April 14, 2021 : By Ted Allen - Office of Communications & Public Engagement
Liberty ACHA Division I men’s hockey senior Quinn Ryan (left), DI women’s sophomore Yannick Truter, and DII men’s junior Charlie Wilkie, all forwards, are prepared to lead the Flames and Lady Flames in St. Louis and Minot and Bismarck, N.D., respectively.
It has been one year and one month since four of Liberty University’s five men’s and women’s hockey teams who qualified for the ACHA National Championships had their trip to Frisco, Texas, canceled by COVID-19.
This weekend, after a shortened season played mostly in the spring semester, three of those teams are renewing their national championship dreams, with the DI and DII men’s squads pursuing their first titles in St. Louis, Mo,. and Bismarck, N.D., respectively, and the top-ranked DI women in Minot, N.D., in search of their third consecutive crown.