Nicole Hensley, USA Olympic Gold Medal Winning Women's Hockey Player

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Episode 452

Nicole Hensley is a professional women's hockey goaltender and a member of the United State's 2018 Gold Medal winning team at the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Growing up a fan of Patrick Roy, Hensley always wanted to be a goalie and began her hockey journey when she was just a little girl.

As a member of the U.S. Women's National Team, Nicole has competed in one Olympic Winter Games (gold-2018), two International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championships (gold-2016, 2017); and two Four Nations Cups (1st-2016, 2017)

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Nicole about where her love for hockey began, how she became a member of Team USA, the experience of competing in an Olympics and that moment she won a Gold Medal. Nicole's faith is strong and throughout the conversation, she talks about how the Lord has been her guide.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:19.9	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, everyone.
0:21.6	I'm Jason Romano.
0:22.6	So great to have you joining us here on the program today and very excited about our guest.
0:27.6	We don't normally get to talk to an Olympic gold medal winner.
0:31.6	But today we get to do that with Nicole Hensley.
0:34.6	She was a member of Team USA and the Olympic gold medal winning women's hockey team from 2018.
0:42.0	And if you remember watching those games in Pyong Chang in South Korea, you saw what was probably one of the more incredible finishes you'll ever see in that gold medal game when the USA prevailed and won.
0:54.8	And Nicole Hensley joins us on the podcast to talk about that and to talk about just her
1:00.4	journey of faith and her journey of hockey.
1:03.2	And it's an interesting time for women's hockey, especially from the professional ranks.
1:08.1	Nicole talks about that as well.
1:10.5	She's great. I think you'll really like
1:12.1	getting to know Nicole Hensley, USA Olympic gold medal winning hockey goalie, who joins us here
1:18.9	on Sports Spectrum. Take a listen.
1:31.7	Nicole, welcome to sports spectrum.
1:33.8	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:34.5	Appreciate it.
1:35.1	Absolutely.
1:36.1	Good to talk to you. And USA Olympic gold medal winner, it's been a few years.
1:41.1	But when I say that, that's still got to kind of bring a big smile to your face, doesn't it? Yeah, absolutely. It's been a few years, but when I say that, that's still got to kind of bring a big smile to your face, doesn't it?
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