MANHATTAN, Kan. – For the second time this summer, the Kansas State men’s golf team added a transfer for the upcoming 2025-26 season as Shea Harmeson has signed to play for the Wildcats, head coach Grant Robbins announced Wednesday.
 
Harmeson joins the Wildcats after spending the last three seasons at Saginaw Valley State.
 
“We are excited to welcome Shea to our Wildcat golf family,” Robbins said. “He has an interesting background having played ice hockey throughout high school and for a couple of years in college. Once he started focusing solely on golf, his game really took off. He brings a great deal of experience, and his competitiveness will be a huge asset to our program. He had a great year having been in contention numerous times and has shown the ability to close out tournaments and win. I know he is excited to show what he can do at the Big 12 level.”
 
After splitting time with the SVSU club ice hockey team for two years, Harmeson’s concentration on golf paid dividends during the 2024-25 season. The Traverse City, Michigan, native captured a pair of victories – including the individual title at the 2025 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championship – while totaling a 72.61 scoring average en route to earning First Team All-GLIAC honors.
 
Harmeson earned the individual conference title with a 36-hole score of 8-under par 136, which included a final-round score of 7-under par 66 to tie his collegiate low. He also picked up a victory in the Battle at Brunswick after carding a 54-hole score of 1-over par 217, and he followed that up with the lowest 54-hole score of his collegiate career at 8-under par 208 in the Findlay Spring Invitational to tie for second place. In addition to his victories and tie for second, Harmeson produced two other top-10 finishes and totaled nine top-20 showings.
 

As a sophomore in 2023-24, Harmeson earned second team all-conference accolades after producing a 73.86 scoring average over 22 rounds with two top-10 finishes. He opened his sophomore campaign by winning the B&R Investments Bulldog Classic at 3-under par 210, which included a final-round total of 66. He also tied for second place in the Sea Trail Intercollegiate with a 36-hole score of 2-under par 142.
 

Last summer, Harmeson advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2024 Michigan Amateur thanks to match-play victories of 3&1, 2 Up and 5&4 after tying for 30th place in stroke play at 6-over par 148.
 
Harmeson joins a 2025-26 K-State men’s golf signing class that includes transfer Max Reynolds (Doncaster, U.K.; Lincoln Memorial University) in addition to freshmen Oliver Toyer (Cambridgeshire, England) and Ville Virkkala (Espoo, Finland).

 

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – The Air Force hockey team will open the 2025-26 season with an exhibition game at Omaha, Oct. 3, followed by the next four games at home.

After the exhibition game at Omaha, Air Force hosts a pair of games against local rivals Denver and Colorado College and then a series against St. Thomas.

The Falcons host Denver on Friday, Oct. 10, at Cadet Ice Arena. The Pioneers, the 2022 and 2024 NCAA Champions, won 31 games and reached the NCAA National Semifinals last season, before falling to the eventual NCAA Champion Western Michigan in double overtime at the Frozen Four.

The battle for the Pikes Peak Trophy resumes on Saturday, Oct. 11, with a single-game against Colorado College at the Cadet Ice Arena. Since the trophy’s creation in 2013, each team has won the trophy four times with three ties.  

After a home series against St. Thomas on Oct. 17-18, the first meeting since St. Thomas went Division I in 2021, Air Force opens Atlantic Hockey play on the road at RIT, Oct. 24-25. The second half of the season opens at the Arizona State Desert Classic, Jan. 2-3, with a field that includes ASU, Alaska-Anchorage and Michigan Tech.

As part of the AHA schedule, Air Force will play Army four times this season, twice in West Point (Nov. 21 and 23) and twice at Cadet Ice Arena (Feb. 20-21).

All 10 Atlantic Hockey teams will make the playoffs again this season. In the opening round, the top six teams will get a bye while the No. 7 and No. 8 seeds will host a single game against No. 10 and No. 9 on Tuesday, March 3. The AHA quarterfinals (March 6-8) and the semifinals (March 13-15) will all be best-of-three series at the site of the higher-seeded team. The AHA championship game will be a single game on Saturday, March 21, at the site of the highest remaining seed.

 

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DULUTH — Proctor’s A.J. Reyelts has committed to Minnesota Duluth for the future. The former Rails goaltender announced his commitment to the Bulldogs on Wednesday

via Instagram.

“I am extremely proud and excited to announce my commitment to play hockey for the UMD Bulldogs,”

Reyelts wrote on Instagram.

