ROAD TO MILAN
KELLY PANNEK
Olympic, World, NCAA & Walter Cup Champion, Kelly has been selected to the U.S. Olympic Team for her 3rd consecutive Winter Olympic Team in 2026. Kelly plays in the PWHL for the Minnesota Frost and is a native of St Louis Park, MN (Twin Cities). She serves as an Alternate Captain for the Frost. Of note, she was the first signed player in the history of the PWHL.
Kelly and one fellow teammate are the only women in the world to have won these 4 championships in hockey. In her career for the U.S. Women's National Team, she has played in 105 games. At the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship, Kelly was the only American on the Media All Star Team.
Kelly holds a B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Off the ice, Kelly is a part-time broadcaster with the regional sports network in the Twin Cities. In 2023, she received a local Emmy Award nomination for her collaboration on a series for Bally Sports North.
Olympic, World & NCAA Champion, Renata was selected to her 3rd consecutive Winter Olympic Team in 2026 and is an Alternate Captain for Canada. Renata plays in the PWHL for the Toronto Sceptres and is a native of Burlington, ON. She serves as an Alternate Captain for the Sceptres.
Renata was named the Best Defender in the PWHL, was a Billie Jean King PWHL Regular Season MVP Finalist and named to the First Team All- PWHL in 2025. In the Inaugural PWHL season, she was a member of the Second Team All-PWHL. At the 2023, 2024 & 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championships, she was named to the Media All Star Team and in 2024 won the Directorate Award as the Best Defender.
In her Canadian Women’s National Team career, she has played in over 100 games.
Renata is a graduate of Clarkson University where she and her husband Paul both played hockey at, today they live in the GTA.
RENATA FAST
Olympic, World & NCAA Champion, Emilywas selected to her 3rd consecutive Winter Olympic Team in 2026 for Canada. Emily plays in the PWHL for the Ottawa Charge and is a native of Saskatoon, SK. She serves as an Alternate Captain for the Charge.
Emily was the first signed player in Ottawa history, during the summer of 2025, she extended her original 3 year agreement another 2 seasons. Her player contract during the 2025-26 PWHL season is the highest single season agreement in PWHL history.
In her Canadian Women’s National Team career, she has played in over 100 games.
In the off-season, Emily splits time between the GTA and Saskatoon.
Emily is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
EMILY CLARK
ASHLEY CALDWELL
Olympic, World & World Cup Champion, Ashley is an American Olympic Hopeful for what would be her 5th consecutive Winter Olympic Team in 2026 in Freestyle Aerials. She lives today in Park City, UT and is a native of Ashburn, VA (Washington DC Metropolitan Area).
A first time mom with her husband Justin, she is attempting to become the first American in Freestyle Aerials skiing to come back and make an Olympic team after having a child (Harvey).
Ashley and her husband Justin teamed with Chris Lillis on the first Gold medal awarded in Olympic Games history in MIXED TEAM AERIALS at Beijing 2022.
Ashley holds degrees from Empire State University (SUNY) and two masters degrees from the University of Utah in Law Studies and Real Estate Development.
JUSTIN SCHOENEFELD
Olympic Champion. Justin is an American Olympic Hopeful for what would be his 2nd consecutive Winter Olympic Team in 2026 in Freestyle Aerials. He lives today with his wife Ashley in Park City, UT and is a native of the greater Cincinnati area in Kentucky.
Justin and his wife Ashley teamed with Chris Lillis on the first Gold medal awarded in Olympic Games history in MIXED TEAM AERIALS at Beijing 2022.
Justin and Ashley got married in Spring 2025 and welcomed their first child (Harvey) in July 2025.
Justin is a graduate of Utah Valley State University with a professional pilots degree for his future commercial aircraft career.
DANIELLE SERDACHNY
World Champion. Danielle is a Canadian Olympic Hopeful for what would be her 1st Winter Olympic Team in 2026. She was not selected and is an alternate should an injury occur to replace a member of the 23 player roster. Of note - the Canadian Olympic Women’s Roster is 23 players versus the 25-man Men’s Olympic Roster as mandated by the IOC & IIHF.
