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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY 1 Conference1 NCAA Tournament Championship Appearance PREMIER ACADEMICS At Lebanon Valley College, you’ll be transformed through undergraduate and graduate programs that will prepare you 2017-18 for a lifetime of success. NUMBERS TO KNOW Across every department and major, LVC professors and students learn and 1 explore in dynamic pursuit of creative UCHC Coach of the Year solutions to real problems. Hands-on All-UCHC Honoree learning, including extensive student- Academic All-MAC Pick faculty research opportunities in almost every major, is a way of life. Challenging FACILITIES and expansive, our curriculum is enriched 2 by strong pre-professional programs and Located in nearby Hershey, historic D3hockey.com Players of the Week in-demand, nationally recognized majors that lie at the intersection of technology Hersheypark Arena is the former home and the liberal arts. of the AHL’s Hershey Bears and has UCHC3 Players of the Week LVC offers 40-plus undergraduate been home to LVC men’s ice hockey majors, plus self-designed majors and a since its inception in 1998-99. range of minors, concentrations, and pre- All-MAC4 Honorees professional options; graduate degree programs in athletic training, business administration, music education, physical AHCA5 All-American Scholars therapy, science in STEM education, and speech-language pathology. This summer, career guidance site MAC6 Players of the Week Zippia identified Lebanon Valley College as No. 1 among all U.S. colleges and HEAD COACH universities in its listing of “The Best UCHC13 All-Academic Selections Colleges in Each State for Getting a Job DON PARSONS 2018.” The placement rate for Lebanon Valley is 96.185%. Don Parsons enters his seventh The first ice hockey-specific arena MAC14 Academic Honor Roll Picks season at the helm of the Lebanon built in North America, the Arena Valley men’s ice hockey team in 2018- hosted the Bears from 1936 to 2002, 19. Parsons and LVC jumped back when they moved down the road to into the NCAA Division III in 2016-17 the new GIANT Center. One of the after spending five years competing most historic sporting arenas in North in the American Collegiate Hockey America, Hersheypark Arena was the Association’s Division I Conference. world’s largest monolithic structure when it was built, boasting a concrete In just his second season back in domed roof that allows every seat an the NCAA, Parsons led the Dutchmen unobstructed view of the ice. to a historic 2017-18 campaign. He guided LVC to a 10-4-2 UCHC mark and the third seed in the Conference Championship Tournament, the squad’s first NCAA-level conference playoff appearance since 2003-04. LVC won nine more conference 1 1 games than the season before, and All-American UCHC Tourney for his efforts, Parsons was named the inaugural UCHC Coach of the Year. Appearance Head Coach Don Parsons 717-867-6258 [email protected].