{"603554":{"#nid":"603554","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ice Hockey Team Travels to Columbus for ACHA National Tournament","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s club ice hockey team will travel to Columbus, Ohio, this week to compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division Three National Tournament.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIs it the team\u0026rsquo;s first time advancing to the tournament in more than 10 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tournament, which takes place March 13\u0026ndash;15, is the culmination of a breakout season for the Yellow Jackets that included an 18-4-1-1 record. Notable wins included two victories in the ACHA South Regional Tournament and winning the Scholar Shootout and ACC-South Challenge. The team only had four wins last year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0026rsquo;s vice president and goalie, Caleb Rudnicki, says that much of this season\u0026rsquo;s improvement is due to \u0026ldquo;team cohesiveness\u0026rdquo; and retaining players.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We did a lot better about keeping guys around this year,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;It means a lot to the older guys to make it this far.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is the first time that the team has traveled outside of the Southeast for a tournament. Rudnicki says that while there are a lot of unknowns, the team is still confident.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile in Columbus, players will also be volunteering at an elementary school \u0026mdash; teaching, talking about, and playing pickup hockey with the students. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team will provide updates throughout the tournament on Twitter \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/twitter.com\/gt_hockey\u0022\u003E@GT_Hockey\u003C\/a\u003E. The league will be live streaming all of the games for free \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLoGcdOwSpA5APSlQIxpHccaGvO5K0iFiA\u0022\u003Eon YouTube\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s club ice hockey team will travel to Columbus, Ohio, this week to compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division Three National Tournament.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s club ice hockey team will travel to Columbus, Ohio, this week to compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division Three National Tournament."}],"uid":"34671","created_gmt":"2018-03-12 19:56:31","changed_gmt":"2018-03-13 12:55:42","author":"mflatt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602951":{"id":"602951","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Ice Hockey","body":null,"created":"1519744087","gmt_created":"2018-02-27 15:08:07","changed":"1519744087","gmt_changed":"2018-02-27 15:08:07","alt":"Georgia Tech Ice Hockey","file":{"fid":"229812","name":"DSC00517.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC00517.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC00517.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":230640,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC00517.jpg?itok=Crh0O-Ug"}},"603555":{"id":"603555","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Ice Hockey","body":null,"created":"1520546331","gmt_created":"2018-03-08 21:58:51","changed":"1520546331","gmt_changed":"2018-03-08 21:58:51","alt":"","file":{"fid":"230055","name":"DSC_0783.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0783.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0783.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":143791,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC_0783.jpg?itok=7_VM5cvm"}}},"media_ids":["602951","603555"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"167014","name":"Sports"},{"id":"177348","name":"ice hockey"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMary Flatt\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute Communications\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}