Emi Biotti, a Harvard women’s ice hockey standout, has earned a spot on the USA Hockey Collegiate Select Team that will square off against Canada in a three‑game series scheduled for mid‑August in British Columbia.
A Golden Background
The selection follows a rigorous evaluation at the USA Hockey National Festival in Lake Placid, New York, where Biotti trained alongside the nation’s top collegiate talent and impressed coaches with her defensive reliability and offensive spark.
Biotti arrives with an already distinguished résumé: she was a key member of the gold‑medal winning U.S. squad at the 2025 IIHF U18 World Championship in Finland, and during her freshman season she appeared in all 34 games, posting four goals, six assists and 66 blocked shots.
Joining her on the roster will be teammate Ainsley Tuffy, the Crimson’s goaltender who also competed at the Lake Placid festival, while John Wroblewski, the architect of the United States’ 2026 Milano‑Cortina Olympic gold‑medal team, will serve as head coach for the Select side.
The matchups are set to take place at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, British Columbia, a venue known for its state‑of‑the‑art facilities and electric atmosphere, promising a high‑stakes showdown between two of the sport’s rising powers.