Knight and Coyne headline U.S. women’s hockey roster for 2022 Worlds

United states of america Hockey on Sunday announced the 23-participant roster for the 2022 IIHF Women’s Planet Championship afterwards this month. The workforce is headlined by 4-time Olympic medalist Hilary Knight, who will make her 12th look at a women’s entire world championship (a United states of america Hockey report), and three-time Olympic medalist Kendall Coyne Schofield, who will contend at her ninth Worlds.

Knight, 33, has been a member of just about every U.S. world championship roster because 2008. The former Wisconsin Badger owns 8 earth titles and three entire world silver medals.

The U.S. roster includes 18 players who gained silver at the 2022 Beijing Wintertime Olympics previously this 12 months. (A entire roster is included below.) Because Beijing, a new head coach — John Wroblewski — was introduced in.

3 gamers will be building their United states of america Hockey senior countrywide staff debut: Hannah Bilka, Taylor Heise, and Rory Guilday. Two players — Lacey Eden and Aerin Frankel — will be generating their Usa Hockey return. Both of those Eden (Wisconsin) and Frankel (Northeastern) competed at very last summer’s World Championship, but weren’t chosen for the Olympic group. Eden was cut in the direct up to Beijing, when Frankel, the 2021 Patty Kazmaier Award winner, was not involved in the residency program.

Abbey Murphy, a member of the 2022 U.S. Olympic team, was not named to the Worlds roster but was incorporated on the 2022 U.S. Collegiate decide on team.

All 23 players are either nonetheless in school, customers of the PWHPA, or actively playing abroad. Six customers of the PHF were invited to the United states Hockey Festival, but none produced the environment championship roster.

The 2022 IIHF Women’s Entire world Championship will be held in Denmark from August 26 by means of September 4, 2022. It marks the initially time that a women’s globe championship will be held in an Olympic yr. The U.S. will be hunting for a little bit of revenge and to get started a new streak following shedding to Canada at the two the 2022 Wintertime Olympics and 2021 Earth Championship. Team United states entered previous August’s globe championship possessing gained 5 straight entire world titles.

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U.S. Roster for the 2022 IIHF Women’s Globe Championship

Goalies: 

• Aerin Frankel

• Nicole Hensley

• Maddie Rooney

Defenders: 

• Cayla Barnes

• Jincy Dunne

• Rory Guilday

• Savannah Harmon

• Caroline Harvey

• Megan Keller

• Lee Stecklein

Forwards: 

• Hannah Bilka

• Hannah Brandt

• Alex Carpenter

• Jesse Compher

• Kendall Coyne Schofield

• Lacey Eden

• Taylor Heise

• Amanda Kessel

• Hilary Knight

• Kelly Pannek

• Abby Roque

• Hayley Scamurra

• Grace Zumwinkle

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