Surrey, White Rock players among 235 eligible for 2026 PWHL Draft<\/p>\n
Published 1:30 pm Tuesday, May 12, 2026<\/p>\n
More than 230 players have declared for the 2026 Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League Draft.<\/p>\n
With 235 players eligible, this marks the largest talent pool of prospective players since the inaugural season, the PWHL announced Tuesday (May 12) \u2014 and Vancouver\u2019s own Goldeneyes hold the first overall draft pick.<\/a><\/p>\n White Rock\u2019s own Grace Elliott<\/a> is among those eligible, as well as South Surrey\u2019s four-time Canadian Olympian and three-time gold medalist Meghan Agosta<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other players from B.C. who are eligible include Maple Ridge\u2019s Emma Hall, Jade Iginla from Lake Country, Kelowna\u2019s Sophie McKinley and Tessa Krosec, Richmond\u2019s Annalise Wong and Tova Henderson, Summerland\u2019s Lyndsy Acheson, Brooke Disher from Fort St. John, Port Moody\u2019s Sophia Gaskell, Langley\u2019s Sara Swiderski and Jordyn Verbeek, Alexandra Lehmann from Cecil Lake and Abbotsford\u2019s Hailey MacLeod.<\/p>\n Laura Fortino, who won Olympic gold (2014) and silver (2018) with Canada before representing Italy in 2026, has also declared for the draft as well.<\/p>\n The group of 235 players features 129 forwards, 69 defenders, and 37 goaltenders, with more than 50 per cent of draft-eligible players from NCAA programs, the release noted. All eligible players officially declared for the draft by the May 8 deadline.<\/p>\n The draft itself \u2014 six rounds (48 picks) \u2014 will take place on Wednesday, June 17 at 5 p.m. ET at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey, White Rock players among 235 eligible for 2026 PWHL Draft Published 1:30 pm Tuesday, May 12, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-665377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}