The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference.

The 2005 NCAA Frozen Four hockey tourney finals is comprised entirely of teams from the WCHA.

There are 12 member schools in all; the men's division operates with 10 members, while the women's division has eight.

• University of Alaska Anchorage (men only)
• Bemidji State University (women only; men compete in College Hockey America)
• Colorado College (men only)
  • 1-time WCHA men's champions
  • 2-time NCAA men's champions (1950, 1957)
• University of Denver (men only)
  • 14-time WCHA men's champions
  • 6-time NCAA men's champions (1958, 1960, 1961, 1968, 1969, 2004)
• Michigan Technological University (men only)
  • 9-time WCHA men's champions
  • 3-time NCAA men's champions (1962, 1965, 1975)
• University of Minnesota
  • 12-time WCHA men's champions
  • 3-time WCHA women's champions
  • 5-time NCAA men's champions (1974, 1976, 1979, 2002, 2003)
  • 2-time NCAA women's champions (2004, 2005)
• University of Minnesota Duluth
  • 2-time WCHA men's champions
  • 3-time WCHA women's champions
  • 3-time NCAA women's champions (2001, 2002, 2003)
• Minnesota State University Mankato
• University of North Dakota
  • 7-time WCHA men's champions
  • 7-time NCAA men's champions (1959, 1963, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1997, 2000)
• Ohio State University (women only; men compete in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association)
• St. Cloud State University
  • 1-time WCHA men's champions
• University of Wisconsin
  • 11-time WCHA men's champions
  • 5-time NCAA men's champions (1973, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1990)

External links

Official WCHA site