In a rematch of the 2018 gold medal recreation, the U.S. Olympic women's ice hockey crew squares off with Canada, in a competition scheduled for Thursday in Beijing and airing at 10:10 p.m. CT Wednesday. The recreation will air stay on NBC.
Northbrook local Jesse Compher, a graduate of Glenbrook North, is one in every of 5 Chicagoland citizens gambling for the U.S. crew.
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The U.S. crew has most effective one loss at some point of those Olympics, a 4-2 defeat to Canada on Feb. 7 withinside the initial round.
Compher, a first-time Olympian, is joined in Beijing via way of means of neighborhood hockey gamers Kendall Coyne Schofield, of Palos Heights, Savannah Harmon, of Downers Grove, Abbey Murphy, of Evergreen Park and Megan Bozek, of Buffalo Grove. Harmon and Murphy also are first-time Olympians.
Compher, who performs forward, is indexed at 5-foot-eight inches, a hundred and fifty kilos at the authentic crew roster. She performed collegiate hockey at Boston University. She represented the USA on the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2019 and 2021.