Women’s World Championships 2017 Preview: Switzerland

Lara Stalder at the Sochi Olympics in 2014As the 2017 Women’s World Championships approach, the question on everyone’s lips is, “who will play for the US?” Will it be the original roster? A scab team? This article...will not answer that question.

Instead, we’re going to begin a series talking about the European teams coming to this year’s World Championships, and we’re starting off with a country that just qualified for the Olympics last month—Switzerland. They were, as you can imagine, very excited about that.

But Annie, you might be saying, Switzerland won the bronze medal at Sochi. They had to qualify for Pyeongchang? Yes, yes they did, because international hockey is cruel. They did it in…