Jack and Quinn Represent Team USA within the 2026 Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics characteristic many unimaginable tales of households, however none fairly just like the Hughes household. Brothers Jack and Quinn are enjoying for Team USA males’s ice hockey and their mother Ellen Weinberg-Hughes is a growth coach on the Team USA girls’s ice hockey group. Their third brother, Luke, performs within the NFL, and their father, Jim Hughes, is a former hockey participant himself—and was beforehand the director of participant growth with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Hughes household attends the 2024 NHL Awards.
They’ve already made historical past in some ways—the primary American household to have three siblings picked within the first spherical of the NHL draft, the primary Jewish participant (Jack) to be picked no. 1 general—however all eyes are on them in Milan as they give the impression of being to convey residence not only one gold medal, however three. “I think all three of us have come to try to win the gold medal. That’s the most important thing: coming here and trying to do well,” Jack advised Vogue. “Doing this with Quinn, though…it is super special, and it’s something that I’ve really been looking forward to.”
Here, get to know the Hughes household:
Ellen Weinberg-Hughes
Ellen was a three-sport faculty athlete, enjoying soccer, lacrosse, and hockey on the University of New Hampshire. After, she performed for Team USA on the IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship in 1992, serving to lead the group to silver. She was named to the All-Star group of the event.
After her athletic profession ended, she labored for ESPN as a reporter. She now works as a participant growth guide for Team USA girls’s hockey.
She is the rationale all three of her sons play hockey. “We didn’t know what sport it would be, but I guess we thought our kids would be in athletics, some sort of competitive sports,” Jim stated in 2018. “And my wife got them involved in skating when they were very young. That’s what we did. We were a hockey family.”
Jim Hughes
Jim performed hockey in faculty at Providence College, after which turned a coach. He labored within the minor leagues in Orlando, as an assistant coach for the Boston Bruins, and different roles, earlier than turning into director of participant growth for the Toronto Maple Leafs. “The things he was telling 20-year-old prospects, he was telling us when we were 12,” Jack says. “Whenever we got the chance to watch a game with my dad, it was like watching video with an NHL coach.” Jim is now the director of participant growth for CAA.
Quinn Hughes
Quinn Hughes through the Olympics.
The eldest Hughes brother, 26, performed faculty hockey on the University of Michigan from 2017 to 2019, and was drafted seventh general by the Canucks in 2018. He completed out his season at Michigan, after which joined the NHL. He was traded to the Minnesota Wild this previous season.
Jack Hughes
Jack Hughes, first general decide by the New Jersey Devils.
The center Hughes brother, now 24, was picked first general within the 2019 NHL Draft. He performs for the New Jersey Devils. “It’s in my blood to be an athlete, to be a hockey player,” Hughes advised The Michael Kay Show. “My parents are having a ball with it.”
Luke Hughes
Luke Hughes this January.
The youngest Hughes brother, 22, just isn’t on Team USA however he was a first-round decide within the 2021 NHL Draft. He was drafted fourth general to the Devils, the place he performs along with his brother. He is at present on long-term injured reserve because of a shoulder damage.
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