{"id":149676,"date":"2024-11-12T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T00:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?p=149676"},"modified":"2024-11-12T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:02:01","slug":"american-international-to-reclassify-as-division-ii-beginning-with-2024-25-college-hockey-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2024\/11\/12\/american-international-to-reclassify-as-division-ii-beginning-with-2024-25-college-hockey-season\/","title":{"rendered":"American International to reclassify as Division II beginning with 2025-26 college hockey season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113508\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113508\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aic-lang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aic-lang.jpg 499w, https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aic-lang-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aic-lang-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Lang is in his 13th season behind the AIC bench (USCHO file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>American International informed players earlier today that it will end its Division I program at the end of this season and field a Division II team starting next year.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Eric Lang confirmed this via a text to USCHO, as well as posting the following on X:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AIC has been the place I&#39;ve called my home for over 15 years of my life, as a player, a graduate assistant, and Head Men&#39;s Ice Hockey Coach.  There have been some stops here and there along the way, but something always brings me back to the institution I love. <\/p>\n<p>The information\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Lang (@ericlang9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericlang9\/status\/1856429387555713044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>AIC, a Division II school, has been Division I in hockey since 1998, when it moved the program to D-I and joined the MAAC, which eventually became Atlantic Hockey.<\/p>\n<p>The Yellow Jackets have had recent success under Lang, winning four straight regular-season and three straight playoff titles from 2019 to 2022. AIC upset No. 1 St. Cloud State in the 2019 NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The school and Atlantic Hockey America have yet to release statements, but it is assumed that AIC will end its relationship with Atlantic Hockey America. The school is a member of the Northeast 10, a Division II conference that sponsors men&#8217;s hockey. Current members are Assumption, Franklin Pierce, Post, Saint Anselm, Saint Michael\u2019s and Southern New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>There is no NCAA Division II tournament and teams in the NE-10 typically play Division III schools in non-conference play.<\/p>\n<p>It is also likely that the program will end its relationship with the Mass Mutual Center, its home since 2017. Before that, AIC&#8217;s home rink was the Olympia Ice Center.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a developing story.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American International informed players earlier today that it will end its Division I program at the end of this season and field a Division II team starting next year. Coach Eric Lang confirmed this via a text to USCHO, as well as posting the following on X: AIC has been the place I&#39;ve called my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":114876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[812,1671],"coauthors":[847],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>American International to reclassify as Division II beginning with 2025-26 college hockey season - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"American International informed players earlier today that it will end its Division I program at the end of this season and field a Division II team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149676\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American International to reclassify as Division II beginning with 2025-26 college hockey season - 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