Eveliina Mäkinen
Eveliina Suonpää | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Kiukainen, Finland | 12 April 1995||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10 st 10 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Goaltender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catches | Left | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SDHL team Former teams |
Linköping HC Team Kuortane Ilves Naiset Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs Lukko Naiset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2011–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eveliina Suonpää (born 12 April 1995) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender who currently plays with Linköping HC in the SDHL and with the Finnish national team.
Biography
Suonpää was born in Kiukainen.[1][2] She has played ice hockey since the age of four. She started playing with her brother, and learned the game in an ice hockey rink in her home municipality. She played on hockey teams with men for two seasons during her junior years before eventually joining all-women teams.[3] She currently plays for Lukko in Jääkiekon naisten SM-sarja, the Finnish national women's ice hockey league,[4] where she finished the 2012–13 season with a 3.02 goals against average and a .917 save percentage.[4]
Suonpää played with the Finland women's national under-18 team during the 2013 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, finishing a 2.77 goals against average and .905 save percentage.[4][4] She made her debut on Finland women's national ice hockey team in August 2013 with a 4–1 victory over Japan. She split goaltending for that game with Tiina Ranne, who was also making her debut with the team.[5] Suonpää was chosen to play in the 2014 Winter Olympics as the third goaltender, a selection that she said took her by surprise.[3]
She currently lives in Kuortane, where she is a student at the Kuortaneen urheilulukio sports academy. She has aspirations for playing ice hockey in the United States.[3]
As of the 2014–15 school year Suonpää attends the University of Minnesota Duluth and plays for their women's hockey team, which is a NCAA Division 1 program.
References
- ^ "Eveliina Suonpää". 2014 Winter Olympics. February 2014. Archived from the original on 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Tällä joukkueella Naisleijonat hakee mitalia Sotshista". Yle Urheilu. 18 December 2013. Archived from the original on 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ a b c Hanhikoski, Herkko (21 January 2014). "Opiskelijana olympialaisiin: Eveliina Suonpää". Jatkoaika.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Eveliina Suonpää". Eurohockey.com. February 2014. Archived from the original on 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Naisleijonat kaatoi Japanin – Susanna Tapani hurjassa iskussa, maalivahtidebytantit onnistuivat". Leijonat.fi. 8 March 2013. Archived from the original on 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
- Eveliina Mäkinen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1995 births
- Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players of Finland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- People from Eura
- Finnish women's ice hockey goaltenders
- Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players
- Finnish expatriate ice hockey people
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Finnish ice hockey goaltender stubs