The irony in trump demeaning the women's hockey team - Hockey legend Ellen Hughes is mom of 2 of Team USA men's players

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She also served as consultant to the USA women's hockey team.

Gee, I wonder where those boys learned their winning ways????

Weinberg-Hughes, 56, has not one but two sons on that winning team. Her oldest son, Quinn Hughes, a defender for the Minnesota Wild, played alongside brother Jack. And Weinberg-Hughes was also on the coaching staff of the U.S. women’s hockey team as a Player Development Consultant.

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Ellen has had a long and storied career in hockey. It all started when Adam started playing the game. “I wanted to do everything my little brother did and since I was a little girl, I wanted to play hockey,” she shared in a 2025 interview. She started playing when she was just 7-years-old.
A report from Channel 5 Action Sports News in Fort Worth featured 12-year-old Ellen playing with only boys on Texas’s Pee Wee team as an aggressive defender. The boys paid her nothing but compliments as her dad, Dr. Warren Weinberg, yelled instructions to the team from the sidelines. The older Weinberg said that he feared that as Ellen got older she would struggle to keep up with the “muscular strength” of the boys, but “she likes it, so we let her play.”

In that same interview, a young Ellen shares her dream of becoming a professional hockey player. “It’s just a goal that I want to reach, it’s something that I’ve wanted,” she said. When asked if she thinks she’s going to make it, she seems incredibly confident that she will.
And Weinberg-Hughes did. She was lucky to play hockey for the University of New Hampshire, which was way ahead of its time for offering women’s sports scholarships. She also played lacrosse and soccer for the school, because apparently, she is triple talented.
In 1992, she played on the U.S. women’s national hockey team, representing the country at the Women’s World Championship and earning a silver medal
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https://www.kveller.com/jack-hughes-jewish-mom-ellen-weinberg-hughes-is-a-hockey-legend-too/

OH, and another irony of a girl playing boys' sports. Good thing no one was trying to protect Ellen back then.