U.S. Under-18 Women’s national team features 10 with ties to Minnesota

Ten gamers with ties to Minnesota had been named to the 2022 U.S. Below-18 Ladies’s nationwide staff, which can compete on the IIHF championship from June 6-13 in Madison, Wis.

Minnesotans embody forwards Danielle Burgen (Lindstrom), Claire Enright (Lakeville), Madison Kaiser (Andover), Ava Lindsay (Minnetonka) and Josie St. Martin (Stillwater); defenseman Emma Peschel (Edina); and goalie Sedona Blaire (Eden Prairie).

Shattuck-St. Mary’s gamers Maggie Scannell (Wynantskill, N.Y.) and Sydney Morrow (Darien, Conn.), together with Gentry Academy’s Jenessa Gazdik (Somerset, Wis.) spherical out the Minnesota connections.

The staff started practising Monday on the Nationwide Sports activities Middle in Blaine.

“We’re enthusiastic about competing on the earth championship,” head coach Katie Lachapelle mentioned in an announcement. “We have used these further months to proceed making ready and constructing our pleasure as a staff and workers. Our roster is crammed with gifted gamers from throughout the nation and we’re able to take the ice in entrance of our residence crowd within the U.S.”