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Even for Olympic Gold-Winning Team USA, the Women's Hockey Pipeline Is Fractured
I did not know that there was such a thing as women's professional hockey.
TWSJ. is letting me read the entire article.
Even for Olympic Gold-Winning Team USA, the Women’s Hockey Pipeline Is Fractured
But greater scrutiny of U.S. girls and women’s hockey is spurring change at the college level, and the pro game is getting $25 million in cash.
By Laine Higgins and Rachel Bachman
https://twitter.com/lainehiggins17
laine.higgins@wsj.com
https://twitter.com/Bachscore
Rachel.Bachman@wsj.com
Feb. 1, 2022 8:00 am ET
Four years ago, the U.S. women’s hockey team won its first Olympic gold medal since 1998 in the most dramatic fashion possible, beating archrival Canada in an overtime shootout. With the game concluding in the wee hours of the morning stateside, Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne-Schofield and company were literally overnight sensations.
Yet even as Team USA’s stars were feted like the queens of hockey they had become—in parades, ad campaigns and on the talk-show circuit—the pipeline that feeds new players to the U.S. national team displayed cracks at every level.
Bodies that are supposed to develop and promote the sport—such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the International Ice Hockey Federation—were neglecting women’s hockey even as participation rose. Professional women’s hockey leagues, still in their infancy, were starved for funding and unstable.
Today, things are changing. A critical report last year detailing stark inequities in women’s college hockey quantified long-standing problems and spurred corrective action. A cash infusion into the top professional league will help stabilize its operations for the next three years and increase player salaries.
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Write to Laine Higgins at laine.higgins@wsj.com and Rachel Bachman at Rachel.Bachman@wsj.com
Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Appeared in the February 3, 2022, print edition as 'Women’s Hockey Pipeline Is Fractured.'
But greater scrutiny of U.S. girls and women’s hockey is spurring change at the college level, and the pro game is getting $25 million in cash.
By Laine Higgins and Rachel Bachman
https://twitter.com/lainehiggins17
laine.higgins@wsj.com
https://twitter.com/Bachscore
Rachel.Bachman@wsj.com
Feb. 1, 2022 8:00 am ET
Four years ago, the U.S. women’s hockey team won its first Olympic gold medal since 1998 in the most dramatic fashion possible, beating archrival Canada in an overtime shootout. With the game concluding in the wee hours of the morning stateside, Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne-Schofield and company were literally overnight sensations.
Yet even as Team USA’s stars were feted like the queens of hockey they had become—in parades, ad campaigns and on the talk-show circuit—the pipeline that feeds new players to the U.S. national team displayed cracks at every level.
Bodies that are supposed to develop and promote the sport—such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the International Ice Hockey Federation—were neglecting women’s hockey even as participation rose. Professional women’s hockey leagues, still in their infancy, were starved for funding and unstable.
Today, things are changing. A critical report last year detailing stark inequities in women’s college hockey quantified long-standing problems and spurred corrective action. A cash infusion into the top professional league will help stabilize its operations for the next three years and increase player salaries.
{snip}
Write to Laine Higgins at laine.higgins@wsj.com and Rachel Bachman at Rachel.Bachman@wsj.com
Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Appeared in the February 3, 2022, print edition as 'Women’s Hockey Pipeline Is Fractured.'