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Eom Su-yeon
엄 수연
Eom representing South Korea at the 2017 World Championship Division 2A
Born (2001-02-01) 1 February 2001 (age 23)
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb)
Position Defence
Shoots Right
NCAA team
Former teams		 St. Lawrence Saints
Ice Avengers
National team  South Korea and
 Korea
Playing career 2017–present
In this Korean name, the family name is Eom.

Eom Su-yeon (Korean: 엄수연; born 1 February 2001) is a South Korean ice hockey player and member of the South Korean national team, currently playing with the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of NCAA Division I.

Career

Korean National Team

She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics[1] as part of a unified team of 35 players drawn from both North and South Korea. The team's coach was Sarah Murray and the team was in Group B competing against Switzerland, Japan and Sweden.[2]

In 2019, she was a member of the inaugural South Korean Women's U18 team that participated in the 2019 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in the Group 1B Qualification Tournament.[3] The South Korean team went undefeated and Eom was named Best Defenceman of the tournament. [4]

NCAA

Eom began her college ice hockey career with the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program in the 2021–22 season.[5] After making a midseason switch from playing defence to forward, she scored her first collegiate goal on 4 February 2022 in a 3–0 victory against Princeton University. [6] [7]

References

  1. ^ "Athlete Profile: Eom Suyeon - Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games". www.pyeongchang2018.com.
  2. ^ "Unified Korean Team - Olympic - International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF". pyeongchang2018.iihf.hockey. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  3. ^ "2019 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIV IBQ: South Korea Team Roster" (PDF). iihf.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  4. ^ "2019 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIV IBQ: Best Players Selected by the Directorate" (PDF). iihf.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  5. ^ "2021-22 Women's Hockey Roster". St. Lawrence University Athletics. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  6. ^ CAREYccarey@wdt.net, C. A. P. "College women's hockey: Eom sparks St. Lawrence past Princeton, 3-0, at Appleton Arena". NNY360. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  7. ^ Burchfield, Caleigh. "Morgan Records Ninth Career Shutout in 3-0 Win over Princeton". St. Lawrence University Athletics. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
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