The 2025 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup is just some weeks away, and yesterday, the USA girls’s head coach introduced who can be taking part in in it.
“Having competed within the Rohrmax Cup just some weeks in the past, it was an important alternative for us to guage all athletes to be thought of for the 2025 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup,” U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Indoor Workforce Head Coach Jun Kentwell mentioned in an announcement. “Greater than half our roster has indoor world cup expertise and I hope we are able to deliver our familiarity and continued scoring drive to the world stage.”
The Rohrmax Cup was held in Austria at the start of January. The United Eagles gained gold on the worldwide event. The seventh Indoor World Cup will probably be held Feb. 3 to 9 at Žatika Sport Centre in Pore, Croatia.
The 2025 squad options plenty of younger, returning expertise. Sarah Johnson will probably be taking part in her third World Cup, whereas Abby Burnett, Reese D’Ariano, Sierra Espeland, Annika Herbine, Sydney McGroarty, Opal Sparling, and Liz Tamburro all making their second look. D’Ariano, a sharpshooter on the ground, was named in 2023 the ladies’s younger participant of the event at age 15.
The No. 9 United Eagles are in Pool A with No. 2 Czechia, No. 8 Belgium and No. 26 Croatia. They open pool play on Monday, Feb. 3 at 3:40 p.m. ET towards No. 2 Czechia. Then on Tuesday, Feb. 4 they face hosts No. 26 Croatia at 1:40 p.m. ET. Pool play concludes on Wednesday, Feb. 5 towards No. 8 Belgium at 11:00 a.m. ET.
Pool B options No. 3 Austria, No. 7 South Africa No. 10 Poland and No. 18 Thailand. Pool C consists of No. 5 Australia, No. 6 Germany, No. 12 Namibia and No. 15 New Zealand.
The next athletes have been chosen to the official roster:
Charly Bruder, Malvern, Pa.
Abby Burnett, Zionsville, Pa.
Reese D’Ariano, West Chester, Pa.
Sierra Espeland, Midlothian, Va.
Sofia Ferri, Phoenixville, Pa.
Annika Herbine, Macungie, Pa.
Sarah Johnson, Lincoln College, Pa.
Sydney Mandato, Telford, Pa.
Erin Matson, Chadds Ford, Pa.
Sabrina McGroarty, Mickleton, N.J.
Opal Sparling, Chester Springs, Pa.
Liz Tamburro, Phoenixville, Pa.
*Non-traveling reserve: Abigail Gerdeman, Chester Springs, Pa.
The teaching workers contains Kentwell, assistant Allyson Fuller, workforce supervisor Richard Kentwell, physiotherapist Roxanne Smith, and videographer Joep van de Coelen.
Photograph: Reese D’Ariano on the 2025 RohrMax Indoor Cup, USA Discipline Hockey
