UConn women’s hockey coach Chris MacKenzie used to say he wouldn’t believe that there would be a new on-campus hockey arena in Storrs until he saw shovels in the ground and went to a ceremony for it.
On Saturday, MacKenzie got his wish when UConn officially broke ground on its new, on-campus hockey arena during a ceremony at I-Lot, the site of the future rink.
“Are we really here right now?” he said with a gesture of disbelief. “I’ve been here for eight years and we’ve been talking about building a rink forever. I see the shovels and now I believe it.