{"id":543840,"date":"2026-04-06T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543840\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:39:16","slug":"svsu-unveils-inaugural-womens-hockey-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543840\/","title":{"rendered":"SVSU unveils inaugural Women\u2019s Hockey Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; A women\u2019s hockey team will soon join Saginaw Valley State University athletics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team will be a part of the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The program comes as women\u2019s hockey continues to grow in the Mid-Michigan area. Team USA won Olympic gold this year, and the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League held two events in Detroit that drew large crowds at Little Caesars Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The program will begin in the upcoming 2026-2027 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There will be an \u201copen prospect skate\u201d on April 17 and the 18 at the Saginaw Bay Ice Arena on Bay Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Learn more about the program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svsuwomenshockey.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.svsuwomenshockey.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnem.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wnem.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\">WNEM TV5 newsletter<\/a> and receive the latest local news and weather straight to your email every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WNEM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; A women\u2019s hockey team will soon join Saginaw Valley State University athletics. The team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[12236,40309,5,24128,22745,62020,62019,3255],"class_list":{"0":"post-543840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-american-collegiate-hockey-association","9":"tag-division-ii","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-little-caesars-arena","12":"tag-saginaw","13":"tag-saginaw-bay-ice-arena","14":"tag-saginaw-valley-state-university","15":"tag-team-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116358281006750250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}