St. Thomas Tommies (NCAA) women's ice hockey

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St. Thomas Tommies (NCAA) women's ice hockey
Institution:	University of St. Thomas
Location:	St. Paul, Minnesota
School founded:	1885
Enrollment:	6,199
Colors:	purple and white
Home Arena:	St. Thomas Ice Arena
Capacity:	1,400
Women's Team
Conference:	Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Coach:	Tom Palkowski
Conf. Championships:	2003, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

The St. Thomas Tommies is the name of the women's team representing the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. The team is a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

The women's program started with the 1998-99 season after playing as a joint team with the St. Catherine Wildcats for the 1997-98 season. The team has won or shared 4 regular season MIAC titles and 5 conference tournament titles and made 5 NCAA tournament appearances. The university imposed upon the women's hockey team a ban on post season play for the 2017-18 season following an alcohol incident in March of 2017.

Removal From MIAC

On May 22, 2019 the board that runs the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which is made up of the school presidents, announced that St. Thomas University was being removed from the conference involuntarily effective the spring of 2021. The release cites competitive parity as the main reason for the move. The university has been dominant in league competition accounting for about half of all MIAC championships (team and individual) since 2013. No announcement was made about the university's plans for joining a new conference.

Jump to Division I

The university is working of getting a waiver from the NCAA to make the jump from division III to Division I. The university has been accepted as a member of the Summit League. The Summit League does not sponsor either football,men's ice hockey or women's ice hockey but the possibility exists that the men's program may end up in the reformed Central Collegiate Hockey Association when it starts in 2021-21. The conference has seven members and the addition on St. Thomas would make a good fit geographically and balance the league with 8 members. The women's program is a possibility for the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's women's league. The process for moving from Division III to Division I usually takes 12 years but the NCAA can grant a waiver as the school is under a unique set of circumstances with be removed from a conference for being too good to maintain a competitive balance within the conference at the D-III level and that there is only one other D-I all sports university in the state of Minnesota.

Conferences

• Midwestern Collegiate Women's Hockey Alliance (1997-1998)
• Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1998-2021)
• Western Collegiate Hockey Association (2021-future)

Arenas

• Warner Coliseum (1997-2003)
• St. Thomas Ice Arena (2003-present)

Head Coaches

• Kevin Gorg (1998-2007) 142-75-12
• Tom Palkowski (2007-Present) 181-65-38 (as of end of 2019-20 season

Women's Year by Year Record

Season	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts	Finish	Conference Tournament	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Joint team with St. Catherine Wildcats
Midwest Women's Alliance										Overall Record
1997-98	12	0	11	1	15	59	1	-	N/A	12	0	11	1	15	59
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference										Overall Record
1998-99	10	2	8	0	22	64	4	5th of 6	Did not qualify	13	2	11	0	22	93
1999-00	14	4	9	1	42	62	5	6th of 8	Did not qualify	19	8	10	1	71	69
2000-01	18	12	5	1	90	52	25	3rd of 10	L, SF 4-1, 2-0 (St.Mary's)	26	16	9	1	115	76
2001-02	18	12	3	3	61	29	27	3rd of 10	L, SF 5-3 (St. Mary's)	26	14	9	3	89	57
2002-03	18	14	4	2	84	45	30	1st of 10	W, SF 1-0 (St. Mary's) W, F 4-1 (Gustavus Adolphus)	28	19	7	2	106	70
2003-04	18	16	1	1	85	22	33	1st of 10	W, SF 6-5 (2ot) (Augsburg L, F 3-2 (Gustavus Adolphus)	27	19	6	2	103	45
2004-05	18	16	1	1	106	19	33	2nd of 10	W, SF 8-1 (St. Olaf) L, F 3-2 (2ot) (Gustavus Adolphus)	27	21	4	2	136	36
2005-06	18	15	2	1	101	29	31	2nd of 10	W, SF 2-1 (Bethel) L, F 2-1 (ot) (Gustavus Adolphus)	27	21	5	1	129	47
2006-07	18	12	6	0	66	37	24	3rd of 10	W, SF 6-2 (St. Olaf) L, F 3-2 (Gustavus Adolphus)	27	15	12	0	91	67
2007-08	18	14	4	0	65	24	28	2nd of 10	W, SF 4-2 (Concordia) L, F 1-0 (Gustavus Adolphus)	27	21	6	0	104	40
2008-09	18	14	2	2	58	16	30	2nd of 10	W, SF 3-0 (Bethel) L, F 3-0 (Gustavus Adolphus)	26	18	5	3	78	32
2009-10	18	12	4	4	55	26	26	4th of 10	L, SF 4-3 (St. Catherine)	26	14	9	3	70	45
2010-11	18	10	4	4	43	22	24	T-2nd of 10	L, SF 4-2 (Bethel)	26	11	10	5	57	46
2011-12	18	11	6	1	52	28	23	3rd of 10	L, SF 4-1 (Concordia)	26	15	9	2	73	40
2012-13	18	13	4	1	54	27	27	2nd of 10	L, SF 2-1 (Concordia)	24	14	8	2	66	43
2013-14	18	14	2	2	52	27	30	1st of 10	W, SF 4-3 (ot) (Concordia) W, F 2-0 (Gustavus Adolphus)	30	20	7	3	80	53
2014-15	18	11	3	4	56	27	26	2nd of 10	W, SF 3-2 (Concordia) W, F 3-2 (Bethel)	28	14	10	4	83	66
2015-16	18	12	4	2	55	32	26	1st of 10	W, SF 2-1 (Concordia) W, F 2-1 (Bethel)	28	20	6	2	79	79
2016-17	18	9	5	4	52	41	22	4th of 10	W, QF 6-1 (Hamline) W, SF 3-2 (Gust. Adolphus) W, F 3-2 (ot) (Augsburg)	29	14	11	4	78	72
2017-18	18	12	1	5	66	24	29	T-1st of 10	Ineligible-Self imposed	25	16	3	6	83	41
2018-19	18	15	1	2	58	14	32	1st of 10	W, Sf 4-0 (Gust. Adolphus) W, F 2-0 (Hamline)	30	25	3	2	96	30
2019-20	18	11	6	1	58	31	23	4th of 10	L, QF 4-1 (St. Mary's)	26	12	10	4	71	48

NCAA Tournament Appearances

Season	First Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship	Third Place
2003	N/A	L, 5-1 (Wisconsin-River Falls Falcons)	N/A	N/A	N/A
2014	N/A	W, 5-0 (Wisconsin-Stevens Point Pointers)	L, 1-0 (ot) (Plattsburgh Cardinals)	N/A	L, 5-3 (Wisconsin-River Falls Falcons)
2015	N/A	L, 4-1 (Plattsburgh Cardinals)	N/A	N/A	N/A
2016	N/A	L, 4-1 (Wisconsin-River Falls Falcons)	N/A	N/A	N/A
2017	N/A	L, 4-2 (Plattsburgh Cardinals)	N/A	N/A	N/A
2019	Bye	W, 4-3 (Wisconsin-Eau Claire Blugolds)	L, 3-0 (Hamline Pipers)	N/A	L, 1-0 (Adrian Bulldogs)

Links

• Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's hockey website
• St. Thomas Tommies women's hockey website