“I would like to thank God, my family, friends, teammates, and coaches who have helped me get to this point.”

The 19-year-old Reyelts

was previously committed to Lindenwood,

but re-opened his recruitment this spring. Lindenwood head coach Bill Muckalt has since left the Lions

to become the head coach at Michigan Tech.

The

2024 Duluth News Tribune All-Area Player of the Year,

Reyelts played junior hockey in the United States Hockey League in 2024-25 with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. He’ll play in major junior in the Western Hockey League in 2025-26 with the Penticton Vees, the now former British Columbia Junior Hockey League franchise that is making the move up from Canadian Junior A.

Major junior players will be eligible to play NCAA hockey

starting in 2025-26. UMD already has

one major junior player from the Western Hockey League verbally committed

for 2025-26, defenseman Grayden Siepmann.

Reyelts posted an .890 save percentage and 2.66 goals against average in 46 regular season games with the RoughRiders in 2024-25 after finishing with a .942 save percentage and 1.72 GAA as a senior at Proctor in 2023-24.

UMD has one other goaltender in its recruiting pipeline, 18-year-old

Carl Axelsson of Sweden.

He played most of 2024-25 in the North American Hockey League with the Austin Bruins, finishing with a .937 save percentage and 1.74 GAA in 19 games.

The Bulldogs

have two new goaltenders arriving on campus in the fall of 2025

following the departures of freshman Klayton Knapp and junior Zach Sandy via

the transfer portal

following 2024-25. Scott Sandelin is bringing in sophomore

Ethan Dahlmeir,

a freshman transfer from Miami, and

Cole Sheffield

will be a freshman. Chicago Blackhawks draft pick Adam Gajan is back for his sophomore year.

Former Bulldogs captain Noah Cates has signed a four-year contract extension with the Philadelphia Flyers

worth $4 million per season.

The native of Stillwater, Minnesota, has 102 career points in 235 NHL games, having posted 40 goals and 62 assists in his first three-plus NHL seasons.

Cates, 26, is coming off a career-best 16 goals in 2024-25. A 2017 fifth-round draft pick of Philadelphia, he made his pro debut with the Flyers shortly after his Bulldogs career came to an end in April 2022.

Cates played four seasons at UMD from 2018-2022, winning an NCAA title as a freshman in 2018-19 and serving as captain as a junior and senior. He played for the United States at the 2019 World Junior Championship and 2022 Olympics.

• Former Bulldogs forward Ben Steeves has reached the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup Finals with the Charlotte Checkers, who now await the winner of the

  Abbotsford-Texas series in the West.

  Steeves played two seasons with UMD from 2022-24 before turning pro early, signing with the Florida Panthers as an undrafted free agent. Steeves has 13 goals and 20 assists through 72 games of his rookie season, including three goals and two assists in 12 postseason games.

The Pittsburgh Penguins have named Dan Muse the 23rd head coach in franchise history, it was announced today by President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas.

“During this process, we met with many candidates who we felt would have been a fit as the next head coach of the Penguins, but ultimately, Dan Muse stood out as the best choice. What separated Dan was his ability to develop players, win at all levels where he has been a head coach and his consistent success coaching special teams in the NHL,” said Dubas. “From his success in developing college and junior players, to his impactful work with veteran players during his time in the NHL, Dan has shown a proven ability to connect with players at all stages of their careers and help them to reach their potential.”

“Additionally, his leadership of special teams units at the NHL level in both Nashville and New York produced elite results consistently. His overall body of work, attention to detail and vision for our group showed us that he is the best coach to take our team forward. We’re excited to welcome Dan, and his family, to the city of Pittsburgh.”

Muse, 42, joins the Penguins with 20 years of coaching experience, including five seasons in the NHL as an assistant coach with the New York Rangers (2023-25) and Nashville Predators (2017-20). Muse helped guide his teams to three divisional titles (Nashville in 2017-18 and ’18-19; New York in 2023-24), as well as two President’s Trophies during his five seasons in the NHL, with Nashville and New York achieving the feat in 2017-18 and ‘23-24, respectively.

As part of his duties, Muse ran Nashville’s penalty killing unit, which ranked fourth overall in the NHL over his two full seasons (2017-19) with the club. He assumed the same role with New York from 2023-25, helping the Rangers’ penalty kill to the fourth-highest PK success rate and second-best net penalty killing percentage in that span.

A native of Canton, Massachusetts, Muse has won championships at the NCAA, USHL, and IIHF U18 and U20 level.

