Women’s Division II Releases First Ranking of 2024-25 Season
TROY, Mich. – Nov. 15, 2024 – The American Collegiate Hockey Association’s (ACHA) Women’s Division II (W2) today announced the first official rankings of the 2024-2025 season. The results are based on games played and reported within the first ranking period that ended on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, between the division’s 73 member teams (up from 68 last season).
W2 was pleased to welcome the following new teams that made their ACHA debut this season: University of Iowa, Augustana University, University of Arkansas, United States Military Academy West Point, University of North Carolina, Hope College, University of Illinois, Eastern Michigan University.
Details About Rankings & Invitations to Nationals
The Women’s D2 tournament at the 2025 ACHA National Championships presented by FloHockey will begin Friday, March 21 at the Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Each team is guaranteed three games of pool play, with the Championship game scheduled for Tuesday, March 25.
Invitations to Nationals will ultimately be extended to the top-ranking W2 teams in each region based on the final computer ranking of the season. The final date that games will count towards W2 rankings is Sunday, March 2.
New this season, based on divisional voting at the Annual Meeting in May 2024, W2 pool assignments at Nationals will be increasingly random. Pools have been pre-assigned the 1 and 2 seeds for their respective regions. The remaining seeds will be assigned by random draw before the final ranking.
The ACHA will extend invitations to the following number of W2 teams per region:
- Northeast region: 4 invitations
- Southeast region: 5 invitations
- West region: 3 invitations
- Central region: 4 invitations
RANKING #1
NORTHEAST REGION
- Northeastern University
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Saint Anselm College
- University of Vermont
- University of Connecticut
- Providence College
- University of New Hampshire
- Sacred Heart University
- Assumption University
- Merrimack College
- Bentley University
- Harvard University
- ^College of the Holy Cross
- ^Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Teams not yet ranked due to having only three or fewer games reported: ^University of New England, Roger Williams University
SOUTHEAST REGION
- Liberty University
- United States Naval Academy
- Villanova University
- Rowan University
- University of Maryland
- Niagara University
- University of Delaware
- Mercyhurst University
- Robert Morris University
- University of Pittsburgh
- West Virginia University
- Virginia Tech
- Brockport State University
- University of Virginia
- United States Military Academy West Point
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Georgetown University
- West Chester University
- George Washington University
- Montclair State University
- University of North Carolina
Teams not yet ranked due to having only three or fewer games reported: SUNY Oswego, SUNY Brockport, ^Slippery Rock University, Loyola University Maryland
CENTRAL
- Eastern Michigan University
- Sault College
- The Ohio State
- Central Michigan University
- Northern Michigan University
- Aurora University
- Michigan State University
- Lawrence Technological University
- Miami University
- *Bowling Green State University
- Adrian College
- University of Illinois
- ^University of Notre Dame
- ^Hope College
Teams not yet ranked due to having only three or fewer games reported: ^Loyola University Chicago
WEST REGION
- Assiniboine College
- University of Saint Thomas
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Maryville University
- Iowa State University
- University of Iowa
- ^University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
- University of Minnesota-Duluth
- Lake Region State College
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- North Dakota State University
- ^United States Air Force Academy
- *Augustana University
- University of Nebraska
Teams not yet ranked due to having only three or fewer games reported: Dakota College at Bottineau, University of Arkansas
The following four conferences with at least six W2 ACHA member teams will be offered an automatic bid for their top team to the 2025 W2 National Championships: Central Collegiate Women’s Hockey Association (CCWHA), College Hockey East (CHE), Women’s Delaware Valley College Hockey Conference (DVCHC) and the Independent Women’s Club Ice Hockey League (IWCHL)
*The following teams are not eligible for the 2025 National Championships: Augustana University, Bowling Green State University
^The following teams have declared they will not attend the 2025 National Championships: Hope College, Holy Cross, Loyola University Chicago, Slippery Rock University, University of New England, University of Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, US Air Force Academy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The second W2 ranking period will end on Dec. 8, 2024. Follow the W2 schedule here. For more information about W2 policies and procedures, please review the ACHA Policy Manual.
