Alaska Anchorage Seawolves men's ice hockey

UAA began its ice hockey program in 1979, playing 8 of its 31 games against Division II Alaska–Fairbanks (winning all) before beginning a full D-II schedule the following season. The Seawolves rose quickly in the Division II ranks, narrowly missing out on the NCAA tournament in 1984 but promoted the team to Division I that summer when the entire D-II division collapsed.[4]

Anchorage played as an independent for a year before being a founding member of the first west coast conference, the Great West Hockey Conference. The league was very short-lived, lasting only three seasons before the two non-Alaska schools dropped hockey entirely, but it did provide UAA with its first league title in 1987.[5] The Seawolves were once again without a conference in 1988–89, but a year later they posted their first 20-win season at the D-I level and were selected to the NCAA Tournament.

The Seawolves dropped both games to Lake Superior State but returned the following year after another 20-win campaign and this time they were able to win their first NCAA round, defeating the Boston College Eagles. 1991–92 provided UAA with its best record, with the team going 27–8–1 and garnering a third consecutive NCAA berth (the last such for UAA as of 2019). After one more winning season the Seawolves joined the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

The stability of their new conference came as a double-edged sword, however, as the Seawolves would spend the next 20 years finishing with losing records. To make matters worse the team would lose both games in the opening round of the WCHA tournament most of the time and only twice could manage a First Round series win.

The college hockey world changed in 2013 when the Central Collegiate Hockey Association collapsed due to the formation of the Big Ten and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.[6] This caused the WCHA to replace many of its departing members with weaker teams but even in the new WCHA UAA was still a bottom-half team. After making the conference semifinals the first season the Seawolves missed the playoffs each of the next five years.

In 2020, the university announced plans to cut the hockey program, along with skiing and gymnastics, due to sharp reductions in state funding. The University of Alaska Board of Regents offered the hockey team a chance at reinstatement in September if they could raise 2 seasons worth of expenses, approximately $3 million by February 2021, so the hockey program as a whole went on hiatus and did not compete for both the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons as its future was being determined. The fundraising was divided into 2 parts: $1.5 million in cash and the remainder in firm pledges. As of December 2020, the team began fundraising for the needed money.[7] On August 31, 2021, the university announced that enough donations had been received to save the program. The team is expected to return for the 2022–23 season.[8]

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As of completion of 2019–20 season. Records includes regular season and playoffs games.[10]

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As of February 2, 2021.[11]

No.	S/P/C	Player	Class	Pos	Height	Weight	DoB	Hometown	Previous team	NHL rights
3		Andrew Lane	Junior	D	5' 9" (1.75 m)	170 lb (77 kg)	1997-02-19	Howell, Michigan	Shreveport (NAHL)	—
4		Troy Robillard	Sophomore	D	6' 3" (1.91 m)	208 lb (94 kg)	1998-10-12	Coquitlam, British Columbia	Coquitlam (BCHL)	—
8		Drayson Pears	Junior	D	6' 0" (1.83 m)	190 lb (86 kg)	1998-03-09	Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia	Victoria (BCHL)	—
11		Joe Sofo	Senior	F	5' 10" (1.78 m)	185 lb (84 kg)	1996-08-07	Sylvania, Ohio	Coulee Region (NAHL)	—
14		Jared Nash	Junior	F	5' 11" (1.8 m)	195 lb (88 kg)	1998-01-16	Stratford, Ontario	Penticton (SJHL)	—
16		Zach Court	Junior	F	5' 10" (1.78 m)	186 lb (84 kg)	1997-01-04	Winnipeg, Manitoba	Merritt (BCHL)	—
17		Zac Masson	Senior	F	6' 2" (1.88 m)	205 lb (93 kg)	1996-02-06	Newmarket, Ontario	Langley (BCHL)	—
18		Daniel Rybarik	Freshman	F	5' 10" (1.78 m)	195 lb (88 kg)	1999-02-20	Calgary, Alberta	Salmon Arm (BCHL)	—
22		Olivier Gauthier	Freshman	F	5' 10" (1.78 m)	185 lb (84 kg)	1999-04-09	Mont-Tremblant, Quebec	Cowichan Valley (BCHL)	—
26		Aaron McPheters	Senior	D	5' 8" (1.73 m)	164 lb (74 kg)	1997-03-25	Anchorage, Alaska	Fairbanks (NAHL)	—
29		Preston Weeks	Freshman	D	6' 3" (1.91 m)	205 lb (93 kg)	1999-04-05	Soldotna, Alaska	Kenai River (NAHL)	—
30		Kris Carlson	Senior	G	6' 2" (1.88 m)	196 lb (89 kg)	1997-08-19	Centreville, Virginia	New Jersey (USPHL)	—
39		Kristian Stead	Senior	G	6' 2" (1.88 m)	192 lb (87 kg)	1996-10-17	Merritt, British Columbia	Nipawin (SJHL)	—
40		Brayden Camrud	Sophomore	F	5' 8" (1.73 m)	175 lb (79 kg)	1998-07-24	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	Humboldt (SJHL)	—

This is a list of Alaska Anchorage alumni were a part of an Olympic team.

Name	Position	Alaska Anchorage Tenure	Team	Year	Finish
Mat Robinson	Defenseman	2005–2009	CAN	2018, 2022	Bronze, 6th

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