As soon as U.S. hockey defender Laila Edwards skates onto the Olympic ice ahead of Thursday's gold medal game against Canada, she will scan the stands for the real MVP: Her 91-year-old grandmother.

Team USA just won the gold medal for women’s hockey at the Winter Olympics 2026, and for Laila Edwards, that also meant making history. When she was named to the roster, the 22-year-old hockey player ...

Team USA women’s hockey defeated Sweden, 5-0, on Monday to advance to the gold medal game at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy. Cleveland Heights, Ohio, native Laila Edwards recorded yet ...

Laila Edwards is a Team USA women’s hockey star who made history as the first Black woman to play Olympic women’s ice hockey for the United States at the 2026 Winter Games. From her parents’ early ...

The Olympic journey of Laila Edwards, the first Black woman to play for the U.S. hockey team, has captivated her hometown, Cleveland Heights. Laila Edwards is the talk of Cleveland Heights, a hometown ...

Laila Edwards just made history on the rink. During Tuesday night’s highly anticipated matchup against Canada in Milan, the 22-year-old hockey player scored the first goal of her Olympic career, and ...

MILAN — Laila Edwards called it “an incredible honor” to become the first Black woman to represent the United States in women’s Olympic hockey. On Tuesday night, the 22-year-old added another ...

Laila Edwards told "CBS Mornings it's "an incredible honor" to be the first Black woman to play on the U.S. women's ice hockey team at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. "You know, I get to be the first ...

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The Olympics are famous for upsets and surprises. But ever since women’s hockey became an Olympic sport in 1998, the U.S. and Canada have played in every gold medal match for women's hockey except ...

Team USA hockey player Laila Edwards got some words of encouragement from two other Cleveland Heights hometown heroes before the 2026 Winter Olympics. Edwards, 22, who hails from the same Ohio town as ...