The Oklahoma Warriors are a Tier II junior

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team in the

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's South Division. The Warriors play their home games at Blazers Ice Centre in

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History

On October 15, 2019, the

(NAHL) announced that they had approved the membership application submitted by Robbie Hockey LLC, an entity owned and operated by Mary Anne Choi for a team in Wichita Falls, Texas, and that the team would start play in the 2020–21 season as a member of the South Division. On November 26, 2019, the name Warriors name was selected out of Warriors, Flames, Reign, and Falcons via a name-the-team contest. On April 14, 2020, the Warriors announced their inaugural head coach as Garrett Roth, a former assistant coach with the

Bismarck Bobcats The Bismarck Bobcats are a Tier II junior ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League's (NAHL) Central Division, and play out of Bismarck, North Dakota, in the V.F.W. Sports Center. Originally a part of the American Frontier Hockey Leag ...

and

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. On April 4, 2022, the Warriors and city of Wichita Falls mutually agreed to part ways at the end of the 2021-2022 NAHL season. The Warriors will relocate to the Blazers Ice Centre in

beginning in the 2022–2023 season.

Season-by-season records

References

warriors leaving Wichita Falls https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/local-sports/wichita-falls-warriors-relocating-sources-say/?

External links

Official websiteNAHL website
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