Vilma Vaattovaara Explained

Birth Date:1993 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Kirkkonummi, Finland
Height M:1.71
Weight Kg:68
Catches:Left
Played For:London Dragons C
Tampereen Ilves
New Hampshire Wildcats
HPK Hämeenlinna
League Coach:NIHL
Team Coach:Streatham Black Hawks
Sex:f
Ntl Team:Finland
Career Start:2008
Career End:2019
Career Start Coach:2021

Vilma Vaattovaara (born 10 March 1993) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and retired goaltender. She serves as goaltending coach with the Streatham Youth Ice Hockey Club, the youth affiliate of Streatham IHC. Her coaching oversight includes the Streatham Black Hawks in the Division II of the National Ice Hockey League (NIHL) in addition to the club's minor and junior teams.

As a member of the Finnish national team, she won a bronze medal at the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship.[1]

Playing career

Vaattovaara played college ice hockey with the New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey program in the Hockey East (HEA) conference of the NCAA Division I during 2012 to 2016, and with the London Dragons C of the British Universities Ice Hockey Association (BUIHA) in 2018–19.[2] [3]

In her native Finland, she played in the Naisten Liiga with the Tampereen Ilves Naiset and HPK Kiekkonaiset, with whom she won the Aurora Borealis Cup in 2011; she recorded the league's best goals against average and save percentage in the 2010–11, 2011–12, and 2017–18 seasons.[4]

Personal life

Vaattovaara has a BSc in zoology/pre-veterinary medicine from the University of New Hampshire and is a veterinary student at the Royal Veterinary College of the University of London.

, she is the logistics head for the independently operated University of London Dragons organisation, which manages the various London Dragons ice hockey teams in the BUIHA.[5]

Her siblings also played ice hockey – her elder brother, Ville, was a goaltender in the Finnish junior leagues and her younger sister, Viivi, was a defenseman in the Naisten Liiga and played four years of NCAA hockey, one Division I season with the UConn Huskies and three Division III seasons with the Buffalo State Bengals.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2015 IIHF World Championship roster. pdf. 31 March 2015. IIHF. 9 April 2015.
  2. Web site: 2015-16 Women's Ice Hockey Roster: 35 Vilma Vaattovaara . 2022-03-19 . University of New Hampshire Athletics . en.
  3. Web site: London Dragons 18-19 Rosters – Dragons C . 2022-03-19 . BUIHA.
  4. Web site: Foster . Meredith . 2017-12-03 . Behind The Mask: Vilma Vaattovaara . 2022-03-19 . The Ice Garden . en.
  5. Web site: University of London Dragons Ice Hockey > Organisation . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220315001322/https://www.londondragons.com/ . 2022-03-15 . 2022-03-19 . London Dragons . en.