The 2013-14 college hockey season will see a new member join the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, Northern Michigan University.

The WCHA announced Wednesday that the Wildcats will be rejoining the league after a unanimous vote by league members. Northern Michigan is a former WCHA member, winning a national championship as part of the WCHA in 1991 and being in the conference from the 1984-85 season until they left for the Central Collegiate Hockey Association in 1996-97.

The admittance of NMU gives the WCHA six teams for the 2013-14 season. With Denver, Colorado College, North Dakota, Minnesota Duluth and Nebraska-Omaha leaving for the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference that year, the WCHA was looking to add more teams.