When U.S. Olympian Britta Curl-Salemme shared an Instagram video showing a Sunday in her life, it brought together scenes from what she called “game day and the Lord's day,” including her morning routine, attendance at a Latin Mass with her husband, time reading Scripture, and game footage from a win by the Minnesota Frost.
Her caption quoted Mark 10:45 — “For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve” — a verse she has said is her favorite.
Curl-Salemme is a forward for the U.S. Women's National Ice Hockey Team and for the Frost in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). As the U.S. prepared for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, the 25-year-old North Dakota native was entering her Olympic debut season.
Over the past year, Curl-Salemme has used social media to share elements of her Catholic faith with followers more and more frequently, alongside updates from her professional hockey career. In one post, she shared masstimes.org as a resource for finding nearby parishes while traveling for games.
“Gotta go to Mass — it’s even more important than your morning carbs,” she said.
Other posts have offered brief glimpses of devotional life away from the rink. Curl-Salemme has shared that she is following Ascension’s “Bible in a Year” reading plan and has shared clips of her husband praying the Rosary at home.
The posts are part of a partnership she began last fall with FIERCE Athlete, a Catholic ministry that encourages female athletes in their God-given identity. Curl-Salemme joined the group’s “FIERCE Sisterhood” and collaborated on several posts sharing what her faith looks like. In one, she cited St. Paul saying “compete well for the faith” (1 Tim. 6:12), writing that the partnership was an opportunity “to share my faith and be reminded of who I am and why I play.”
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Her Instagram bio contains the acronym “AMDG,” an abbreviation for the Jesuit Latin motto Ad majorem Dei gloriam, “for the greater glory of God,” and includes a link to Mass times.
Raised in Bismarck, North Dakota, Curl-Salemme grew up Catholic, and her faith remained central to her life as her hockey career advanced. She played college hockey at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she contributed to the Badgers’ national success, before being selected No. 10 overall by Minnesota in the 2024 PWHL Draft.
Internationally, she has won gold medals with the U.S. at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Under-18 Women’s World Championship in 2018 and at the IIHF Women’s World Championships in 2023 and 2025, along with silver medals in 2021 and 2024.
The U.S. women's national ice hockey team is off to a strong start in the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics as the s top seed in Group A. It has dominated early preliminary-round play with convincing wins — 5-1 over Czechia and 5-0 over Finland — and remains positioned as a top contender for gold as defending silver medalists from 2022.