She succeeds longtime commissioner Josh Fenton, who assumed the same post at the Summit League in April 2022.
Weems has been the head athletics official at SCSU for nearly a decade after arriving from Drake University in 2012.
The NCHC was formed in 2013 following major conference realignment, poaching several former WCHA teams.
Widely regarded as college hockey’s premier conference, three of its member schools have won five of the last six NCAA national championships (North Dakota in 2016, Denver in 2017 and 2022, and Minnesota-Duluth in 2018 and 2019).
