2024-25 NCAA Women's Independents

This is the 2024-25 NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III Women's Independent ice hockey teams.

Future conference memberships and changes[]

The formation of Little East Conference (which was originally planned as a men's conference only), State University of New York Athletic Conference (morphing from the Northeast Women's Hockey League) , and Middle Atlantic Conference (seperating from the United Collegiate Hockey Conference) as well as the establishment of Little East Conference and Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference women's leagues make it so that all of the teams that are presently playing independent schedules will end up in a conference within the next few seasons as some conferences losing teams may need to add additional teams to be able to keep their automatic bids to the NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire announced that they would be starting new men's and women's hockey programs. Both will play an American Collegiate Hockey Association club schedule for 2021-22 and would transition to NCAA Division III status for 2022-23 playing as an independent. The team is joining the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference for 2024-25.

The Worcester State Lancers women's ice hockey was announced as being established for the 2021-22 season. The program was announced shortly after Becker College which was also located in Worcester, Massachusetts announced it was closing effective the end of the 2020-21 academic year. Ironically, the team would end up hiring the now former team's head coach and would be playing out of the same arena, the Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center. The start of the program was pushed back to 2022-23 due to issues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The team is joining the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference for 2024-25.

On November 16, 2021 Hilbert College in Hamburg, New York announces the formation of the Hilbert Hawks women's ice hockey which is due to begin play with the 2022-23 season, no conference affiliation was announced with the introduction of the program.^[1]

On April 21, 2022 the North Adams, Massachusetts based Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts announced the return of the D-III level men's team, which had been dormant since 2003, and the addition of a D-III level women's team to begin play with the 2023-24 playing season.^[2] The team is joining the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference for 2024-25.

On December 9, 2022 the New England Hockey Conference announced that the Albertus Magnus Falcons women's ice hockey team will be added to the conference (along with the men's team) for the 2024-25 season.^[3]

As part of a June 14, 2023 announcement of the provisional addition of the Anna Maria Amcats men's ice hockey team and the Rivier University Raiders men's ice hockey team to the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference as affiliate members for the 2024-25 playing season the likely addition of women's ice hockey in the not too distant future, likely in 2024-25.^[4] This announcement would also put the Worcester State Lancers women's ice hockey team in a conference as well.

On May 15, 2024 the United Collegiate Hockey Conference announced the addition of Albertus Magnus Falcons (men's and women's). Elmira Soaring Eagles (men's and women's), Hilbert Hawks (women's), and the newly formed programs of St. John Fisher Cardinals (men's and women's) to the conference for the 2025-26 season.^[5]

Team	Location	Arena
Albertus Magnus Falcons (To United Collegiate Hockey Conference for 2025-26)	New Haven, Connecticut	Ralph Walker Skating Rink
Hilbert Hawks (To United Collegiate Hockey Conference for 2025-26)	Hamburg, New York	Holiday Rinks (Cheektowaga, New York)
St. John Fisher Cardinals (To United Collegiate Hockey Conference for 2025-26)	Pittsford, New York	Rochester Ice Center (Fairport, New York)

To be added upon completion of the season.