Lyndsey Fry will be the first native Arizonan to play hockey in the Olympics after being named Wednesday to the U.S. women’s team for the 2014 Sochi Games.

Fry, 21, of Chandler was among 21 players to make the final roster, announced between the second and third periods at the NHL Winter Classic game in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The Olympics are Feb. 7-23 in Sochi -team.html, Russia, where the U.S. women’s hockey team will try to dethrone three-time champion Canada. The Americans play preliminary games against Finland on Feb. 8, Switzerland on Feb. 10 and Canada on Feb. 12.

Fry is a 5-8 forward who also played for the U.S. in its title run at the 2013 World Championships. She is taking a year off from Harvard, where she was All-Ivy League second team in 2012-13 off a season with 16 goals and 36 points.

Fry had a goal and an assist against Canada during the Bring on the World Tour that began in October and ended with four straight wins over the Canadians.

Harvard’s Katey Stone is the U.S. Olympic team coach. The final two were cut from the National team, originally 25, on Wednesday.

“It’s completely different than in college,” Fry said last week about working with Stone. “I don’t want to call it extra distance, but she is professional. That’s how it needs to be. You learn how to adjust to that. The coaching is still the same She’s unbelievable at what she does.”

Fry’s parents Doug and Lynne, brother Wesley, also a hockey player, and grandparents will be traveling to Russia for the Olympics along with some family friends.

“It’s going to take a little bit for it to sink in,” Fry said of the prospect of becoming an Olympian during her recent holiday break at home. “So many people went into this. All of that coming together will be unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.”

Fry took up ice skating at age 6 and played on boys teams through two years at Tempe Corona del Sol High. She then joined the Colorado Select travel team, which led to opportunities on U.S. medal-winning teams at the 2009 and ’10 U18 World Championships and her career at Harvard, starting in 2010.

She said playing on the National team this year with Olympic berths at stake is “physically the hardest thing I’ve ever done. When you’re in college and you have a bad practice, you don’t have time to think about it because you have to focus your energy elsewhere. When hockey is life, whether it’s going well or not so well, it impacts your entire mood.”