UAH Hockey is back

The Chargers raised money and hit their goal

And has uah's decision.

Ll: in less than five days, supports of uah hockey raised more than 750 thousand dollars to bring back the program.

They met the goal, and uah president darren dawson honored his word, uah hockey is back for next season.

Pkg: former uah hockey players weren't going to stop till charger hockey was back.

"we're hockey players there's a little bit of fight in all of us," alumni rallied support, raising enough money for another season.

"just reading the comments on the go fund me page, really gave us the afirmation we left an impact on the community."

Former charger player and coach, howie mceachern, says the next step is establishing an advisory board to help the university with the team.

"huntsville is unique, it's the most diverse place i've ever lived, and we have a unique thing in uah hockey."

"this is an opportunity to get band back together and have a positive impact on the program."

Former uah goalie mike zeller says huntsville is better because of uah hockey.

But it's going to take a lot of support to get the chargers back to the glory days but hockey players never back down from a challenge.

"what we want is to build a program uah can be proud of, that huntsville can be proud of, and the entire state of alabama can rally behind and be proud of."

Ll: dawson says the chargers must develop a five year philantropic funding model and workout issues within their conference, to keep hockey beyond this upcoming season.

Reporting for waay 31 news im lynden blake.