Eom Su-yeon explained

Eom Su-yeon
Birth Date:1 February 2001
Position:Defence
Shoots:Right
Height Cm:168
Weight Kg:60
League:NCAA
Team:St. Lawrence Saints
Former Teams:Ice Avengers
Sex:f
Ntl Team:KOR
Ntl Team 2:COR
Career Start:2017

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

Career

Korean National Team

Eom represented South Korea in the ice hockey girl's individual skills challenge at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.[1] She qualified for the finals ranked 5th, after finishing in the top 3 each of the Fastest Lap, Shooting Accuracy, and Skating Agility events during the preliminary rounds.[2]

She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics[3] 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.[4]

In 2019, she was a member of the inaugural South Korean Women's U18 team that participated in the 2019 IIHF World Women%27s U18 Championship in the Group 1B Qualification Tournament.[5] The South Korean team went undefeated en route to winning the gold medal and Eom was named Best Defender of the tournament.[6]

NCAA

Eom began her college ice hockey career with the St. Lawrence Saints program in the 2021–22 season.[7] 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.[8] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Skills Test: 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games. IIHF. en.
  2. Web site: 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games: Ice Hockey Women's SKills Challenge Qualifcation. IIHF. en.
  3. Web site: Athlete Profile: Eom Suyeon - Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. www.pyeongchang2018.com. 12 February 2018. 13 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180213021934/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/ice-hockey/athlete-profile-n3040912-eom-suyeon.htm. dead.
  4. Web site: Unified Korean Team - Olympic - International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF. pyeongchang2018.iihf.hockey. 2018-04-14. 29 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181229235825/http://pyeongchang2018.iihf.hockey/women/news/unified-korean-team. dead.
  5. Web site: 2019 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIV IBQ: South Korea Team Roster. 2022-04-07. IIHF. en.
  6. Web site: 2019 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIV IBQ: Best Players Selected by the Directorate. 2022-04-07. IIHF. en.
  7. Web site: 2021-22 Women's Hockey Roster. 2021-09-22. St. Lawrence University Athletics. en.
  8. Web site: Carey . Cap . College women's hockey: Eom sparks St. Lawrence past Princeton, 3-0, at Appleton Arena . 2022-02-11 . NNY360 . 4 February 2022 . en.
  9. Web site: Burchfield. Caleigh . Morgan Records Ninth Career Shutout in 3-0 Win over Princeton. 2022-02-11. St. Lawrence University Athletics. 4 February 2022 . en.