page_title: Lindenwood Lions
section_title: Men's ice hockey
hierarchical_section_title: Lindenwood Lions / Student life sports / Men's ice hockey
caption_attribution_description: English: Lindenwood Univ. vs Univ. of Illinois Ice Hockey
context_page_description: The Lindenwood Lions and Lady Lions are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Lindenwood University, located in St. Charles, Missouri. The school is primarily a member of the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference, although women's ice hockey and gymnastics and men's volleyball compete in NCAA Division I. The Lions joined the NCAA and the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in the summer of 2013, after completing the transition process from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Heart of America Athletic Conference. On October 4, 2018, Lindenwood announced it would be leaving the MIAA for the Great Lakes Valley Conference effective July 1, 2019.
context_section_description: Lindenwood University added ice hockey in 2003. The men's team currently competes in the varsity club ACHA Division I, and a JV men's team competes at the ACHA Division II level in the Mid-American Collegiate Hockey Association. The women's team played at ACHA Division I level through 2010–11, after which it moved to NCAA Division I, first as in independent for 2011–12 and then in College Hockey America starting with the 2012–13 season. The Lion's men's and Lady Lions women's teams won back-to-back ACHA DI National Champions for 2009 and 2010 and LU men's hockey is the 2011 runner-up. The team is a member of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League and has had recent success on the ice, as national runner-up to the University of Illinois in 2008 and winning their first national championship in 2009 in a rematch of the 2009 game, this time defeating Illinois. 2009 marked the first year a school has won national championships at men's and women's hockey in the same season.
  The Lions continued in the 2009–10 season and recorded a regular season record of 42–3–0–2 (42 wins, 3 losses, and 2 shootout losses). The Lion's came in second in the CSCHL standings to Ohio University but won the league playoff championship. LU advanced to the ACHA DI National Tournament ranked #1 in the nation and repeated as National Champions, defeating Iowa State 2–0 in the championship game.
  Following the 2009–2010 season, Lindenwood's first and only men's ice hockey coach, Derek Schaub, announced he would step down as head coach of the team. Under Schaub, who stepped down to coach the LU men's lacrosse team, the Lions amassed a record of 217–57–3. Schaub was replaced by assistant coach and former NHL player with the St. Louis Blues, Rick Zombo. Under Zombo the Lions won their third consecutive CSCHL Regular Season Championship and finished the regular season with a 29–3–0 record and qualified for the 2011 national championship tournament. The team finished the 2010–11 season with an overall record of 32–4–0 and 13–1–0 in the CSCHL. The season concluded on March 9, 2011 when the Lions were defeated by Davenport University 2–3 in overtime of the championship game.
  For the 2011–12 season, the Lions added 11 freshmen and three transfers to the roster. After starting the season with a record of 11–4–0, the team recorded a 16-game win streak to end the regular season with a record of 27–4. In January 2012, the university announced that former NHL and international head coach, Ted Sator, was hired as an assistant coach. LU finished the regular season going undefeated in CSCHL conference play for the first time in the history of the program. The team also received an autobid with the CSCHL title to the 2012 ACHA DI National Tournament. The Lions defeated Central Oklahoma 5–2 in the second round, after the team was seeded second and received a first round bye; followed by the Minot State 7–4 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinal round, the Lions lost 3–6 to Delaware. The loss to the Blue Hens ended LU's four season streak of reaching the championship game. The team finished the season with an overall record of 31–5.
caption: Lindenwood Hockey Game vs. Illinois
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