TROY, Mich. – (May 9, 2019) – The American Collegiate Hockey Association announced the winners of the association’s annual Community Service awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to their local community and/or charitable organizations and representation of the ACHA. These awards were presented last Friday at a gala reception during the ACHA Hall of Fame & Coach of the Year Banquet in Naples, Florida.

 

As part of its Community Services program, the AHL honored one club from each of the ACHA’s five divisions for activities done as a team.

 

University of Arizona received the ACHA Men’s Division I Community Service Award and the ACHA Overall Community Service Award for all three ACHA Men’s Divisions and two Women’s Divisions. This past season, the Wildcats hockey club dedicated game nights to The Arizona Cancer Center, The Humane Society of Southern Arizona, Southern Arizona Adaptive Sports, Ronald McDonald House, and other charitable organizations.

 

Grand Canyon University were the winners for the Women’s Division I for their multiple community and charitable efforts including packing meals at Feed My Starving Children for hungry children in other countries, donating time to run practices at SheWolves—a developmental girl’s program, and collecting non-perishable food items during games to donate to Desert Mission Food Bank.

 

Brigham Young University earned top honors for the Men’s Division II for dedicating game nights to their local Congenital Heart Foundation and to a family of a local fallen police officer and former local hockey player that was killed in the line of duty.

 

The University of Delaware received the Women’s Division II Community Service award for their community and charitable efforts with events dedicated to breast cancer awareness and military appreciation, as well as hosting a 12-hour dance marathon.

 

The University of Georgia were the winners for the Men’s Division III for their dedicated game nights of Pink the Rink that supported breast cancer awareness and a Teddy Bear Toss night supporting their local sheriff’s department.