The women's national team training camp has started

On the 13th of September, the women's Russian national team began their preparation for upcoming friendly matches against teams from the NWHL. They will take place in the USA between the 24th and 30th of September.

27 players are training:

Goalkeepers: Maria Sorokina, Nadezhda Morozova, Valeria Tarakanova.

Defenders: Angelina Goncharenko, Nina Pirogova, Ekaterina Lobova, Anna Shibanova, Maria Batalova, Liana Ganeeva, Maria Pechnikova, Ekaterina Nikolaeva.

Forwards: Alevtina Shtaryova, Elena Dergachyova, Anna Shokhina, Olga Sosina, Galina Skiba, Lyudmila Belyakova, Fanuza Kadirova, Elena Podkamennaya, Ekaterina Smolentseva, Alexandra Vafina, Iya Gavrilova, Ekaterina Likhachyova, Elina Mitrofanova, Ekaterina Lebedeva, Lidiya Malyavko, Ekaterina Solovyova.

Russian national team head coach Alexei Chistyakov:

- The Russian women's ice hockey league has only just started. The girls have played six games in nine days, the last of which was held yesterday. Also, some of flown in from Krasnoyarsk and Ufa. As a result, we decided to leave ice training today and focus on other aspects.

The training camp will only last for a week. On the 16th of September, we will play a friendly match, and then we wil decide who will fly to the USA. Five games against NWHL clubs will be held. The opponents are tough, and almost the whole of the US national side plays for Boston. It won't be easy, but we are preparing for it. There a lot of Russian players who want to show what they are capable of.

Russian Ice Hockey Federation