After a pair of NCAA championships, more than 500 career wins and a quarter-century as a head coach in the collegiate ranks, Alabama-Huntsville head coach Doug Ross has decided to hang up his skates at the end of the 2006-07 season, retiring after 25 years as the Chargers’ skipper. “I have coached ice hockey for … Read more
When asked about the CHA, one coach noted the talent and the young players coming into the league, then mentioned Alabama-Huntsville and said, “Huntsville, they’re downright scary.” Yet, year in and year out, the Chargers can’t seem to get over the hump and notch the CHA’s automatic bid by winning the postseason tournament. In years … Read more
Alabama-Huntsville senior captain Jeremy Schreiber said it best. “Every year since I’ve been here we’ve been saying, ‘This is the year, this is the year we go all the way.’” So far, postseason tournament heartbreak has been the common season-ending theme for the Chargers. They’ve been to the finals of the CHA Tournament as recently … Read more
What more does Jared Ross have to do to get noticed? Last season the Alabama-Huntsville center was one of just seven players in Division I to record at least 50 points, paced the CHA with 35 points (15-20) in 20 conference contests, was named co-CHA player of the year and led the nation with a … Read more
At this time last year, Alabama-Huntsville took its standard preseason excitement on the road — to Wisconsin. Then Denver. And then Minnesota. Six losses later, by the time the Chargers had returned home to face Air Force, an already veteran team had aged a generation. UAH would lose just one of its next 16 games, … Read more
Former Alabama-Huntsville player, Jean-Marc Plante, who had been working in the school’s athletic department, collapsed and died Sunday of an apparent heart attack. He was 31. Plante was playing a street hockey game in Madison, Ala., when he collapsed. Plante, the athletic marketing director for Alabama-Huntsville, had worked in the front office of the NHL’s … Read more
National champion Alabama-Huntsville became the latest school to depart the vanishing ranks of Division II hockey Monday, announcing its intention to move the program to Division I. UAH could be eligible for D-I postseason play as early as the 2000-2001 season. “Membership in Division II has gone down,” said athletic director Jim Harris in the … Read more
Alabama-Huntsville broke open the game in the second period Saturday en route to a 5-2 victory over Bemidji State University, giving the Chargers their second NCAA Division II championship. Wingers Ryan Stewart and Colin Schmidt scored late in the middle stanza to put UAH in control, and Cedrick Billequey made 30 stops in the Charger … Read more