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Buffalo is set to host some of the most intense and physical hockey action in the world this month when it welcomes the 2025 World Para Ice Hockey Championship and for those who haven’t seen para hockey, or might think they know what it is solely by name, the event is an opportunity to showcase the sport and open some eyes.

The event will take place May 24–31 at LECOM Harborcenter and feature 130 athletes from around the world, led by the United States and Canada while including China, Czechia, Germany, Korea, Norway and Slovakia.

“The misconception for those who’ve never seen it before is when you put the word para on it and they think it’s like a charity game, and it’s not that at all,” said Dan Brennan, USA Hockey sled hockey general manager. “When the teams get out there, they play extremely hard. It’s a very physical game. There’s nothing soft about it. Unlike able–body hockey, when our guys go into the boards, they go into the lower part where the boards don’t move versus the glass that bends and pushes you back.

“People will be thrilled to see the skill level — especially in the last five years it has really changed the game to a much more skill-based game — and I think especially when we play Canada, they’re going to see a heck of a battle.”

This will mark the fourth time the event has taken place in America. Buffalo hosted in 2015 and becomes the first U.S. destination to host it twice.

“Our overall history of supporting and hosting adaptive sports plays a part,” said Patrick Kaler, president and chief executive officer at Visit Buffalo Niagara. “We’ve hosted a myriad of other types of adaptive sports, from wheelchair hockey, basketball, lacrosse, curling to water sports as well. I think that’s one of the things that has put us on the map for being able to host adaptive sports in Buffalo. We’re a big city, but without a big city feel. And we’re very accessible.”

Buffalo a Perfect Fit

There are several reasons Buffalo won the bid aside from its history of hosting successful adaptive sports events.

The Marriott at LECOM Harborcenter is attached to the facility, making the trip to the arena as easy as pushing an elevator button. The Harborcenter is a training facility for the Buffalo Sabres as well as several area colleges and universities, and features two NHL-sized ice sheets. It’s located in an entertainment district that includes restaurants and a brewery on the waterfront, which gives visitors plenty to see and do between games.

“The Harborcenter is a very unique hotel inside an arena,” said Brennan, who has traveled with the team for 19 years. “When you’re dealing with athletes with disabilities, to be able to just get in the elevator and you’re down to your locker room immediately is something really special. So that was a huge part of Buffalo winning the bid. But overall it’s a great hockey city and our guys are really looking forward to playing there.”

Another advantage Buffalo has is the community support. The city loves its Bills during football season, but the Sabres have a loyal hockey fanbase. Youth, adult and amateur hockey events also take place regularly in Buffalo and the sport is the number one generator for sports tourism in the city.

“The community support will be huge on this,” Kaler said. “We typically host an amateur hockey event every weekend out of the year. So we are definitely a hockey town. And this is a very special hockey tournament. In para ice hockey, these athletes are truly unique in what they do on the ice and they are serious about their sport.”

“Historically we’ve always had a good fan base and players in Buffalo,” Brennan added. “In the past we had a bunch of players from the Buffalo area, so it’s one of the regions that really got sled/para hockey going.”

Kaler is expecting good crowds at the 2,000–seat Harborcenter arena and says this event will total about 2,400 room nights with an estimated economic impact of about $1.85 million. Kaler and his team are looking to spotlight the city to visitors in hopes of bringing them back.

“This puts us on the world stage,” Kaler said. “These are the types of events where people will go back home and talk about it with their friends and family. It’s our opportunity to really showcase our destination, to show what we have to offer and that we are the city of good neighbors. Some people may not know about Buffalo, or they may have ideas of what they think Buffalo is. In May, they’re going to find some of the best weather. We’re a lakefront city with amazing views of Lake Erie, so the sunsets are going to be fantastic. It’s just a great way to start off our summer season.”

USA Hockey Happy to be Home

Brennan says it means a great deal to the Team USA players and their families to be playing on home soil. At last year’s World Para Ice Hockey Championship in Calgary, host Canada stunned the favored U.S. side in the gold medal game 2–1, handing the Americans their first loss in three years.

“It’s very important to win gold,” Brennan said. “It was a great lesson for us last year because for a while there we were getting pretty complacent. We hadn’t lost a game in three years. It was not the best time to lose, obviously. But here we are now and I think our guys have really learned from it. They’re back to being very hungry and really making each other accountable to be ready to play. It’d be very disappointing if they didn’t come home with gold.”

While the competition on the ice is fierce, the tournament also provides a chance for players from eight nations to spend time together over the course of week. Brennan says over the past few years USA Hockey has trained with Norway and the Czech team and the NGB has gone out of its way to help the sport and expand it.

“I think it’s the most wonderful part of being involved in an international sport,” Brennan said. “If you don’t take advantage of those relationships, you’re really missing out. In the end, we all need each other. And when the game’s over, they should be able to enjoy each other’s company and talk about their similarities, not just the differences.”

Brennan says during his 19 years with USA Hockey, the games against Canada have been the most physical, brutal and competitive that he’s seen, but both teams have a lot of respect for each other. As the two nations battle in Buffalo next week, there’s the real-world issue of United States and Canada relations souring in recent months due to the political climate.

