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// AUGUST 2022 USAHOCKEYMAGAZINE.COM
The ACHA Continues A Long Tradition Of Giving Hockey Players
A Chance To Continue Playing While They Earn Their Degree
PHOTOS COURTESY OF ACHA
ON CAMPUS
raig Barnett likes to tell a story about his days playing minor league hockey within the New York Rangers orga-
nization and relate it to what the ACHA can offer to a student-athlete who wants to continue playing the game
he or she loves.
"I was with a team in Pennsylvania and I'd come off the ice after practice and it would take me an hour to shovel
the snow off my car, but I had college teammates playing down in Arizona and Texas, and they were playing 36
holes of golf after practice," the executive director of the American Collegiate Hockey Association recalled.
"I don't think people realize that you can still play a high level of college hockey in markets people don't think
have hockey. I love educating people about the ACHA and the opportunities it offers."
By Brian Lester
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