St. Thomas community members showed up to Scooter’s for a watch party in support of women’s hockey coach Joel Johnson as he coached Team USA in the gold-medal game Wednesday against Team Canada in the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
The Tommies received national attention with their Division I debut last fall and now fans from around the world are cheering on two St. Thomas women’s hockey players and their coach during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. First-year goaltender Saskia Maurer and first-year defender Nicole Vallario are representing Switzerland while their coach, Joel Johnson, coaches reigning 2018 Winter Olympics champion Team USA.
USA Hockey announced Wednesday that Joel Johnson, the newly-hired women’s hockey coach for St. Thomas, will lead the U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China.
A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors’ request to add a third-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin, heavy snow in northeastern Minnesota left many without power and the International Olympic Committee is offering vaccines to athletes for the Olympic games. Ad/PR Representative Alaina Schoenfelder has today’s News in :90.
