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Breaking the Ice: Inside the World of ACHA Women’s Hockey
What makes ACHA hockey different from NCAA hockey, and why are more and more collegiate athletes choosing it as an opportunity to play competitive hockey?
Hayley Kelleher is Reimagining Hockey Safety with Slice Guard
What began as a classroom assignment has become one of the most ambitious safety innovations in hockey. Union College forward Hayley Kelleher shares the story behind Slice Guard, from entrepreneurship competitions and prototype development to building a company with one goal: making the game safer for players at every level.
Finally a League of Their Own
While the Women's Professional Baseball League is making history by becoming the first professional women's baseball league in the United States since 1954, its impact reaches far beyond the inaugural season. For many players, the league represents something generations of women have never had—a place to continue playing the sport they love at the professional level.
From Uncertainty to Opportunity: The Rise of RI Rogues FC
When the RI Reds FC folded, soccer player Shannen Pelletier found herself facing a difficult question: what would happen to women's semi-professional soccer in Rhode Island?
She waited for someone else to step forward. Eventually, she realized no one was coming. "I had only two choices," Pelletier said. "Step up and build it myself, or accept that semi-professional women's soccer in Rhode Island was over."
She could not accept that.