Elias is pressing for Puerto Rico to achieve its objective of someday competing in women\u2019s and men\u2019s International Ice Hockey Federation world championships and, eventually, the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur growth over the last year has been substantial, not just in new players, but in talent,\u201d he said. \u201cThe task is on me to kind of build a culture where we can have a lot of different talent levels on the same team, all fighting for the same goal. In a camp like this, that\u2019s part of the messaging, the ability to come together under one flag.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
An IIHF associate member since Sept. 29, 2022<\/a>, Puerto Rico won a gold medal at 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey Federation 2025 Women\u2019s 3X3 Series<\/a> on Nov. 17 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where it defeated Argentina 7-6 in overtime to avenge a 7-3 loss to the Argentines in the gold medal game of the inaugural IIHF Women\u2019s 3×3 Series in Sao Paulo in November 2024.<\/p>\n The June 10-11 camp in Pennsylvania featured NCAA and college club hockey athletes, elite Under-19 and Under-16 players, along with youth players.<\/p>\n Julia Echavarria, a goalie with NCAA Division III William Smith College in Geneva, New York, said she was surprised by the number of players who attended the camp and their skill level.<\/p>\n \u201cIt shows that we have a place to showcase our skill,” Echavarria said, “we have a place to come together and share our culture and share our love for hockey and share other values, like teamwork, camaraderie, things like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I think it’s super important for Puerto Rican girls to have an avenue like this, because you know, you don’t exactly picture ice when you think of Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elias is pressing for Puerto Rico to achieve its objective of someday competing in women\u2019s and men\u2019s International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-782299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}