New Alumni Page
Rowan has established a new Alumni page to recognize and salute the past players and members from the days of Glassboro State College onward. Alumni are welcome to join the network and share their stories and history. We have created a section called 'Down Memory Lane' where we hope to keep adding the hockey experiences from the beginning to now. Our program is steeped in tradition and we salute those that wore the Brown and Gold colors.
If you are an alumni and would like to share your memories, don't hesitate to contact us from our alumni page (
HERE). As part of the growing alumni network, we have also announced that Rowan will have it's first Alumni game on Saturday, October 4th. If you are interested, just let us know.
Preliminary Tryout Schedule Released
Rowan Ice Hockey would like to announce that tryouts for the 2008/2009 season have been released and will be held starting September 4th at Hollydell arena. There will be a hockey meeting on September 3rd to welcome all potential and returning players to discuss the program and the tryout process. The detail tryout schedule can be found
HERE. If you haven't contacted the team about trying out, we encourage you to fill out the recruiting information
HERE. Good luck and see everyone at the meeting in September!
Rowan moves to MACHA
Rowan Ice Hockey has officially joined the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Hockey Association. This is a great step forward for the whole organization as they keep moving ahead. The MACHA has released a statement:
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The MACHA announced that, at their spring meeting, the membership have accepted both Rowan University and The College of New Jersey as probationary members. In another move, Princeton University will remain a part of the MACHA as an associate member team, meaning the Tigers will not be eligible for playoffs next season and will play only a limited schedule as they rebuild their program.
The addition of Rowan and TCNJ brings the MACHA membership back to 10 teams and adds clubs that will immediately compete for playoff spots.
"Adding these schools will give us two more quality programs that have been working hard the past few years to get to this level," MACHA President Les Schriber said. "They bring some great local rivalries into our league setting and I expect them to have an immediate impact. Every team to join the MACHA in our first ten years has improved talent-wise and received more exposure on the ACHA scene. These teams are no different. Admitting TCNJ and Rowan is a great way to begin our second decade as a league."
"Princeton had a tough year," Schriber commented, "and we came to a mutual agreement of associate membership. Princeton is an original, founding member of the MACHA and they are a valued member of the league to this day. This situation will allow them to be affiliated with the MACHA on a level they are comfortable with so they can rebuild the program's roster strength and join us back as full members as soon as they are ready."
"This move today is drastic but I expect it will give our league a legitimate shot of placing even more teams at the ACHA regional tournament next year and in the future."
ROWAN PROFS ARE 2008 LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
The Rowan University Ice Hockey team became the only team to win a championship for the school this year by winning the Great Northeast Conference title in stellar fashion. Being down by two goals twice, the Profs beat rival College of New Jersey by a final score of 5-4.
This season was one to be remembered as hard work and dedication from the start made it all possible to get over their finals loss last year and win it all now. The future is bright for this young group as there are only two seniors graduating. Preparations have already started for next year.
We want to thank all the parents, fans, sponsors, and supporters for all their dedication this year. It is also a distinguished pleasure to thank the coaching staff on their hard work and preparations all season to give Rowan their 1st title. Also a great thanks and appreciation to our greatest general manager and finally to all the players! Thank you everyone.
Rowan tops TCNJ in the Finals!
The championship game featured #2 seeded Rowan Profs against the #1 seeded College of New Jersey Lions.
In the opening minutes of the first period, Rowan maintained a strong pressure in the offensive zone however allowed TCNJ to quickly change that momentum by taking control and scoring the first goal. Rowan looked a little nervous trying to avoid mistakes and making complicated passes. TCNJ quickly added another goal to go up 2-0. Rowan being in this situation before stepped up their tempo and started putting chances on TCNJ's goaltender who played very solid overall. Eventually, freshman forward Colin Davis skated through the defense and netted his first goal of the game to draw the Profs within one goal.
In the second period, Rowan couldn't get anything started in the first ten minutes and allowed TCNJ to add to their lead with another goal letting the Profs be down 3-1. Things were about to change as the Profs regained their confidence and started putting the kind of pressure everyone was used to seeing during the regular season. The team started pressuring the oppositions defense and getting really good opportunities. Davis once again made some nifty plays and got the puck past the goaltender to get the score within one. A few minutes later, the freshman line once again pressured deep in the zone which resulted in a great tipped goal by forward Christian Biscradi. This made it all tied up going to the third period.
