At the moment, the U.S. Beneath-21 males’s and girls’s nationwide hockey groups start their street to the subsequent spherical of Junior World Cup competitions with pool play in British Columbia in the course of the Junior Pan Am Championships.
The hockey groups are the primary to hit the sector this summer season, in what may very well be a formative summer season and fall for a number of youth nationwide groups in the USA. The ladies take the sector at 5 p.m. ET towards Uruguay, and the lads tackle Chile at 7:30 p.m. ET.
The U.S. ladies’s group, the reigning JPAC champions, must be the favourite to do it once more. It has a number of gamers who’ve beforehand gained the U.S. colours, each within the indoor and outside disciplines. The group additionally has a number of gamers who’re confirmed scorers, corresponding to Hope Rose, Olivia Bent-Cole, Maci Bradford, Ryleigh Heck and Josie Hollamon.
I feel Daniela Mendez-Trendler, who completely excelled at Owings Mills Garrison Forest (Md.) and the College of Virginia, is a participant to observe. Her inventive ending will serve her nicely at this degree.
On the lads’s aspect, regulate Corey Dykema, who had three sisters who performed at Division I Liberty College. He additionally suited up for a similar Saints Hockey Rocks membership group whereas being homeschooled. It must be fascinating to see how this group comes collectively over the course of the match.