“In Buffalo, the Canadians are our friends. We have always had our ‘Buffalo Loves Canada’ campaign. That’s something that we are still pushing out very strongly,” Kaler said. “And the good thing about sporting events such as this is that we can put those types of political differences aside and come together for the overall sportsmanship, for the overall spirit of what this tournament actually means.

“So I think this will truly be a showing of what para ice hockey means to these athletes and we want them to have a great experience in Buffalo and in the United States. Whether they’re from Canada or Korea or the Czech Republic — whatever country it is. This will hopefully help strengthen our overall sentiment towards our friends in Canada, no matter what is being said in Washington, D.C.”

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State’s women’s golf team made a run after making the turn onto the back nine of the third round on Sunday but could not close the gap and the Spartans finished in 18th place among 30 teams at the NCAA Championship, being played at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.

The 30-team field, playing on the par 72, 6,330-yard course at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa, was cut to 15 teams after Sunday’s third round of stroke play and the Spartans fell just six shots shy of making the cut.

Top-ranked Stanford was the leader in the field at 23-under par 841, with Northwestern second at 8-under par 856, Oregon third at 2-under par 862, Southern California fourth at even-par 864 and Florida State in fifth place at 3-over par 867.

UCLA and Mississippi State tied for 14th place at 18-over par 882.  Michigan State finished in 18th place at 24-over par 888 (2904-303-291).

The Spartans entered the third round in 20th place following a 15-over par 303 in Saturday’s second round but played the first nine holes on Sunday (starting on the 10th hole) in 8-over par and fell to 23rd place and were 10 shots off the cut line.

Once MSU moved to the front nine for its final nine holes, the team moved. Seniors Katie Lu and Brooke Biermann posted birdies on the 1st hole and the Spartans played the first six holes of their back nine in 7-under par, pulling to within four shots of the cut line.  That was as close as they would get, posting the team’s best round of the weekend at 3-over par 291.

Playing in her final NCAA Tournament, Lu was the team’s top finisher, tying for 45th place at 5-over par 221 (72-78-71). She posted a 1-under par 71 in the final round, with four birdies, and was one shot off the cutline to advance to Monday’s final round of stroke play. Lu, who twice advanced to the fourth round of the NCAA Championships, will leave Michigan State ranked fourth all-time in scoring average.

Junior Paula Balanzategui tied for 63rd place at 7-over par 223 (75-73-75), including a 3-over par 75 in the final round. She tied for 10th in the field with 40 pars during the three rounds.

Senior Brooke Biermann and sophomore Ana Sofia Murcia both tied for 76th place at 8-over par 224.

Biermann, who will leave Michigan State ranked third all-time in scoring and owns three of the top-20 single-season marks in program history, shot an even-par 72 to finish at 8-over par 224 (75-77-72). Biermann had four birdies on her final nine holes.

Murcia shot a 1-over par 73 on Sunday with a pair of birdies to finish at 8-over par 224 (73-78-73).

Junior Taylor Kehoe tied for 91st place at 10-over par 226 (74-75-77), closing with a 5-over par 77 on Sunday.

 

MICHIGAN STATE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES

• Michigan State closed out one of its most successful seasons with a runner-up finish at the Big Ten Championships and followed that with a third-place finish at the NCAA Normal Regional the 25th time in the last 26 years being selected to the regionals.
• The Spartans then advanced to the NCAA Championships for the fourth time in the last five years, the 17th time in program history and the 15th time under Head Coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll.
• The team’s 18th place finish marked the program’s third-straight top-20 finish and the fourth in the last five years.

TULSA, Okla — Union High School student Kelis Robinson considered several colleges before choosing the University of Arkansas to study architecture.

“I also visited OU, OSU, KU,” she said.

To pay for college, she already has a gymnastics scholarship that will pay part of her expenses, and she expects to hear back on other scholarships she’s applied for within a few days.

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To cover the rest, her parents are weighing their options.

“These are our expenses that we have right now and this is our savings that we have now,” Lakeia Robinson said. “Going on the college website and just getting an estimates of about how much will tuition costs for a student living on campus, you know, for a year and then just trying to figure out can this amount fit in our budget.”

Like many families, to fill in the gaps the Robinson’s are considering student loans but haven’t decided whether to go with a private loan through a bank or credit union, or take out a federal student loan.

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” I’m going based off of he interest rates, Lakeia Robinson said. “It’s like which loan could give me the best interest rate at this moment in time when it comes to paying it back because ideally I want to pay back, you know, the least amount as possible.”

Federal student loan interest rates for undergraduate direct federal loans will adjust to 6.392% starting July 1st.

Banks and credit unions may offer cheaper rates on private student loans at that time, but College Financial Aid Counselor Andrew Pentis says there’s more to consider than just the interest rate.

“In most cases,” said Pentis, “it makes sense for families to still prioritize federal loans over private loans because if they ever to run into problems repaying that debt, they’ll have access to some pretty important protections that they may not have with private loans.”

Lakeia Robinson is also considering an option offered by her daughter’s chosen college.

“There’s a monthly payment option, she said, “so we do not have to come up with all the money up-front.”

She says this takes the pressure off the family budget and she recommend students and parents check to see if the option is available at their chosen school as well as they plan for how to pay for college.

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