Tessa Bonhomme's Second Act Is Behind The PWHL Mic

Tessa Bonhomme co-hosts Jocks in Jills, the PWHL's official podcast, produced by the league's in-house studio, PWHL Media House.

She started the show independently with Julia Tocheri in January 2024. That November, the PWHL bought it, brought both hosts in-house and made it a pillar of its new media operation. A third season launched in October 2025 with two episodes a week, following a year in which the show's Spotify listening hours climbed more than 300 percent.

For the February 2026 Olympics, the league sent the show to Milan to broadcast live through the medal rounds, 16 years after Bonhomme won gold on home ice at Vancouver 2010. In May 2026, she and Tocheri hosted a live postgame show after the Walter Cup Final. The podcast is still running weekly, now covering a league that has grown to 12 teams for 2026-27.

Bonhomme, born July 23, 1985 in Sudbury, Ontario, played 107 games for Canada as a defender and put up 51 points, 41 of them 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 she set program records for a defender with 128 career points and 45 in a season, and in 2008 she was WCHA Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year.

She went first overall in the CWHL's inaugural 2010 draft, captained the Toronto Furies and has called their 2014 Clarkson Cup the most fulfilling moment of her playing career. She retired from the national team and joined TSN full-time on the same day, September 17, 2014, and stayed a decade as a SportsCentre host and reporter before leaving for the PWHL in 2024.

Outside hockey, she won season 3 of CBC's Battle of the Blades on November 14, 2011 with David Pelletier, the first female hockey player to appear on the show. She has also played herself in seven episodes of Shoresy, set in her hometown.