Danielle plays in the PWHL for the expansion franchise in Seattle (Seattle Torrent) and is a native of Edmonton, AB.
She was drafted by the Ottawa Charge, 2nd overall (First Round) in the 2024 PWHL Entry Draft and signed in PWHL Expansion Free Agency in Summer 2025.
At the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, NY (about 30 minutes from her alma mater), she scored the GOLDEN Game Winning Goal vs the United States in overtime.
In her Canadian Women’s National Team career she has played in over 30 games.
Danielle is a graduate of Colgate University.
SYDNEY PETERSON
Paralympic Champion, World Championship & World Cup Medalist. Sydney is an American Paralympic Hopeful for what would be her 2nd consecutive Winter Paralympic Team in 2026. Sydney and is a native of Lake Elmo, MN (Twin Cities). At the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games, she won Paralympic Gold, Silver and Bronze in Para Nordic Cross Country events.
Sydney is working on a dual Masters and PHD program at the University of Utah in Neuroscience in Salt Lake City and holds a B.S. from St Lawrence University where she was the first Paralympic athlete to ski on a NCAA team.
She trains for the ParaNordic team with members of the U.S. Biathlon and Nordic team in Park City. For Milan 2026 Winter Paralympic Games, Sydney is attempting to add Biathlon to her overall program.
LACEY EDEN
World & NCAA Champion. Lacey plays in the NCAA for the University of Wisconsin Badgers and is a native of Annapolis, MD. She serves as an Alternate Captain for Wisconsin.
Lacey was an Olympic hopeful in 2022 and was cut by Team USA just prior to Athlete Selection. Since then, she has played at every USWNT event from the Rivalry Series to the Women’s World Championships.
Lacey was not selected by Team USA and continues to play NCAA Hockey. She remains in the pool a an alternate should an injury occur to replace a member of the 23 player roster.
The U.S. Olympic Women’s Roster is 23 players versus the 25-man Men’s Olympic Roster as mandated by the IOC & IIHF.
In her U.S. Women’s National Team career, she has played 47 games.
She will be eligible for the PWHL 2026 Entry Draft following the 2025-26 NCAA season.
MILANO CORTINA 2026 OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC WINTER GAMES
The Winter Olympics begin on February 6 - 22 in Milano & Cortina, Italy with events beginning February 4th in a variety of Northern Italian locations.
The Winter Paralympics begins March 6-15, 2026.
Broadcast in North America is on the networks of NBC Universal in the United States and CBC in Canada for both the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Winter Olympic sports include:
Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Cross-Country Skiing, Curling, Figure Skating, Freestyle Skiing, Ice Hockey, Luge, Nordic Combined, Short Track Speed Skating, Skeleton, Ski Jumping, Ski Mountaineering, Snowboard and Speed Skating.
Winter Paralympic sports include:
Para Alpine Skiing, Para Biathlon, Para Cross-Country Skiing, Para Ice Hockey, Para Snowboard & Wheelchair Curling.
Olympic & World Champion, Laura will play for the Italian Winter Olympic Hockey Team in 2026. Laura won Olympic Gold in 2014 at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games and Silver in 2018 at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games for Canada.
She left playing for Canada in 2019 and changed her nationality to honor her parents (dad) and grandparents who left Italy to start a new life in North America for their family. Since the last season of the PWHPA, she moved her professional career to establish residency in Italy, she has played for the EV Bozen Eagles and AHC Lakers. This season she is with the Real Torino HC Femminile in the Italian Hockey League Women.
Back to her former Canadian Women’s National Team career, she has played 51 junior and senior WNT games.
Professionally she was the #1 pick in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League with the Brampton Thunder where she won Best Defender honors and was a nominee for MVP in 2015-16. In 2018, she won the Clarkson Cup which was the CWHL championship. Her final year in the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association (the precursor to the PWHL today), her squad - Team Harvey’s won the final PWHPA championship in 2023.
Laura is a graduate of Cornell University.