U.S. Feeds Off Record Crowd to Take 3-0 Rivalry Series Lead →

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The U.S. Women’s National Team left Seattle invigorated after sweeping the first three games in the 2022-23 Rivalry Series. It was the first time since 2019 the U.S. has won three consecutive outings against Canada.

Their 4-2 win on Sunday, Nov. 20, was played in front of 14,551 fans at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, a new record for attendance at a national women's hockey game played in the United States, beating the previous record of 13,320 set in Anaheim during the 2019-20 iteration of the Rivalry Series.

Those fans were treated to a goal in the opening minute of play, as Savannah Harmon (Downers Grove, Ill.) scored 40 seconds in. That goal set the tone for the night. 

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A New Winter Bring A New Rivalry Series For The U.S. And Canada Women’s Hockey Teams →

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The U.S. women’s hockey team is coming off a brutal and unprecedented stretch in which it played three major tournaments in 53 weeks — and won silver in each.

From late August 2021 to the first week in September 2022, the Americans played in two world championships and an Olympic Winter Games, falling to rivals Canada in the final of all three.

With much of the sports world now settling into a post-pandemic normal, the days of playing three global championships in such short succession appear to be in the rearview mirror. For women’s hockey, though, one key uncertainty remains.

The next world championship — the pinnacle of any non-Olympic season — will be held in 2023 in Canada, but specific dates have yet to be announced. Typically, the world championship is held in March or early April.

Without that date fixed on the calendar, teams are left to put together a schedule of games and camps without knowing when they’ll need to be at peak readiness.

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A New Approach, And Partnership With Norway, Bring New Possibilities For U.S. Ski Jumping

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The post-Olympic season is the best time to reset, reevaluate and make changes, said USA Nordic Sport ski jumping coach Anders Johnson, and now a groundbreaking partnership and new program philosophies could make this one of the most interesting U.S. ski jumping seasons in recent memory.

“We have a group of young, really motivated and talented athletes,” he said. “So the timing was perfect for us to really shift gears.”

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Women's Sled Hockey Takes Center Stage at Women's World Challenge →

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The inaugural Para Ice Hockey Women's World Challenge resulted in a title for Team USA, but the tournament will be remembered for so much more than the final results. 

“I want to emphasize how much of a huge part of history this is,” said U.S. forward and championship game-winning-goal scorer Katie Ladlie. 

An event more than a decade in the making, the tournament, which took place in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Aug 26-28, was the first ever women’s tournament sanctioned under World Para Ice Hockey. That distinction is an important step in gaining recognition, attention and funding for women’s Para ice hockey. 

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U.S. Women Settle For Silver in Hockey World Championship Battle →

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Canada’s women’s hockey team extended its gold medal-winning streak against the U.S. on Sunday.

The Canadians defended their 2021 world championship, defeating the U.S. 2-1 in the title game of the 2022 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Herning, Denmark.

Although the Americans overcame a two-goal deficit in their preliminary round game against Canada to win 5-2, they were unable to do it a second time after Canada’s Brianne Jenner scored twice in 84 seconds midway through the game.

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ESPY-Nominated Nick Mayhugh's Trip To The White House Was Also A Family Reunion

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Paralympian Nick Mayhugh posing for a photo with his cousin Kim Schaeffer isn’t too rare of an event. Their families are close, and Mayhugh considers Schaeffer the little sister he never had. 

 

What took this impromptu family moment over the top was the fact that it was taking place in the White House. 

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‘We Have To Keep Moving Forward:’ McKenzie Coan's Advocacy Goes Hand-In-Hand With Her Swimming →

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Growing up in Clarkesville, Georgia, McKenzie Coan has vivid memories of attending sporting events at Clemson University with her father, an alum of the school. There were many football and men’s basketball games, but she said she wasn’t really exposed to a lot of women’s NCAA sports as a kid. In fact, she didn’t even really know they existed, or that playing sports in college was an option for women. 
 
“I didn’t know what kind of opportunities existed for females who wanted to compete in college. I didn’t know what that looked like,” she said. 
 
It wasn’t until Coan got involved with the U.S. Para swimming team as a teenager that she began to understand the importance of women’s college sports. Now 25, Coan is a three-time Paralympian and has six medals — four of them gold — to her name. Yet her college experience remains foundational to her, both in and out of the pool.

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