The Goldwater Group and Stafford Sports Hired as Consultants for the NCHC

Here is the latest press release from the newly formed NCHC.

BETHESDA, Md. - The newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference has engaged two of the country's leading sports consulting companies, The Goldwater Group and Stafford Sports, to handle planning, coordination and execution of several key projects.

After coordinating the July 13 news conference in Colorado Springs, CO, to officially announce the formation of men's college hockey's newest premier league, The Goldwater Group, based in Bethesda, MD, and Stafford Sports, of Medford, NJ, will work on multiple tasks on behalf of the conference's six founding members: Colorado College, University of Denver, Miami University, 2011 NCAA champion University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Nebraska Omaha and University of North Dakota.

The consultant team has simultaneously commenced work on a national search for the conference's first commissioner; a research and assessment process of prospective, additional members with no specific, pre-determined limit on the final number of institutions; investigating the best-possible media platforms, including a broadcast package, to be in place before the conference's inaugural season in 2013-14; and identifying viable venues for a post-season championship game.

"As the athletic directors were exploring the possibility of forming a new conference, the complexity of multi-faceted needs was very apparent and we were fortunate to engage and

partner with The Goldwater Group and Stafford Sports as our consultants," said North Dakota Athletic Director Brian Faison. "I know I speak for all of the founding members in saying we

appreciate the broad expertise, knowledge, responsiveness and leadership of our consultant team."