{"id":41262,"date":"2016-01-22T09:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=41262"},"modified":"2016-01-26T16:31:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T23:31:03","slug":"ice-jacks-to-play-in-prescott-valley-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/ice-jacks-to-play-in-prescott-valley-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"IceJacks to play in Prescott Valley this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Arizona University IceJacks hockey teams take on Arizona State University this weekend at the <a href=\"http:\/\/prescottvalleyeventcenter.com\/events\/venueevents\/1-prescott-valley-event-center\">Prescott Valley Events Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NAU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometeamsonline.com\/teams\/?u=NAUIJ-1&amp;s=hockey&amp;t=c\">Division 2 team<\/a>\u00a0battles the Sun Devils at 7 p.m., Friday Jan. 22, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometeamsonline.com\/teams\/?u=NAUIJ-2&amp;s=hockey&amp;t=c\">Division 3 team<\/a> plays the Sun Devils at 7 p.m., Saturday Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kris Walsh<\/strong>, head coach of the IceJacks\u2019 Division 3 team, said facing ASU in Prescott Valley should bring good crowds and strengthen the reputation of NAU\u2019s hockey teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHockey is the fastest growing sport in North America and there is a big boom underway in the southwest,\u201d said Walsh, an alumnus who played on the IceJacks from 2000-2002. \u201cThe American Collegiate Hockey Association is a feeder organization for the NHL and this weekend\u2019s games will keep our teams on the map.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An IceJacks player recently put NAU on the international map after being selected to play on the American Collegiate Hockey Association\u2019s Division 2 Select Team. Senior <strong>Dillon Benjamin<\/strong>, an engineering major, played five games during a European tour that wrapped up Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey has been part of campus life since 1971, when a club team was formed by chemistry professor <strong>Gerald Caple<\/strong> following the completion of Flagstaff\u2019s Jay Lively Ice Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the games this weekend in Prescott Valley are still available and can be purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/prescottvalleyeventcenter.com\/tickets\">here.<\/a> President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong> will host a sold-out banquet for local NAU alumni prior to Friday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/ice-jacks-to-play-in-prescott-valley-this-weekend\/\">The Northern Arizona University IceJacks hockey teams take on Arizona State University this weekend at the Prescott Valley Events Center. NAU\u2019s Division 2 team\u00a0battles the Sun Devils at 7 p.m., Friday Jan. 22, and the Division 3 team plays the Sun Devils at 7 p.m., Saturday Jan. 23. Kris Walsh, head coach of the IceJacks\u2019&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":41263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1147,1146,1148],"class_list":["post-41262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-kris-walsh","tag-nau-icejacks","tag-nau-vs-asu-hockey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}