Stallions The Stallions hockey team was founded by Paul Kettleson, Chris Winchester, and Sharon (Cichy) Winchester on the 6th floor of Hadley Hall, in December of 2014. The idea was generated after the intramural hockey season had completed and it was clear that there were players at Western that wanted and had more to give to the sport of Hockey. After the idea was formalized, the constitution was drawn up, the application for the club was submitted to the Student Center, better known as the birdcage. During this phase in the founding process is when Paul Ingaccio, Todd Hufford, and Matt Cratty, joined and helped the Stallions reach its goal of WMU Club status. Both Paul and Todd played key roles in helping get the club approved and then supported building the foundation of the club to last many years into the future. Matt Cratty and his team helped the club start identifying and recruiting potential players to tryout out. While the player identification process was going on, Chris was contacting the ACHA and working on getting WMU into the national league to complete in the National Division 2. Now that the team existed, the next phase was the development of the in game experience both from a ticketing perspective as well as a merchandising perspective. Sharon Winchester, Todd Hufford, Maggie Hufford, and Matt Cratty ran the game day experience for WMU students, friends, and family at Lawson Arena for when the season was ready for kick off. By the summer on 1995, the WMU Stallions Hockey club was founded, inserted into the Division 2 ACHA division, identified over 150 players to tryout (85 actually attended), hired their first Coaches (Bob Krosky and Dave Burke), and were scheduled to play a 24 game season. …then March 1996 happened

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