Posts by Geof F. Morris:
All Is Not Lost
The Huntsville Times has the scoop: the program will continue past 2012. Here’s the statement from the school:
Members of The University of Alabama in Huntsville administration met this evening with hockey supporters, following discussions with Chancellor Malcolm Portera, and came to a consensus to work closely together to pursue institutional and community support to continue UAH hockey at the Division I level.
When we have more, we’ll share it. Have a great night, everyone.
ETA (2314 hrs): Paul Gattis has filed a longer story.
Jeremy Robichaud on Hints of the Past
I’m a USCHO poster (jrobes01) and long-time UMass Lowell fan. With UAH coming up to Lowell this Friday, I thought it would be a good time to send you an e-mail. Although I’ve only seen the web portion of the attempt to keep UAH Hockey alive, I’m very impressed with what you’ve done in the [...]
Justin Roller on Perseverance
[Justin is a 2010 UAH graduate currently in law school at NYU.] My favorite Charger hockey memory will always be my first road trip to Niagara. In the fall of my freshman year at UAH, you could pay $80 for a 16 hour bus ride to Niagara Falls and two tickets to the weekend series [...]
Leslie Reed on Hockey as Huntsville and Family Tradition
When I lived in Huntsville in the early-mid 1980s, UAH hockey games were “the place to be”. Being introduced to hockey through UAH, my brother joined a league at age 10 or 11 when we moved to NC in 1985. There were not many leagues around, so it was a travelling team. My dad and [...]
Lauren Kahre About Learning to Love Hockey at UAH
I’m a student at UAH, in my fourth, and, barring some drastic failure, last year of undergraduate study. I say undergraduate because I’ll still be here at the graduate level next year, and I can’t believe that it might be my only year here without hockey. I came to UAH with little hockey experience. I [...]
George Sauers, on the Opportunity Lost
My son was 10 when he first met Nathan Bowen and began playing tier 1 hockey for his youth travel program. Living in orlando, we drove 12 hours one way on weekends to practice in Huntsville. During those weekends in Huntsville and spending time with Nathan and his coaches (many of whom were UAH graduates) [...]
What UAH Hockey Means to Alyson Buck and Chris Bertagnolli
UAH hockey is special to both of us. I’m from New York, so I grew up in a “traditional” hockey market, and I loved hockey from the time I was little. When I came to college down here I had a great time telling all my friends from up north that we had a DI [...]
How to Help: Mid-November 2011
People have been asking how to help these days. If you haven’t heard, the money from outside donors appears to be there in terms of covering the operating budget of the hockey program. As such, we have hearts and minds to convince these days. You can contact members of the University of Alabama System Board [...]
Seeing potential from the Ohio State series
[The following are the views of the author, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of all administrators of Save UAH Hockey.] My wife, son and I traveled the nearly 600 miles from our home in Cary, N.C. to my hometown of Huntsville over the weekend for one purpose: UAH hockey. The flagship sport of [...]
Lisa Hagen’s Email to Governor Bentley
[Below is another email from a player parent. --GFM] Dear Governor Bentley: This morning, I read a newspaper article that discussed the efforts by State Rep. Phil Williams and potential investors to save the University of Alabama at Huntsville NCAA Division 1 Men’s Ice Hockey program. As a parent of one of the players, I [...]