Episode 97: Brianna Decker Ice Hockey Olympian

February 11, 2021
Ice Hockey super star Brianna Decker has been playing hockey at the International level for almost twenty years. In the episode she was generous in her stories about playing ice hockey with her brothers as a kid, what happens at a USA Hockey training camp, competing at the Olympics and what she learned from her first games and then applied to her second, plus what she’s seeing in young hockey players in her coaching duties for the U.S. U18 National Team.

Brianna represented USA in two Olympic Games where she won gold in 2018 and silver in 2014, played in seven World Championships (winning gold in six of those) and ten Four Nations Cups and one Twelve Nations Invitational Tournament Series. She is also a two-time winner of the Bob Allen Women’s Player of the Year Award and two-time CWHL Clarkson Cup winner. In 2016 Brianna helped the Boston Pride win the Isobel Cup, was two-time NWHL Most Valuable Player, 2012 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, and played on the University of Wisconsin Division 1 National Championship team in 2011.

With all of that she is still working to help the next generation of players. Since 2018, Brianna has been an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team and created the Brianna Decker Endowment for Girls Hockey.

Brianna is currently playing with the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) Calgary Region team.

Brianna on Instagram and Twitter
Erica L. Ayala Women’s Hockey Specialist
USA v Canada - Women's Ice Hockey Gold Medal Match - PyeongChang 2018
Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association (PWHPA)
Women’s Hockey Life Podcast from October 2020

Book Recommendations:
Two of Brianna’s favorites are The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon and Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins.
Find both books and all our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at hearhersports.com/books.
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