6 Frost Skaters On US Olympic Women’s Hockey Team

USA Hockey announced Friday that Minnesota Frost skaters Kendall Coyne Schofield (F), Lee Stecklein (D), Kelly Pannek (F), Grace Zumwinkle (F), Britta Curl-Salemme (F) and Taylor Heise (F) have been named to the United States Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team set to compete in the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games. The Frost’s six-skater contingent will be the largest in the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL).

Coyne Schofield will compete in her fourth Olympic Games having previously won gold in 2018 and silver in 2014 and 2022. 

Stecklein joins Coyne Schofield as a four-time Olympian (2014, 2018, 2022).Pannek will make her third Olympic appearance in February, having competed in 2018 and 2022 with Coyne Schofield and Stecklein. Zumwinkle will make her second Olympic appearance for Team USA, having previously earned silver in the 2022 Beijing Games.

Bismarck, ND native Curl-Salemme will be making her Olympic debut in Milano Cortina and joins former Team USA skaters Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux (Grand Forks) as a North Dakota representative to Team USA.

Heise will join Curl-Salemme as a debut Olympian.

Team USA will open Olympic competition in Milan Cortina on Thursday, Feb. 5 against Czechia in Group A at 9:40 a.m. CT.

All eight PWHL teams will be in action on January 28th as the league celebrates their national team players in the final game before the month-long Olympic break. The Frost will host Vancouver at 8:00 p.m. CT at Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul.