St. John Fisher College will add two intercollegiate hockey groups to
its athletic choices starting in 2025, and would be the first
collegiate associate of the Rochester Ice Heart, this system’s dwelling ice.

The addition of males’s and girls’s hockey groups to the roster of
sports activities supplied on the College broadens its whole variety of athletic
groups competing within the NCAA Division III to 26.

Fisher’s athletics division is now within the recruiting section, and
incoming hockey student-athletes will enter the College within the fall
2025 semester. On the collegiate degree, the hockey season runs from
October to March.  

This information builds upon current years of development within the Fisher Athletics
Division in addition to the rising recognition of hockey within the Western
New York area and on campus. Fisher’s membership hockey crew received the
American Division Championship on the AAU Faculty Hockey Event in
March 2023.

“We’re assured that our College’s tutorial choices,
persevering with development, and popularity and report within the NCAA Division III
will allow us to efficiently recruit hockey student-athletes to Fisher
who will add to our success,” stated Jose Perales, vice chairman for
enrollment administration. “We look ahead to offering the entire Fisher
expertise to college students who would possibly now think about Fisher due to the
alternative to play intercollegiate hockey. Not solely will they’ve
entry to a state-of-the-market tutorial expertise however the distinctive
Fisher Athletics expertise as effectively.” 

The College anticipates a roster dimension of 25-30 student-athletes on
each the boys’s and girls’s groups with an eye fixed towards their first
aggressive intercollegiate sport in fall 2025.

“That is an thrilling time at Fisher and increasing our intercollegiate
athletic choices to replicate the rising curiosity in hockey provides to
that pleasure,” stated Bob Ward, athletics director at Fisher. “Via
our partnership with the premier facility within the area, the Rochester
Ice Heart, our student-athletes could have entry to innovative
services, and a spot to name dwelling.”

The College stated that subsequent steps embody hiring a training employees and the finalization of the game’s convention affiliation.