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Junior hockey teammates from Southland build collegiate program at Purdue Northwest | Homer-glen

Jeff Vorva
Times correspondent

After leaving Illinois State University for different reasons, Homer Glen’s Jeremy Lochow and Orland Park’s Dan Oliszewicz were seeking new homes for their college careers.

Both played hockey for the Midwest Blackbirds junior team in Dyer, but Oliszewicz was thinking his hockey career was finished as far as college competition went.

Lochow, however, locked in with the Purdue University Northwest program, which was ready to embark on its inaugural season in 2019. Lochow coaxed Oliszewicz to come play for the Pride.

“I said ‘Dan, you should come out here, it would be awesome to keep playing with you,’ ” Lochow said. “The next thing you know, we were both here.”

“I was ready to quit hockey,” Oliszewicz said. “I was ready to move to Florida and work on music production and try to go all-in on that. But Jeremy said I could have this opportunity to play hockey for a couple more years if I wanted.”

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