November 12, 2024
by Mike McMahon/Staff Writer (@MikeMcMahonCHN)
American International’s administration informed members of its hockey team today that the program will return to Division II at the end of the 2024-25 season, ending a 27-year run as a Division I program.
Sources told College Hockey News the program was being dropped back to D-II because of “budgetary issues and the changing landscape of NCAA athletics.”
According to AIC’s latest EADA filing, men’s hockey had the highest expenditures of any non-football team at the school, totaling $1,773,427.
AIC’s program began in 1948. It was Division II until 1998 when it joined Division I and the MAAC. The rest of the school’s athletic programs compete in Division II.
For years, the program toiled…
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