Muse began his coaching career at the collegiate level, primarily spending six seasons with Yale University as an assistant coach (2009-14) and associate head coach (2015), helping the Bulldogs to the National Championship in 2013. Prior to Yale, he spent one season at Sacred Heart University (2008-09) and Williams College (2007-08) after beginning his coaching career at Milton Academy in 2005.

Following his time at the NCAA level, Muse served as the head coach of the Chicago Steel of the United States Hockey League from 2015-17. During the 2016-17 season, Muse led Chicago to the top record in the Eastern Conference and third-best record in the USHL en route to the franchise’s first-ever Clark Cup Championship.

Muse has substantial experience with USA Hockey, serving as a head coach at the National Team Development Program from 2020-23. Muse served as the head coach of the Under-18 Team in 2020-21 and ’22-23, leading the squad to the gold medal at the 2023 World Under-18 Championship. That season, the team set a single-season NTDP record with 16 wins over NCAA opponents during the regular season under Muse’s leadership. He spent the ’21-22 season as the head coach of the Under-17 Team. Throughout his three years with the Program, Muse coached the likes of forwards Rutger McGroarty, Ryan Leonard and Will Smith as well as defensemen Zeev Buium and Luke Hughes during their development stages.

Additionally on the international stage, Muse served as the video coach at two World Junior Championships (2013, ’14), winning a gold medal in 2013.

Muse graduated from Stonehill College in 2005 where he enjoyed a four-year playing career before moving into coaching. He and his wife, Maureen, have four children–Fiona, Niamh, Kieran and Honora.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross men’s ice hockey team has announced its 34-game regular season schedule for the 2025-26 season. The Crusaders will play eight non-conference games and 26 Atlantic Hockey games.
 
The team will open the new season on the road against Hockey East’s Northeastern on Saturday, Oct. 4 at Matthews Arena. A week later, the Crusaders will travel to Orono, Maine to take on another Hockey East opponent in Maine. The two-game set on Friday, Oct. 10 and Saturday, Oct. 11 will be the first meeting between the two teams since the 2003-04 season.

Atlantic Hockey play begins for the Crusaders with a single game matchup at Mercyhurst on Saturday, Oct. 18, before Holy Cross hosts their home opener on Tuesday, Oct. 21 against the ECAC’s Quinnipiac.

 

Atlantic Hockey matchups continue for the Crusaders beginning with a two game set at Army (Oct. 24-25), home sets against Sacred Heart (Oct. 30-31) and Niagara (Nov. 7-8), and a trip to Air Force (Nov. 14-15). Holy Cross will play three non-conference games in Alaska-Anchorage (Nov. 20-21) and a single-game at Quinnipiac (Nov. 26), before finishing out the first half with a single Atlantic Hockey matchup against Mercyhurst (Dec. 6).

 

Holy Cross will hit the ground running after the holiday break with a home-and-home rematch of the Atlantic Hockey Championship game on Friday, Jan. 2 at Bentley and Saturday, Jan. 3 at home against the reigning champions. The final non-conference game of the season will be on Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Hart Center against Hockey East’s Merrimack.

 

The final stretch of the 2025-26 regular season includes two-game road sets at Robert Morris (Jan. 23-24), Canisius (Feb. 13-14), and Sacred Heart (Feb. 20-21), home sets against Air Force (Jan. 16-17), Army (Jan. 29-30), and RIT (Feb. 27-28), and a home-and-home with Bentley (Feb. 6-7).

The Atlantic Hockey Tournament will begin on March 3 with the 7-10 seeds facing off in play-in matchups and culminate with the championship game on March 21.

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All dates and opponents are subject to change.

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There’s only a couple of months until Penn State women’s hockey takes the ice at Pegula Ice Arena.

The 2025-26 full schedule was released Wednesday and boasts just eight home series with the first on Sept. 25-26 against St. Lawrence.

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱-𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗟𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣 We’ll see you soon, Nittany Nation! @TheRoarZone | @GoPSUsports : https://t.co/9BWonui9z5#WeAre #HockeyValley pic.twitter.com/Hc6hmA4FFe

— Penn State Women’s Hockey (@PennStateWHKY) June 4, 2025

With a road-game heavy season, the blue and white will face opponents like Vermont, Delaware and Robert Morris early into the slate.

Penn State is coming off a 31-6-1 record in the previous season, while going 19-1 in the AHA. It will look to claim a fourth straight conference title this season. 

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