NEWTOWN, Pa. (Women’s Ice Hockey) – In the first year of Ice Hockey operating as an Automatic Qualifying sport, the Wilkes Colonels were selected as the favorite in the 2024-25 Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Women’s Ice Hockey Coaches’ Preseason Poll, voted on by the MAC women’s ice hockey coaches. The Colonels collected five first-place votes from opposing coaches for 47 points.
Below is the complete 2024-25 MAC Women’s Ice Hockey Coaches’ Preseason Poll.
| Rank |
Team |
Points |
(1st Place Votes) |
| 1 |
Wilkes |
47 |
(5) |
| 2 |
Arcadia |
45 |
(3) |
| 3 |
Alvernia |
37 |
|
| 4 |
Lebanon Valley |
26 |
|
| 5 |
King's |
24 |
|
| 6 |
Stevenson |
19 |
|
| 7 |
Neumann |
14 |
|
| 8 |
Hood |
12 |
|
The Colonels finished with a 18-7-2 overall record in the 2023-24 season and 12-6-2 in UCHC play.
Wilkes defeated Arcadia 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the UCHC tournament to advance to the semifinals. The Colonels fell 0-4 to Nazareth University.
The 2024-25 season is set to begin on Friday, November 1. The 2024 MAC Champion will be crowned from a double round-robin regular-season schedule with the semifinals on March 1 and the finals on March 8.