Union College Hockey 
The Dutchmen

  • Union College Hockey Program Start Date - 1904
  • Venue - Frank L. Messa Rink
  • Capacity - 2225
  • Teamsite - Union College Dutchmen
  • Booster Club - GARNET BLADES, Friends of Union Athletics
  • Team Community Programs:Score for Kristen and the Kids, Serving Thanksgiving Dinner at the Schenectady YMCA, Working with Schenectady Youth Hockey, Albany Center for Disability Services Telethon
  • Ticket Information - Dutchmen Hockey Tickets
  • Conference - Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)
  • Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Teams - Brown, Clarkson, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton Tigers, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer, St Lawrence University, Union, Yale

Team Profile

Union College Hockey Coaches

Head Coach:

Phone #

Email  


Associate Head Coach:

Phone #

Email


Assistant Coach:

Phone #

Email

Rick Bennett

518-388-6570

bennette@union.edu


Jason Tapp

518-388-6571

tappj@union.edu


John Ronan

518-388-6504

ronanj@union.edu

Team Record

  • NCAA Tournament Record - D1 2-2
  • NCAA Tournament Appearances - D1 1(2011, '12)
  • NCAA Championships - None yet
  • ECAC Tournament Appearances - D1(16)(1994, '95, '97, 2000, '01, '03 to '13)
  • ECAC Championships - D1(2012, '13)

# of Seniors by Position - Forwards - 6, Defensemen - 1, Goaltender - 1

Team Breakdown by league

  • USHL - 9
  • BCHL - 7
  • OJHL - 5
  • AJHL - 1
  • NAHL - 1
  • USPHL - 1
  • Players to the NHL -None yet
  • Players Currently Playing in the NHL - None yet
  • Players to the Olympics - None yet
  • Prominent Hockey Alumni - Gary Temush
  • # Scholarships - 0

School Profile

  • Enrollment - 2133
  • Estimated Cost of Attendance - $55,000.00
  • Avg. SAT - 1300 (1600 scale) and 1940 (2400 scale)
  • Avg. ACT - 30
  • # of Majors - 40+
  • Most Popular Majors - Economics, General; English Language and Literature, General; Mechanical Engineering; Political Science and Government, General; and Psychology, General
  • Academic Calender Type: Trimester calendar (three 10-week terms) with extended winter break
  • Student-Faculty Ratio: 10:1
  • Average class size: 20 students
  • Freshman Retention Rate: 92.0
  • Prominent Alumni - Alan Horn, producer of Seinfeld and the Harry Potter movies; Rawson Marshall Thurber, who made Dodgeball and Magnum, P.I.; and Ilene Landress, executive producer of The Sopranos. Other distinguished alumni include Kate White, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine; Richard Templeton, CEO of Texas Instruments; and Baruch Samuel Blumberg, who discovered the Hepatitis B virus.
  • School site - Union

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