{"id":391352,"date":"2026-07-09T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391352\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:30:09","slug":"pwhl-san-jose-signs-brooke-bryant-ex-jr-san-jose-shark-to-one-year-deal-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391352\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL San Jose signs Brooke Bryant, ex-Jr. San Jose Shark, to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 PWHL San Jose has added forward Brooke Bryant<\/a> to its roster, signing the Northern California native and former Jr. Shark to a one-year deal<\/a> announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

San Jose now has 13\u00a0players under contract<\/a> for the upcoming season, which begins late this year.<\/p>\n

Bryant, a Linden native, became the first Californian to play in the PWHL in 2022 when she debuted with Minnesota. She won back-to-back Walter Cup titles with the team before she played last season with the Seattle Torrent.<\/p>\n

Bryant, who has six points in 71 career PWHL games, played five seasons at Minnesota State University\u00a0and won gold with Team USA at the 2024 Inline Hockey World Championship.<\/p>\n

Bryant, 25, played with the San Jose Jr. Sharks 12-under team that won the Pacific District Championship\u00a0in 2012, and competed at that year\u2019s USA Hockey Tier II National Championships.<\/p>\n

Bryant, then 11, told the Stockton Record<\/a> that her goal was to play in the Olympics.\u00a0The Jr. Sharks 12-under coach at the time, Rick Burke, didn\u2019t doubt her, saying he was impressed when he first saw Bryant play at an all-girls hockey camp the previous summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember she had an injury problem at the time, but she\u2019s a tough kid and a hockey player. She skated through it,\u201d Burke told the Record. \u201cTalk about driven. This kid is extremely driven with natural athletic ability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 PWHL San Jose has added forward Brooke Bryant to its roster, signing the Northern California…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":["post-391352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}