{"id":222848,"date":"2026-01-06T04:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222848\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:42:10","slug":"2026-u18-womens-worlds-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222848\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 U18 Women&#8217;s Worlds Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 U.S. Under-18 Women\u2019s National Team officially stared its 2026 IIHF Under-18 Women\u2019s World Championship journey on Monday, meeting in a balmy Halifax, Nova Scotia for the team\u2019s pre-camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team gathered in the lobby of its Dartmouth, Nova Scotia hotel in the early afternoon to take the short bus ride to the RBC Centre for its first practice of pre-camp. After settling into their home for the next four days, the squad hit the ice for a two-hour practice, getting their legs underneath them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coaching staff, which includes head coach Courtney Kennedy, assistant coaches Greg \u2018Boom\u2019 May, Shelly Picard and Chris Bailey, along with goaltending coach Mackenzie Bruch, put players through numerous drills, before hitting the special teams work for the last hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 U.S. Under-18 Women\u2019s National Team officially stared its 2026 IIHF Under-18 Women\u2019s World Championship journey on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-222848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}