FULL 2019-20 SCHEDULE
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State women's hockey team and head coach Jeff Kampersal have officially announced its regular season schedule for the upcoming 2019-20 season. The schedule features 16 home games at Pegula Ice Arena, several marquee road matchups including a Thanksgiving weekend tournament, and its 20-game conference slate within College Hockey America (CHA).
In addition, the Nittany Lions will host an exhibition game against the Durham West Jr. Lightning of the PWHL Sept. 21 at Pegula Ice Arena.
"We are busy preparing for the 2019-20 season," head coach Jeff Kampersal said. "For nonconference games, we are looking forward to continuing some series from last year and excited to face off against some new opponents, including a trip to Wisconsin and the Windjammer Thanksgiving Classic, hosted by the University of Vermont. The nonconference competition will help ready us for our well-coached CHA opponents."
The Nittany Lions have pieced together an impressive nonconference schedule that features new matchups for the program, including defending national champion and traditional Big Ten opponent Wisconsin as an early season test. Penn State begins its season against second-year Division I opponent Holy Cross Sept. 27-28.
Penn State faces Wisconsin on the road the following weekend (Oct. 4-5) before hosting RPI in its home-opening series Oct. 11-12. The Nittany Lions play two more nonconference series to close out October at Providence Oct. 18-19 and at home against Boston University Oct. 25-26.
The CHA conference schedule starts with a road set at Robert Morris Nov. 1-2. After a pair of bye weeks, the Nittany Lions will host defending CHA Tournament champion Syracuse Nov. 23-24 at Pegula.
Penn State will travel to Vermont for Thanksgiving weekend to play in the four-team Windjammer Thanksgiving Classic featuring the host Catamounts, Clarkson, and Minnesota State Mankato Nov. 29-30.
The Nittany Lions will play three-straight home series against RIT (Dec. 6-7), New Hampshire (Jan. 3-4), and Lindenwood (Jan. 10-11) to end the season's first half and begin the new calendar year. The regular season will conclude with seven CHA series, including three at home, prior to the CHA Tournament March 5-7.
The winner of the CHA Tournament will receive an automatic bid to the eight-team NCAA Tournament field. The tournament begins March 14 at on-campus sites prior to the NCAA Frozen Four hosted by Boston University March 20-22.
Several game times and the location of the CHA Tournament have yet to be announced. Game times and dates are also subject to change. Ticket information will also be announced at a later date.
The Nittany Lions are coming off a 13-win season and a second-straight CHA semifinal appearance under now third-year coach Jeff Kampersal. Penn State had four CHA award recipients in 2018-19, the most in a single season in program history.
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