Western Collegiate Hockey Association women's champions

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates as a women's ice hockey conference in the NCAA's National Collegiate division, the de facto equivalent of Division I in that sport.[lower-alpha 1] Founded in 1951 as a men's ice hockey conference, it added a women's division in 1999, and continued to operate men's and women's divisions through the 2020–21 hockey season. After that season, the WCHA disbanded its men's division after seven of its 10 men's members left the conference to reestablish the Central Collegiate Hockey Association; the WCHA remained in operation as a women-only league. Each team plays 28 league games, each team playing four games against every other, two home games and two road games.

Ridder Arena in Minneapolis has hosted the WCHA Tournament 11 times

The women's WCHA tournament seeds all 8 teams, and conducts a standard 8-team tournament at a single site over 4 days. The winner receives the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. WCHA teams won the first 13 NCAA Tournament championships from its inception in 2001.[1]

Championships

By season
SeasonRegular season champion[2]Tournament champion[2]NCAA national champion[1]Notes
1999–2000 Minnesota–DuluthMinnesota–Duluth—[lower-alpha 2]Bemidji State, Minnesota, Minnesota–Duluth, Minnesota State, Ohio State, St. Cloud State and Wisconsin begin conference play
2000–01 MinnesotaMinnesota–DuluthMinnesota–DuluthNCAA begins awarding a national championship for women's ice hockey
2001–02 MinnesotaMinnesotaMinnesota–Duluth
2002–03 Minnesota–DuluthMinnesota–DuluthMinnesota–Duluth
2003–04 MinnesotaMinnesotaMinnesota
2004–05 MinnesotaMinnesotaMinnesotaNorth Dakota begins conference play
2005–06 WisconsinWisconsinWisconsin
2006–07 WisconsinWisconsinWisconsin
2007–08 Minnesota–DuluthMinnesota–DuluthMinnesota–DuluthWCHA championships later vacated due to ineligible player
2008–09 MinnesotaWisconsinWisconsin
2009–10 Minnesota &
Minnesota–Duluth[lower-alpha 3]		Minnesota–DuluthMinnesota–DuluthMinnesota and Minnesota–Duluth were named regular season conference co-champions after finishing tied for first. Minnesota–Duluth got the top seed for the conference tournament.
2010–11 WisconsinWisconsinWisconsin
2011–12 WisconsinMinnesotaMinnesota
2012–13 MinnesotaMinnesotaMinnesotaUndefeated season for Minnesota
2013–14 MinnesotaMinnesota—
2014–15 MinnesotaWisconsinMinnesota
2015–16 WisconsinWisconsinMinnesota
2016–17 WisconsinWisconsin—Last season for North Dakota
2017–18 WisconsinMinnesota—
2018–19 MinnesotaWisconsinWisconsin
2019–20 WisconsinOhio State—NCAA championship tournament canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2020–21 WisconsinWisconsinWisconsin
2021-22 MinnesotaOhio StateOhio StateSt. Thomas began conference play
2022–23 Ohio StateMinnesotaWisconsin

By school
SchoolRegular season
championships		Tournament
championships		NCAA national
championships		Last
regular season
championship		Last
tournament
championship		Last
NCAA national
championship
Bemidji State 000———
Minnesota 1186202220232016
Minnesota–Duluth 4552010[lower-alpha 3]20102010
Minnesota State 000———
North Dakota 000———
Ohio State 121202320222022
St. Cloud State 000———
St. Thomas 000———
Wisconsin 997202120212023

Notes
  1. The NCAA officially uses the "National Collegiate" term to describe championship events that are open to members of more than one NCAA division. All such NCAA championship events use the term except men's ice hockey, in which the top-level championship is styled as a Division I championship because of the previous existence of a Division II championship in that sport.
  2. Prior to the NCAA establishing a women's ice hockey championship in the 2000–01 season, the American Women's College Hockey Alliance held a national championship from the 1997–98 season to the 1999–2000 season. Minnesota won the AWCHA championship in 2000.
  3. Minnesota and Minnesota–Duluth were named regular season co-champions in 2010

Location of women's WCHA tournaments

Footnotes

    References
    1. "NC Women's Ice Hockey Championship History". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
    2. "WCHA History and Championships". Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Archived from the original on April 13, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
    3. Marttila, Arlan. "Minnesota takes third straight WCHA tourney title with 3-1 win over North Dakota". USCHO.com. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
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