Winning is important, if it wasn't why do they keep score.

UND NOT TITLE IX COMPLIANT Published on 05/07/2000, GRAND FORKS HERALD TWIN CITIES ATTORNEY: UND NOT TITLE IX COMPLIANT A Minneapolis attorney who represented two women hockey players in a Title IX lawsuit against St. Cloud State University says UND could be sued for noncompliance with gender equity laws if it does not institute a varsity women's hockey team. I AM NOT AWARE, BASED ON WHAT I'VE SEEN AND HEARD, THAT UND WOULD HAVE ANY DEFENSE FOR A TITLE IX ACTION, SAID CHRIS MESSERLY, AN ATTORNEY WITH THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRM ROBINS, KAPLAN, MILLER & CIRESI My understanding was that Women's Ice Hockey proponents were having conversations with this attorney. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but opinions aren't worth much when the law is applied.

This is still not accurate. If all you had to do was balance the numbers they would have done it with a program that wasn't going to cost up to $500,000.00 a year. The option was to add women's ice hockey or be sued to add women's hockey. The procedure would have been the same as the lawsuit filed at St Cloud by two women. I'll find the exact answer and post it here.

It had something to do with the provision of Title IX. If I remember correctly the gist was that since UND had Men's Ice Hockey, under the law they had to offer the same opportunity (or sport) for women. Otherwise the potential is someone could try to add women's tiddlywinks teams. That was farfetched but you get the idea.

I think if you check, you'd find there are several schools like that. Michigan and Michigan State are two that come to mind.

This is a factually incorrect statement... The options were add women's ice hockey be sued to add women's ice hockey, to comply with Title IX, a law that was 28 years old.

This is a factually incorrect statement. The option was not to add a women's sport, the option was to add Women's Ice Hockey.

Yes, when women's hockey started there was a lot of complaining. One side was it was too expensive, the other side was it is the "LAW". Starting the women's hockey program was just UND complying with a law that was 28 years old.

I wonder why they ended up at Minnesota and didn't go Ivy League? I'm sure Harvard, Dartmouth, or Princeton would have liked them there.

I guess people like you are one of the reasons Title IX came into being and is a law rather than a suggestion. Plus bringing in people to coach because they were a name locally once upon a time would be doing a great disservice to the young woman on the team when a better coach was available.

HockeyMom, Thanks for having the right response.