{"id":1531,"date":"2018-01-12T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2018-01-12T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:54:59","slug":"butler-club-hockey-founder-talks-about-bringing-program-back-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/2018\/01\/12\/butler-club-hockey-founder-talks-about-bringing-program-back-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Club Hockey founder talks about bringing program back to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article crisp-theme sections-article-layout\" data-article-type=\"sections-article\">\n<div class=\"section title-section title-center hidden\" data-section-behavior=\"crisp-title\" data-layer=\"1\" data-layer-name=\"over\" data-scroll-after-animation=\"false\">\n<div class=\"section-view\">\n<div class=\"section-background\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigation-hint down\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section single-column-section  large-content-spacing-top large-content-spacing-bottom visible\" data-section-behavior=\"crisp-single-column\" data-layer=\"0\" data-layer-name=\"over\">\n<div class=\"section-view\">\n<div class=\"section-content\">\n<div class=\"section-content-view\">\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<p class=\" \">When Noah Brayton began his freshman year at Butler University in the fall of 2014, he immediately knew there was something missing, something that had been a part of his life as long as he could remember.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">Since the age of three, Brayton had been playing ice hockey, a sport that had been a major part of his family for generations. While he thought attending a school with no hockey program would be alright, it was not. He felt somewhat lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">\u201cI really felt kind of uneasy, not playing hockey anymore,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d played it my whole life. Just the thought of not playing anymore was kind of tough for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-button-wrapper link-left\">\n<div class=\"embedded-link-wrapper widescreen-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"link-button \" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/x7YEW332lyo?enablejsapi=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\" \">If Brayton had been at Butler a decade earlier, he wouldn\u2019t have had this problem. Back then, Butler had a successful hockey program. The team even captured the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division III national championship in 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">During the mid-2000s, though, the team fell apart and eventually was placed on probation from the university, largely due to financial problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">More than a decade later, with no program on campus for Brayton, he decided to take the matter into his own hands and re-establish a team.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">Due to the financial difficulties of the previous team, the PuLSE office required Brayton and other founding members to put together a business plan to get established as an official campus club. The group then had to become established as a club sport before competition could begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">After a lengthy process, the Butler Club Hockey team began official play again in September of 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">\u201c[Founding a team] takes a lot of commitment for sure,\u201d Brayton said. \u201cAt times you think that you\u2019d want to give up, or maybe it\u2019s not worth it in the long run, but just making sure that you push through and keeping that motivation through the whole way is definitely important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">The new program is now in its third year as a Butler club sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">\u201cIn five years, or a couple more years, I would expect to see this team be a little bit more [than a club sport],\u201d Brayton said. \u201cPossibly move up a division, from Division III to Division II. I think the growth rate that we\u2019re on right now is pretty much exponential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">Brayton, along with another founding member, Eric Gentry, both see the future of the program growing beyond the current club team.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">\u201cI could definitely see it becoming a division one team eventually,\u201d Gentry said. \u201cObviously that takes time and, the more important thing is money out of that. But hopefully as for right now the club team will keep growing, and keep getting better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-button-wrapper link-left\">\n<div class=\"embedded-link-wrapper widescreen-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"link-button \" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/qZbEsUMIo3w?enablejsapi=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\" \">The team has already matched last season\u2019s win total with 12 games remaining, and Gentry believes it will only continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">Brayton, a senior, will soon head to dental school and leave the program he helped regenerate.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">\u201cI don\u2019t want to say that this is my baby, because it\u2019s all of ours,\u201d Brayton said. \u201cJust knowing how much work and dedication went into creating this, I don\u2019t want to see it fall flat when I\u2019m gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-button-wrapper link-left\">\n<div class=\"embedded-link-wrapper widescreen-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"link-button \" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/4j0HZHFIbp0?enablejsapi=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\" text-center\"><b>By Savannah Boettcher and Chris Brown<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section author-section  bottom-shadow hidden\" data-section-behavior=\"crisp-author\" data-layer-name=\"over\">\n<div class=\"section-view\">\n<div class=\"section-content\">\n<div class=\"section-content-view\">\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"author-appreciation-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section bumper-section un-branded-bumper-section hidden\" data-layer-name=\"under\" data-layer=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"section-view\">\n<div class=\"footer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-scrollbar vertical visible\">\n<div class=\"wp-scrollbar-track\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Noah Brayton began his freshman year at Butler University in the fall of 2014, he immediately knew there was something missing, something that had been a part of his life as long as he could remember. 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