History
It started its first season in 1994 as a Junior B league with six teams. The WSHL currently has 16 teams in three divisions, Western Division, Mountain Division, and Mid-West Division, four new teams will join the WSHL for the 2012/2013 season, the Seattle Totems and Southern Oregon Spartans will move from the Northern Pacific Hockey League to the WSHL, the league will add 5 expansion teams for the 2012/2013 season with 2 teams moving into the WSHL, the league will have 22 teams in 2012/2013. In 2006, it was promoted to the Junior A classification.
In August 2011, the WSHL became the first league to jump from USA Hockey to the Amateur Athletic Union.
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