Penn State Women's Ice Hockey Club
| Penn State Lady Ice Lions | |
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| University | Penn State University |
| Conference | Eastern Collegiate Women's Hockey League |
| Governing Body | ACHA Women's Division 1 |
| First season | 2012–13 |
| Head coach | Patrick Fung 6th season, 57–55–8 |
| Captain(s) | Riley O'Connor |
| Alternate captain(s) | Tarika Embar, Meghan Miller, Rachel Cole |
| Arena |
Pegula Ice Arena Capacity: 5,782 |
| Location | University Park, Pennsylvania |
| Colors | Blue and White |
| ACHA Tournament appearances | |
| Division 1: 2015; Division 2: 2013, 2014 | |
| Conference Tournament championships | |
| None | |
| Conference regular season championships | |
| CHE: 2014 | |
| Current uniform | |
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The Penn State Women's Ice Hockey Club (also known as the Penn State Lady Ice Lions) represents Penn State University (PSU) in Women's Division 1 of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) and in the Eastern Collegiate Women's Hockey League (ECWHL). Since the team's establishment in 2012 (following a predecessor team that existed from 1996 until 2012), it has been very successful, including a pair of ACHA second-place finishes at the Division 2 level in 2012–13 and 2013–14 and an appearance at the ACHA Division 1 national championship tournament to close the 2014–15 season. PSU is one of just three teams to appear in consecutive ACHA Division 2 championship games, joining the University of Minnesota-Duluth (2007–08) and Rainy River Community College (2008–11).
Patrick Fung has been the Lady Ice Lions' head coach since the team's founding, winning the ACHA Division 2 Coach of the Year award in 2013–14.
Penn State's first women's hockey team – called the "Lady Icers" – began play in the 1996–97 season, after students Ellen Bradley and Kathy Beckford recruited players from around campus and Vinnie Scalamogna, the assistant manager of the Penn State Ice Pavilion (then the university's sole ice facility), as coach. The Lady Icers' first game, a 5–4 win over the Susquehanna Rockettes (an adult club team), took place on February 1, 1997.
The Lady Icers' most successful period began in 1999–2000 when it joined a conference known as the Mid-Atlantic Women's Collegiate Hockey Association along with many of the university's traditional rivals from other sports like the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Maryland and Syracuse University and ran up a perfect 8–0–0 league mark in the regular season, then defeated Pittsburgh 2–0 in the MAWCHA playoff championship game. Penn State would go on to repeat as MAWCHA regular season champions in 2000–01 and take the Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey Conference regular season and playoff titles in 2002–03.
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