The countdown to the 2026 Olympic Winter Video games is inside six months with motion within the ladies’s hockey event slated to start Feb. 5 in Italy.
Right here’s a more in-depth have a look at PWHL gamers on the radar as Nationwide Groups converge for Summer time Camps going down world wide.
CANADA
Hockey Canada recently announced an inventory of 30 gamers who will probably be part of Canada’s Nationwide Ladies’s Group all through the 2025-26 season, with gamers collaborating in coaching blocks and attending occasions through the 12 months. A Nationwide Groups Orientation Camp, set for Aug. 26-28 in Calgary, AB, will carry collectively its ladies’s, males’s and para hockey groups for a three-day off-ice occasion. Ladies’s program alternatives have been made by normal supervisor Gina Kingsbury (TOR), head coach Troy Ryan (TOR) and Cherie Piper, senior supervisor of participant growth and scouting. Assistant coaches Kori Cheverie (MTL) and Caroline Ouellette (MTL) and goaltending marketing consultant Brad Kirkwood (TOR) additionally return to staff employees, together with Power and Conditioning Coach Vicki Bendus (MTL) and Tools Supervisor Alana Goulden (TOR). Canada is the defending Olympic champions and have gained three of the previous 5 IIHF Ladies’s World Championships.
PWHL Gamers
Goaltenders: Ann-Renée Desbiens (MTL), Emerance Maschmeyer (VAN), Kayle Osborne (NY)
Defenders: Erin Ambrose (MTL), Renata Quick (TOR), Nicole Gosling (MTL)*, Sophie Jaques (VAN), Jocelyne Larocque (OTT), Ella Shelton (TOR), Kati Tabin (MTL), Claire Thompson (VAN), Micah Zandee-Hart (NY)
Forwards: Emily Clark (OTT), Sarah Fillier (NY), Jenn Gardiner (VAN), Julia Gosling (SEA), Brianne Jenner (OTT), Emma Maltais (TOR), Hannah Miller (VAN), Sarah Nurse (VAN), Kristin O’Neill (NY), Marie-Philip Poulin (MTL), Danielle Serdachny (SEA), Natalie Spooner (TOR), Laura Stacey (MTL), Blayre Turnbull (TOR), Daryl Watts (TOR)
*2025 PWHL Draft Decide
UNITED STATES
The USA Hockey Women’s National Festival is underway, Aug. 3-9, in Lake Placid, NY, bringing collectively the highest American gamers from the U18 stage to the nationwide staff. The group contains 76 school {and professional} gamers with the pageant aiding within the analysis course of for the Olympic roster. Josh Sciba (NY) returns behind the bench as an assistant coach, with assist employees together with Athletic Coach Katie Homan (MIN) and Tools Managers Sis Paulsen (MIN) and Blake Kruse (MIN). The U.S. has gained two of the seven gold medals (1998, 2018) since ladies’s hockey made its Olympic debut and are the reigning World Champions.
PWHL Gamers
Goaltenders: Aerin Frankel (BOS), Gwyneth Philips (OTT)
Defenders: Cayla Barnes (SEA), Rory Guilday (OTT)*, Savannah Harmon (TOR), Megan Keller (BOS), Lee Stecklein (MIN), Anna Wilgren (SEA), Haley Winn (BOS)*
Forwards: Hannah Bilka (SEA), Alex Carpenter (SEA), Jesse Compher (TOR), Kendall Coyne Schofield (MIN), Britta Curl-Salemme (MIN), Taylor Heise (MIN), Gabbie Hughes (OTT), Hilary Knight (SEA), Casey O’Brien (NY)*, Kelly Pannek (MIN), Hayley Scamurra (MTL), Grace Zumwinkle (MIN)
*2025 PWHL Draft Decide
CZECHIA
Czechia’s Nationwide Group introduced collectively 46 gamers for a summer time camp held in Prague July 23-28 to start their choice course of forward of the Olympics. Led by head coach Carla MacLeod (OTT), the nation has by no means medaled on the Olympics however gained back-to-back bronze medals on the 2022 and 2023 Ladies’s Worlds adopted by two straight fourth-place finishes.
PWHL Gamers
Defenders: Daniela Pejšová (BOS), Aneta Tejralová (SEA)
Forwards: Klára Hymlárová (MIN), Natálie Mlýnková (MTL)*, Kristýna Kaltounková (NY)*, Kateřina Mrázová (OTT), Denisa Křížová (VAN), Tereza Vanišová (VAN)
*2025 PWHL Draft Decide
SWEDEN
Sweden’s Nationwide Group chosen 27 gamers for a camp held July 21-30 in Enköping and Bosön. This system gained Olympic bronze in 2002 and silver in 2006 and final medaled on the Ladies’s Worlds with bronze in 2007. New York defender Maja Nylén Persson, who completed the 2024-25 season on LTIR, didn’t compete at camp.
PWHL Gamers
Defenders: Anna Kjellbin (TOR)
Forwards: Sara Hjalmarsson (TOR)*, Lina Ljungblom (MTL)
*2025 PWHL Draft Decide
Six extra nations spherical out the 2026 Olympic discipline with France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan and Switzerland. France will compete within the Olympics for the primary time with ahead Chloé Aurard (BOS) anticipated to be a giant a part of their offense. Finland has gained back-to-back bronze medals on the Olympics and Ladies’s Worlds and is prone to characteristic veteran PWHL expertise like defender Ronja Savolainen (OTT) and ahead Susanna Tapani (BOS) plus draft picks Sanni Ahola (OTT) and Michelle Karvinen (VAN). Germany will return to the Olympics for the primary time since 2014 with a roster that could be led by goaltender Sandra Abstreiter (MTL), ahead Laura Kluge (BOS) and draft decide Nina Jobst-Smith (VAN). Switzerland gained Olympic bronze in 2014 with a profitable purpose by a then 15-year-old Alina Müller (BOS) who will certainly star in what can be her fourth Winter Video games. Alexandre Tremblay (MTL) is an assistant coach for Italy.
