{"id":461783,"date":"2026-02-18T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/461783\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:10:15","slug":"the-heise-family-had-quite-the-sports-day-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/461783\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heise family had quite the sports day \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, while much of the country observed Presidents Day, the Heise family had even more to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Team USA women\u2019s hockey defeated Sweden 5-0 in the semifinals to advance to Thursday\u2019s gold medal game against Canada. <\/p>\n

One of the five goals came from 25-year-old Taylor Heise, who plays professionally for the Minnesota Frost in the PWHL.<\/p>\n

Through six games, Team USA has outscored its opponents by an average of five goals per game and has allowed just one goal.<\/p>\n

Later that night, her younger brother had a clutch moment of his own. <\/p>\n

Nate Heise of No. 6 Iowa State hit a quick-release corner 3-pointer with 1:17 remaining to seal an upset of No. 2 Houston in Big 12 basketball action. <\/p>\n

The Cougars had led by 10 points with seven minutes left before the late rally.<\/p>\n

Nate Heise was named player of the game<\/a> and finished with 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting, including 3 for 3 from 3-point range. He added six rebounds and one assist in 26 minutes.<\/p>\n

After the game, Nate Heise was asked who had the better day \u2014 him or his sister. <\/p>\n

\"\"United States’ Taylor Heise (27) celebrates after scoring a goal against Sweden during the second period of a women’s ice hockey semifinal match at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. | Carolyn Kaster, Associated Press <\/p>\n

He chose himself, citing his one-point, down-to-the-wire win against No. 2 Houston versus his sister\u2019s dominant 5-0 victory over Sweden.<\/p>\n

He also noted postgame that, with most of his family in Italy to watch his sister, they were asleep before the Iowa State game and missed his game-winning shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, while much of the country observed Presidents Day, the Heise family had even more to celebrate.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,1442],"class_list":{"0":"post-461783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-news-feed-national"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116090387709408718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}