Caroline Ouellette and Julie Chu, the former captains of the Canadian and U.S. women's hockey teams, respectively, welcomed their first child on Nov. 5. Ouellette posted a picture of the pair, along with daughter Liv Chu-Ouellette, on Instagram on Monday. 
 
 "I feel truly blessed to experience this incredible adventure with my love and best friend Julie," Ouellette wrote, adding that she was pregnant with Liv when she and Chu won the Clarkson Cup in March as members of the Canadian Women's Hockey League's Montreal Canadiennes. 
 
 "We have already been blessed with so many things in our life: amazing friends and family, love, representing our countries, and doing things we are passionate about each day," Chu wrote in a companion Instagram post on Monday. "We couldn't have felt luckier, until we were blessed with the most incredible gift so far." 
 
 Ouellette captained Team Canada to gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and also owns gold medals from the three previous Winter Games. Chu, who wore the 'C' from 2011-13, is a four-time Olympic medallist with the Americans, earning three silvers (2002, 2010, 2014) and one bronze (2006). 
 
 Chu is not on the active roster for the Canadiennes due to her commitments as head coach at Montreal's Concordia University, while Ouellette is "on leave for the next few months," the team tweeted in October. 
 
 The announcement from the former competitors turned parents generated a flurry of congratulations on social media. 
 
 CWHL excited about our 2038 newest draft pick. Congrats Caroline and Julie @juliechu13 @couellette13 @thecwhl @LesCanadiennes https://t.co/MpknuKU65C — @cwhlcommish 
 
 What Julie Chu and Caroline Ouellette have proved is that you too can live the life of an inspirational sports movie with a compelling relationship arc. — @hiheelshisticks 
 
 This good news is not out there enough. Congratulations to Caroline Ouellette 🇨🇦 and Julie Chu 🇺🇸 Olympic rivals, CWHL teammates who had their first child today. pic.twitter.com/57BeJUP5AH — @JoePack 
 
 I keep looking at Julie Chu and Caroline Ouelette's baby announcement and tearing up. These women have sacrificed so much, and achieved great things, and I'm so happy they get to make a family together. No one deserves it more. — @lynneelizabeth 
 
 However, one question remains: do you send Liv a Maple Leaf onesie or a star-spangled one? 

 McKayla Maroney spoke about Larry Nassar for the first time in front of media on Tuesday, reportedly calling the ex-USA Gymnastics team doctor “a monster.” 
 
 Quotes from her talk at a New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children luncheon via the NYSPCC (more to come): 
 
 “Within the gymnastics world, there’s no question we need to rebuild from the ground up so this never happens again. I definitely see a future where athletes are safe and succeeding. I think this next generation is going to be even stronger with everything that we’re doing. They don’t need to continue to struggle with the repercussions of sexual abuse, and they shouldn’t have to. I shouldn’t ever have had to. My team won gold medals in spite of USA Gymnastics, MSU [Michigan State] and the USOC [U.S. Olympic Committee]. They don’t build champions, they break them. But we’re changing that. 
 
 “The No. 1 thing is prevention and awareness; and fighting for what we deserve. At the end of the day I wasn’t listened to, cared about or believed. All of those things need to be weeded out of our society because that’s where things went wrong. The red flags are so hard to catch. 
 
 “I’m really super happy to be sitting here … I signed up knowing that it would be hard, and it was … there’s a lot that comes with healing on this. To heal takes true courage. I’m really just taking it day by day. I, at times, question if my gymnastics career was really even worth it because of the stuff I’m dealing with now, and you guys do a lot with that too, helping people after the abuse happens, because sometimes you’re just left in the dust. You have to pick up the pieces of your life. That has been the hardest part for me, but it’s always three steps forward, two steps back.” 
 
 Maroney, 22, said in a Twitter post in October that she was abused by Nassar starting when she was 13 and attending a U.S. national team training camp in Houston. 
 
 Nassar told her at the time that she was receiving “medically necessary treatment he had been performing on patients for over 30 years,” she said at the time. 
 
 Her attorney, John Manly, said she had been abused between 50 and 100 times by Nassar, including at the Olympics and during the world championships. 
 
 In December, Maroney wrote that Nassar “deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison” in a letter of testimony to a judge presiding over one of his cases. She did not read the letter in court. 
 
 “Dr Nassar was not a doctor, he in fact is, was, and forever shall be, a child molester, and a monster of a human being,” Maroney wrote. “He abused my trust, abused my body and left scars on my psyche that may never go away.” 
 
 Nassar, 54, pleaded guilty to molesting patients and possessing child pornography and was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison earlier this year after roughly 200 women gave statements against him in two courtrooms over 10 extraordinary days. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report. 
 
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– From rival hockey captains to team members to parents: Caroline Ouellette and Julie Chu, who captained the Canadian and US women's hockey teams, respectively, welcomed daughter Liv Chu-Ouellette Nov. 5, the CBC reports. In Ouellette's Instagram announcement Monday, the 38-year-old noted she was pregnant when she and Chu, with the Canadian Women's Hockey League's Montreal Canadiennes, won the Clarkson Cup in March. "We have already been blessed with so many things in our life: Amazing friends and family, Love, Representing our countries, and doing things we are passionate about each day. We couldn't have felt luckier, until we were blessed with the most incredible Gift so far," wrote Chu, 35, in her own Instagram post. Ouellette has four Winter Olympics gold medals (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014) and was captain when Team Canada won gold in the 2014 Sochi Games, while Chu has three Olympic silvers (2002, 2010, 2014) and a bronze (2006) from that same span; she captained Team USA from 2011 to 2013. NBC Sports calls the Team Canada-Team USA rivalry "one of the most contentious national-team rivalries over the last two decades," noting the teams have also met in all 18 world championship finals. Chu is now head coach at Montreal's Concordia University, while Ouellette is out on leave for a few months from the Canadiennes. "What Julie Chu and Caroline Ouellette have proved is that you too can live the life of an inspirational sports movie with a compelling relationship arc," tweeted High Heels & High Sticks over the weekend.