2024-25 Junior, Development and Senior U.S. Women’s National Indoor Teams Finalized Following Tryout
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Following the final in-person tryout on December 15, U.S. Women’s National Indoor Team Head Coach Jun Kentwell and staff have added 15 athletes across the Junior, Development and Senior U.S. Women’s National Indoor Teams.
2024-25 Junior U.S. Women’s National Indoor Team
Anna Arnold (Bethesda, Md.), Cordelia Blanc (New Canaan, Conn.), Hannah Brooks (Upperco, Md.), Genevieve Huston (Whitney Point, N.Y.), Anne Kennedy (West Chester, Pa.), Madeline Rousseau (Anchorage, Ky.), Stevie Schultz (Westminster, Md.), Lindsey Sloan (Eastwood, Ky.)
Anna Arnold (Bethesda, Md.) was renamed to the junior squad for the second year in a row. The remaining eight athletes are new to the indoor program.
2024-25 U.S. Women’s National Development Indoor Team
Ellis Cannon (Virginia Beach, Va.), Carli Ciocco (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Alexandra Curtis (Richmond, Va.), Maia Dechiario (Berwyn, Pa.), Kendall Longenberger (Dillsburg, Pa.), Maeve McGinley (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Jack Shaw (Exton, Pa.), Chase Strohm (Hummelstown, Pa.)
A majority of those named to the Development squad are new to the indoor system. Three athletes transitioned from the junior team, they are Kendall Longenberger (Dillsburg, Pa.), Maeve McGinley (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), and Jack Shaw (Exton, Pa.).
2024-25 U.S. Women’s National Indoor Team
Rylee Dennis (Chester Springs, Pa.), Sierra Espeland (Midlothian, Va.)
Returning from injury after previously being named to the junior team in June of 2023, Rylee Dennis (Chester Springs, Pa.) will be moved up to the senior squad. Sierra Espeland (Midlothian, Va.) has four senior caps to her name and has been integrated within the program since 2017. She was on the roster for the 2017 Indoor Pan American Cup in Georgetown, Guyana and selected for the 2018 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup in Berlin, Germany. She then repeated as being named to the 2021 Indoor Pan American Cup in Spring City, Pa.
The senior squad will participate in the RohrMax Cup from January 2 to 5 in Vienna, Austria before the 2025 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup (IHWC) to be held February 3 to 9 in Poreč, Croatia. The junior and development teams will play in the annual CanAm Indoor Series scheduled to take place at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada from March 15 to 16.