In the third period, Rowan came out with steam and energy which kept the opposition’s defense on their toes. The constant pressure deep in TCNJ's zone was rewarded by a goal from who else but Davis who netted his second playoff hat trick in two days. This put Rowan on top for the first time in the game. Although Rowan kept up the pressure, a small mistake made TCNJ capitalize on it to tie it all up at 4 with about six or so minutes remaining in the game. The confident Profs never gave up and with about 2 minutes remaining in the game, Biscardi was taken down while on a breakaway. NCAA rules gave the coaching staff a choice of what they wanted and a penalty shot was awarded. Biscardi was the man who started it and who was going to try to end it. The arena all on their feet saw the calm freshman make an unbelievable backhand move to roof the puck behind the goalie. Rowan never looked back afterwards holding TCNJ to nothing but dump-ins and taking the victory 5-4.
Rowan wins semi-final vs Muhlenberg
Rowan opened the 2008 playoffs by winning their opening semi-final game 9-4 against last year winners Muhlenberg College. A rematch of the last years finals the Profs were determined to move on. It was a tight game during the first period but Rowan eventually prevailed and moved on to the finals to take on College of New jersey.
Rowan in the Playoffs
Rowan has concluded their regular season play by finishing second in the league with a 13-1-1-1 record and 20-5-2-1 overall finishing ranked 16th in the Northeast.
The Profs are now heading to the playoffs second consecutive year in the conference. Rowan has a first round bye and will play their opening playoff semi-final game on Saturday March 1st against Muhlenberg College. The game is scheduled for 4:00 pm. Sunday's final will be at 12:00 pm. All playoffs will be held at the ice Works ice arena in Aston, PA. Admission is $5. Directions to the rink can be found by going HERE.
Rowan wins on the road
Rowan University Ice Hockey team continued their Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference play this past weekend, traveling to Long Island to play CW Post Pioneers. Despite the long bus ride and having one of their defensenman out because of suspension, Rowan came out determined with scoring the first two goals. However in the midst of the action, the Profs lost a key player to injury which would result in Rowan being even more shorthanded on the bench. It seemed to spark CW Post as they kept pushing and made it close in the second period before Rowan found its breaks to head to the 3rd period up by the score of 4-2. In the third period Rowan seemed to be a little flat footed but still managed to be up by two late in the contest. CW post with some home calls managed to strike within one late but Rowan kept their cool till the end to win it by the score of 5-4. This Saturday night at 8:15 PM, Rowan plays their final home game before the Holidays against their rival College of New Jersey at Hollydell Ice Arena in Sewell, NJ. The game will be telecast on Rowan Radio.
Rowan sustains an OT lost and rebounds vs Kutztown
Rowan traveled to Lehigh Valley to face Muhlenberg in their second meeting of the season. Although the Profs were victorious in their first meeting, they knew this one was going to be hard. With 4 key players sidelined do to injuries the Profs had to shuffle their lineup. Rowan took two leads during the game, a three goal lead in the second and two goal lead in the third, both times not being able to sustain it by struggling to play four-on-four and continuously forcing plays. The Profs had a great opportunity in overtime with a Fred Brewer breakaway but his miss turned into an odd-man rush the other way with the eventual game winner. The final score in the see-saw game was 9-8.
Their home game against Kutztown University saw another key player leaving the game early although Rowan kept up it's pressure to eventually win the game 9-2. Rowan still down from the night before defeat, they hope to turn it around when they face CW Post on December 8th. Rowan is now 13-2-1-1 overall and 7-0-0-1 in their conference.
Rowan beats LaSalle
Rowan continued their in-conference play by beating visiting team LaSalle University by a score of 13-3. The match was played with lots of grit and enthusiasm on both sides as both teams did not want to give up anything. With the referee's letting a lot of things go, it was unavoidable that the game will played without any problems. A few times during the first period, fighting instigations were attempted by LaSalle with Rowan's players not backing down, although nothing ever developed. By the end of the second period, however, a blow to the head to one of the Rowan players exploded into an on ice fiasco resulting in 2 DQ's for LaSalle and 1 by Rowan. The Profs used their speed and kept their pressure up while continuing their style of play in the third period. LaSalle even down late never gave up and played hard till the very end. Rowan now sits undefeated in their conference at 6-0 and overall is 12-2-1. Rowan has a break over the US Holiday of Thanksgiving, but is back at the end of November to face Muhlenberg and Kutztown.
