'It's time': U.S. women's hockey star Hilary Knight says 2026 Olympics will be her last

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· Posted: May 20, 2025 9:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

United States women's hockey large Hilary Knight said the 2026 Milan Olympics volition beryllium the last 1 of her stellar career, USA Today reported Tuesday.

It volition beryllium Knight's 5th Olympic Games. She has won 1 golden medal and 3 silvers. The golden came successful 2018.

"It's time," Knight told USA Today. "I person grown up successful this programme and it's conscionable fixed maine truthful much. I'm astatine peace. I conscionable person this feeling that it's time. And I'm grateful that — hopefully, I tin enactment steadfast and everything — I tin spell retired erstwhile I'd similar to beryllium done. That is specified a privilege that lone a fistful of competitors get."

If the U.S. wins a medal successful Milan, Knight would go the archetypal American pistillate to triumph 5 Olympic hockey medals.

"I've had an unthinkable vocation astatine the Olympic stage," Knight said. "And [in Milan] I volition person the aforesaid ngo and the aforesaid purpose, and that's to triumph an Olympic gold."

Knight, 35, indicated she plans to proceed playing successful the Professional Women's Hockey League aft the Olympics. But she doesn't spot herself playing the athletics into 2030 erstwhile the Olympics volition beryllium held successful the French Alps.

Knight scored a league-high 29 points for the Boston Fleet of the PWHL this season.

Across each levels of U.S. nationalist squad play, Knight has 161 goals and 125 assists successful 243 games. She has won 10 women's satellite title golden medals, the astir caller coming successful April.

The nonmigratory of Sun Valley, Idaho was a assemblage prima astatine Wisconsin and helped the Badgers triumph 2 nationalist championships.