Tessa Bonhomme's Second Act Is Behind The PWHL Mic
The Vancouver 2010 gold medalist co-hosts Jocks in Jills, the PWHL's official podcast, after a decade at TSN.
Jocks in Jills, the league's official podcast, is co-hosted by Tessa Bonhomme and made by the PWHL's own studio, PWHL Media House.
She started the show independently with Julia Tocheri in January 2024. The league acquired the show that November, hired both hosts and built its new media arm around it. Season three started in October 2025 with two episodes weekly, after a year in which the show's Spotify listening hours grew by more than 300 percent.
The league planned live broadcasts of the podcast from Milan during the medal rounds of the February 2026 Olympics, 16 years after Bonhomme's own gold medal at the Vancouver 2010 Games. After the Walter Cup Final in May 2026, she and Tocheri hosted a live postgame show. The podcast is still running weekly, now covering a league that has grown to 12 teams for 2026-27.
A Sudbury, Ontario, native born on July 23, 1985, Bonhomme played 107 games on Canada's blue line and had 51 points, including 41 assists. She won world championship gold in 2007 and 2012, assisting on Caroline Ouellette's overtime winner in the 2012 final, and took six 4 Nations Cup titles. At Ohio State, her 128 career points and 45 points in one season set records for a defender, and in 2008 the WCHA named her both its Player of the Year and its Defensive Player of the Year.
The CWHL made her the first pick of its first draft in 2010. She later captained the Toronto Furies, and she has described their 2014 Clarkson Cup win as the most fulfilling moment of her career on the ice. On September 17, 2014, she both retired from the national team and started full-time at TSN, where she spent 10 years as a SportsCentre host and reporter before moving to the PWHL in 2024.
Away from the rink, she and David Pelletier won the third season of CBC's Battle of the Blades on November 14, 2011; she was the first woman hockey player to compete on the show. She has also played herself in seven episodes of Shoresy, set in her hometown.
