The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), founded in 1938, is an association of community college and junior college athletic departments throughout the United States of America. It is held as Divisions and Regions. The current NJCAA holds 24 separate regions.
The NJCAA organized an ice hockey national championship from 1972-2017. It was an invitational tournament until 2011. Dakota-Bottineau won the final NJCAA national championship in 2017.
The final edition of the tournament was marred by an incident involving Erie Community College player Brandon Day who would skate out of the penalty box and level a referee. The incident occurred with 39 seconds left in the 3rd period. The game was subsequently ended and awarded to Dakota College at Bottineau. Video of incident
NJCAA National Champions[]
- 1972 Itasca State (MN)
- 1973 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1974 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1975 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1976 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1977 Rainy River (MN)
- 1978 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1979 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1980 DuPage (IL)
- 1981 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1982 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1983 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1984 Hibbing (MN)
- 1985 Hibbing (MN)
- 1986 North Dakota State-Bottineau (ND)
- 1987 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1988 DuPage (IL)
- 1989 Canton A&T (NY)
- 1990 DuPage (IL)
- 1991 North Dakota State-Bottineau (ND)
- 1992 SUNY Canton Tech (NY)
- 1993 Minnesota-Crookston (MN)
- 1994 Minnesota-Crookston (MN)
- 1995 North Country (NY)
- 1996 SUNY Canton (NY)
- 1997 SUNY Canton (NY)
- 1998 North Dakota State-Bottineau (ND)
- 1999 Rainy River (MN)
- 2000 SUNY Canton (NY)
- 2001 Hudson Valley (NY)
- 2002 SUNY Morrisville (NY)
- 2003 Minot State-Bottineau (ND)
- 2004 SUNY Morrisville (NY)
- 2005 SUNY Morrisville (NY)
- 2006 SUNY Morrisville (NY)
- 2007 Minot State-Bottineau (ND)
- 2008 Minot State-Bottineau (ND)
- 2009 Minot State-Bottineau (ND)
- 2010 Dakota-Bottineau (ND)
- 2011 Erie (NY)
- 2012 Monroe CC (NY)
- 2013 Williston State (ND)
- 2014 Williston State (ND)
- 2015 Erie (NY)
- 2016 Dakota-Bottineau (ND)
- 2017 Dakota-Bottineau (ND)