Australian women’s U18 roster for 2022 World Championships

Ice Hockey Australia (IHA) have released the roster for the Australian women’s under-18 national team for the upcoming 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship Division II tournament. The competition will take place from 27 June to 5 July 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. Australia will compete in Group A against Mexico, the Netherlands and Turkey while Group B is made up of Great Britain, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Spain.

Ebony Brunt, Olivia Last, Molly Lukowiak, Courtney Mahoney, Phoebe Roberts and Nikki Sharp all return after competing at the 2020 U18 Women’s World Championships. Imogen MacMahon, who also competed in 2020, is currently on the reserves list.

Defence

#	Player	Club
6	Samantha Payne	Newcastle Northstars
10	Madison Sargeant	Canberra Pirates
11	Charlize Novatsis	Perth Inferno
13	Katrina Rapchuk	Southern Stars
17	Gabrielle Arps	Sydney Bears
19	Lily Roberts	Sydney Bears
23	Amelia Grigaliunas	Melbourne Ice

Forwards

#	Player	Club
2	Ebony Brunt (C)	Sydney Sirens
3	Amber Bedell	Adelaide Rush
4	Nikita Aguirrezabal	Sydney Sirens
5	Courtney Mahoney (A)	Brisbane Goannas
7	Phoebe Roberts (A)	Notre Dame Hounds AAA
8	Faith Kilgallon	Perth Inferno
12	Lucy York	Canberra Pirates
16	Molly Lukowiak	Perth Inferno
18	Natasha Dube	Gloucester-Cumberland
21	Elizabeth Marshall	Notre Dame Hounds AAA
24	Elana Holub	Adelaide Rush

Goaltenders

#	Player	Club
1	Olivia Last (C)	RoKi Naiset
25	Madison Smith	Adelaide Falcons

Reserves

Player	Club
Imogen MacMahon	Flyers IHC
Makayla Peers	Melbourne Ice
Nikki Sharp	A21 Academy U19

Updates

• Charlize Novatsis is called up to the main squad after initially being placed on reserve
• Nikki Sharp is dropped from the main squad

Further information

• IHA announcement
• Tournament page on IIHF.com
• Team Facebook page
• Team staff for the tournament