RIT Tigers women's ice hockey
| RIT Tigers | |
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 Current season
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| University | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Conference | CHA |
| Head coach |
Scott McDonald 11th year, 201–125–26 |
| Arena |
Gene Polisseni Center Capacity: 4,300 |
| Location | Henrietta, New York |
| Student section | RIT Corner Crew |
| Colors | Orange and Brown |
| NCAA Tournament Champions | |
| Division III: 2012 | |
| NCAA Tournament Frozen Four | |
| Division III: 2011, 2012 | |
| NCAA Tournament Appearances | |
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Division III: 2007, 2011, 2012 Division I: 2015 |
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| Conference Tournament Champions | |
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ECAC West: 2011, 2012 CHA: 2014, 2015 |
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| Conference Regular Season Champions | |
| ECAC West: 2011, 2012 | |
| Current uniform | |
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The RIT Tigers women's ice hockey team is one of two hockey teams representing Rochester Institute of Technology in suburban Rochester, New York. The team moved to NCAA Division I women's ice hockey as a member of College Hockey America, after many years at Division III as part of the ECAC West conference. The Bruce B. Bates Women's Hockey Coach is former Niagara University player Scott McDonald.
RIT added women's varsity hockey for the 1975–1976 season. After many years in the ECAC East, RIT moved to the ECAC West league for the 2007–08 season. The team made three NCAA tournament appearances at the Division III level, in 2007, 2011, and 2012, with a record of 5–2 in tournament games. They lost their lone game in the 2007 campaign to Amherst College. In their 2011 campaign, the lady Tigers lost at home, in the Frozen Four final, to Norwich University. In 2012, the Tigers won their first national championship, also on home ice, and also against Norwich University. It was the third-ever national championship for RIT's athletic program and first in women's sports.
On March 20, 2012, RIT announced that the women's team would move up to Division I for the 2012–13 season, as the men's team did six years prior. The Tigers have been admitted to the College Hockey America conference.
After a successful first season at the division I level going 16–16–5, even after losing their first DI game 6–2 to the Mercyhurst Lakers, the tigers advanced to the CHA semifinals where they fell to the Syracuse Orange 2–1 in overtime. The next season was yet another season to remember. The tigers participated in the Frozen Frontier. A 10-day hockey festival at Rochester's Frontier Field. The Tigers fell to Clarkson University 6–2. The Tigers went on to win 11 out of their last 18 to win the CHA championship 2–1 in double overtime against the team that defeated them in their first ever division I game, the Mercyhurst Lakers.
In 2014–15, their first season at the 4,300-seat Gene Polisseni Center, the Tigers went 15–19–5 and finished in last place in the CHA. But they won every game in the 2015 CHA Tournament, beating Robert Morris, Mercyhurst, and then Syracuse, 2–1 in double overtime, to capture their second straight CHA championship. The trophy this year came with the CHA's first-ever automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, where the Tigers fell 2–6 to the eventual champions, #2 Minnesota.
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