Chasing again after the annual Hockey-L Useless Information Award, I
computed how far Division I colleges went to get this year's hockey
players. Alaska-Anchorage brings Seawolves an average of 1,794 miles
from their hometowns, eleven times as far as Canisius.
The D1 player who traveled farthest, 5,479 miles, is Colorado College's
Peter Sejna from Liptovski Mikulas, Slovakia. Anchorage could attract
five players from the Czech Republic because it's just a short hop over
the North Pole, less than 4,800 miles.
Ohio State couldn't find anyone within 150 miles.
Bob Griebel
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MILES FROM PLAYERS' HOMETOWNS TO COLLEGE ARENA:
Team Total Avg Min Max Roster
Alaska-Anchorage 50,258 1,794 4 4,772 28
Alaska-Fairbanks 37,122 1,427 1 2,249 26
Rensselaer 35,549 1,367 1 4,286 26
Quinnipiac 33,908 1,304 20 2,661 26
Colorado College 31,820 1,272 5 5,479 25
Iona 31,620 1,264 16 2,445 25
Alabama-Huntsville 33,295 1,233 1 4,930 27
Mass Lowell 33,133 1,227 12 3,736 27
Sacred Heart 31,932 1,182 2 3,635 27
Denver 27,147 1,085 3 5,204 25
Nebraska-Omaha 28,516 1,056 4 2,600 27
Boston Univ 27,132 1,004 5 4,104 27
Dartmouth 27,060 1,002 88 3,251 27
Air Force 27,723 990 49 2,422 28
Maine 27,126 968 8 3,840 28
Brown 28,503 950 33 3,264 30
Ohio State 23,610 874 151 3,096 27
Bowling Green 22,663 871 1 1,951 26
New Hampshire 22,185 821 32 2,598 27
Findlay 21,323 820 42 4,285 26
Cornell 22,133 819 45 3,902 27
Princeton 22,529 804 5 2,406 28
Bemidji State 20,180 776 70 4,196 26
Northern Michigan 22,931 764 0 4,052 30
Providence 18,934 728 4 2,680 26
Michigan Tech 22,558 727 1 4,281 31
Wayne State 19,189 685 4 4,952 28
Lake Superior State 17,469 671 2 2,001 26
Harvard 16,490 659 2 2,480 25
Boston College 16,950 651 4 3,924 26
Wisconsin 15,128 605 0 4,704 25
American Int'l 14,505 580 10 2,499 25
Michigan State 14,720 566 10 1,877 26
Union 16,339 563 13 2,393 29
St Cloud 17,407 561 46 4,770 31
Michigan 14,444 555 1 2,952 26
Western Michigan 14,834 549 61 1,846 27
Notre Dame 14,234 547 79 2,899 26
Niagara 14,725 545 3 4,027 27
Mercyhurst 13,543 541 1 2,996 25
Merrimack 13,287 531 2 4,084 25
St Lawrence 15,342 529 1 4,105 29
Northeastern 15,299 527 6 2,090 29
Ferris State 13,229 508 1 1,857 26
Yale 14,059 502 19 2,048 28
Connecticut 14,907 496 43 2,229 30
Miami 12,691 470 1 1,983 27
Colgate 11,271 450 122 2,077 25
Minn State-Mankato 11,566 444 55 1,256 26
North Dakota 10,331 430 1 2,274 24
Minnesota Duluth 11,550 427 1 2,445 27
Army 10,662 380 22 2,001 28
Massachusetts 10,787 359 13 4,060 30
Clarkson 9,545 353 34 3,763 27
Vermont 10,045 346 4 2,186 29
Holy Cross 9,961 332 15 3,336 30
Fairfield 9,682 322 7 1,408 30
Minnesota 8,146 290 2 4,744 28
Bentley 8,162 281 12 1,113 29
Canisius 4,354 161 2 1,240 27
FOOTNOTES:
- Rosters and hometowns are from the USCHO website.
- Distances are straight-line from published coordinates for hometown
locations to coordinates of University's rink.
- Two players from 150 Mile House, BC, may not find their homes because
those coordinates aren't published anywhere.
Some sites for geographic coordinates for place names:
United States:
"U.S. Gazetteer" ... http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
Files for downloading ...
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html
Canada:
"Welcome to Canadian geographical names" ...
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/
World:
"Names Files of Selected Countries" ...
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/cntry_files.html
"Geonames Query Home Page" ...
http://gnpswww.nima.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp
Arizona State University's links to "Place Names on the Internet":
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm
If anyone wants formulas for computing great circle distances from Point
1 to Point 2 using longitude and latitude, email me. I used them in
Excel and Access and would be glad to share.
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