Eight Buckeyes Win Medals at 2026 Winter Olympics
2/19/2026 4:52:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women's hockey program was represented across the podium in Thursday's Olympic medal ceremony at Milano Santaguilia Ice Hockey Arena with a combined eight current and former Buckeyes winning a medal at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.
Junior forward Joy Dunne and Ohio State alumnae Cayla Barnes ('24) and Hannah Bilka ('24) won gold with Team USA in a 2-1 overtime win over Canada, with Jenn Gardiner ('24), Sophie Jaques ('23), Emma Maltais ('23) and Natalie Spooner ('12) taking silver.
Winning bronze for the Buckeyes was Switzerland's Andrea Braendli ('22) with the 2-1 overtime win over Sweden.
Spooner now has four Olympic medals, including two silvers. Barnes earned her third Olympic medal, and second gold, while Emma Maltais adds a second Olympic medal to her collection. Bilka and Dunne earned the gold in their Olympic debuts while Gardiner and Jaques also picked up a medal in their first Olympics. Braendli's bronze is her first Olympic medal in three appearances.
Gold Medal – United States 2, Canada 1 OT
Junior forward Joy Dunne and Ohio State alumnae Cayla Barnes ('24) and Hannah Bilka ('24) won gold with Team USA in a 2-1 overtime win over Canada, with Jenn Gardiner ('24), Sophie Jaques ('23), Emma Maltais ('23) and Natalie Spooner ('12) taking silver.
Winning bronze for the Buckeyes was Switzerland's Andrea Braendli ('22) with the 2-1 overtime win over Sweden.
Spooner now has four Olympic medals, including two silvers. Barnes earned her third Olympic medal, and second gold, while Emma Maltais adds a second Olympic medal to her collection. Bilka and Dunne earned the gold in their Olympic debuts while Gardiner and Jaques also picked up a medal in their first Olympics. Braendli's bronze is her first Olympic medal in three appearances.
Gold Medal – United States 2, Canada 1 OT
- In the second overtime game of the day, the United States scored four minutes into overtime for the 2-1 win.
- Dunne earned the start in the gold medal game, playing on the top line for the United States.
- Canada scored first shorthanded at the beginning of the second period and the United States tied the game with under three minutes to play in regulation to send the game to overtime.
- Nearly 70 minutes were needed to decide the bronze medal game between Switzerland and Sweden.
- Mira Jungåker scored the first goal of the medal games, lighting the lamp at 11:40 in the second period. Hilda Svensson earned the first assist on the goal.
- The game went to overtime tied at 1-1 with Switzerland scoring the game-winning goal with less than a minute to play in the extra period.
- Braendli ('22) finished the game with 32 saves.
- Bilka tied for the most goals in tournament with four. She and Svensson tied for fifth in the tournament with seven points in seven games played in Milan.
- Jungåker was second on Team Sweden with 164:20 played in seven games. She averaged 23:28 minutes per game.
- Braendli finished the tournament second in total saves (161) and save percentage (95.27).
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