United States national ringette team

United States
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Team USA
AssociationUSA Ringette[1]
Head coachKari Sadoway
Assistants
  • Phyllis Sadoway
  • Beth Vallis
  • Jason Sjostram
  • Devon Lowe
CaptainHilary Davidson
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First international
Senior:

United States 1990
(Gloucester, Canada; 1990)
Junior:

United States 2012
(London, Canada; 2012)
World Ringette Championships
AppearancesSenior Pool:
13 excluding 1998 Summit Series (first in 1990)
Best result
Senior Pool


President's Pool

Medal record
World Ringette Championships
Seniors
Senior
1990 Gloucester		 Team
Senior
1992 Helsinki		 Team
Senior
1994 Saint Paul		 Team
Bronze medal – third place Senior
1996 Stockholm		 Team
1998 Summit Series
Turku, Gothenburg, Osnabruck, Colmar		 No team
Bronze medal – third place Senior
2000 Espoo and Lahti		 Team
Bronze medal – third place Senior
2002 Edmonton		 Team
Bronze medal – third place Senior
2004 Stockholm		 Team
Senior
2007 Ottawa		 Team
Bronze medal – third place Senior
2010 Tampere		 Team
Bronze medal – third place President's Pool
2013 North Bay		 Team
Senior Pool
2016 Helsinki		 Team
Junior Pool
2016 Helsinki		 Team
Silver medal – second place President's Pool
2017 Helsinki		 Team
Silver medal – second place President's Pool
2019 Burnaby		 Team
2021 Helsinki Cancelled
Gold medal – first place President's Pool
2022 Espoo		 Team
President's Pool
2023 Calgary		 Team
World Junior Ringette Championships
Juniors
2009 Prague No team
2012 London Team
World Ringette Championships
Juniors
2013 North Bay No team
2016 Tampere No team
2017 Mississauga No team
2019 Burnaby No team
2021 Helsinki Cancelled
2022 Espoo No team
2023 Calgary

The United States national ringette team (more commonly known as "Team USA"), is the ringette team representing the United States internationally. America has only one national ringette team, Team USA Senior. It does not have an official national ringette team for the junior division. Team USA Senior is overseen by USA Ringette, a member of the International Ringette Federation, and competes at the World Ringette Championships. The first appearance in international ringette by the United States took place at the first World Ringette Championships in 1990.[2] Team Sweden is Team USA's arch-rival with both teams competing in the President's Pool against Team Czech. Team USA and related activity occurs predominantly within the American state of Michigan.

The majority of Team USA's roster and its coaches consist of individuals who were born in Canada; native-born American ringette players remain rare, with Finnish-born ringette players occasionally rounding out the roster.[citation needed] By 2022 the team had increased the number of American players on the national team. "Team USA is often composed of mostly Canadian athletes that have a US tie, such as citizenship. However, ultimately, we want to have players residing in the US make up the entire team, and we’ve made great progress towards this in the last few years, with almost half of the roster residing in the US recently. We cover quite a few different states now but there is still a lot of work to be done."[3]

  1. ^ "Team USA Ringette | WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL HOMEPAGE OF TEAM USA RINGETTE". teamusaringette.com. 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Results". Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Rising Stars: Meet Team USA Ringette". voyagemichigan.com. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.