Like many other teenage drivers, Jincy Dunne is still learning the finer points of operating a vehicle.
“My parents were a little nervous about me driving in Boston, but I’m getting better,” the 16-year-old said.
Unlike many other teenagers, Dunne was recently followed by a film crew from Nickelodeon. That’s because she is vying for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Women’s Team that will compete in the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games in February.
Avalanche teammates Paul Stastny and Erik Johnson have been invited to next month’s U.S. Olympic team orientation camp, along with Colorado-raised defenseman Seth Jones and former University of Denver winger Beau Bennett of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Stastny and Johnson helped the Americans win the silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games, and were members of the bronze-medal winning U.S. squad at the World Championship last spring.
USA Hockey today announced the 20-player roster for the U.S. Under-17 Select Team that will compete in the 2013 Under-17 Five Nations Tournament Aug. 14-18 in Trnava, Slovakia.
Of the 25 players, 12 have previously represented the U.S. in the Olympic Winter Games, including three-time Olympian Julie Chu (Fairfield, Conn.). Members of the team range in age from 16-31, with Jincy Dunne (O’Fallon, Mo.) the youngest player and Chu the oldest. In total, the rostered players have represented the U.S. in 1,384 games in international competitions between 1999 and 2013.
Sixteen-year-old Jincy Dunne was one of 25 women named to the U.S. hockey team that will train for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Jincy Dunne of O’Fallon, Mo., was a nervous wreck on Monday morning as she waited to hear if she was going to make the 25-player U.S. women’s national hockey team.
“Before I found out, I thought I was going to throw up,” she confessed.
Travis Turnbull is a two-way forward who is a very good skater and always gives everything and is also versatile – both as a center, as well as a Winger. He has set in his first year in the DEL well on the larger ice surface and had a good season. We are pleased to welcome him with a good character and leader types in the Panther family.
The 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Hockey World Championship concluded over the weekend in Finland and Sweden, and the United States took home the Bronze medal following a 3-2 win over Finland on Sunday. The success of the U.S. at the tournament was due in large part to a number of USHL alumni that decorated the roster.
Stockholm: Team captain Paul Stastny scored two goals and assisted on two more as the United States hammered Russia 8-3 to dump the defending champions out of the ice hockey world championships in Helsinki on Thursday.
Avalanche center Paul Stastny continued his World Championship scoring spree Thursday, producing four points (two goals) in leading Team USA to an 8-3 quarterfinal-round victory over Russia and Avs goalie Semyon Varlamov in Helsinki.
