Noora Räty
Noora Räty (* May 29, 1989 in Espoo ) is a Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper who plays for the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association since 2009. At 16 she was the youngest member of the Finnish team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Career
Noora Räty played despite her young age, early on in the Naisten SM- sarja, the highest woman League of Finland, and in 2004 was a participant in the IIHF Women 's Hockey Development Camp 2004. The ice hockey games she learned at the Club Jäähonka Espoo, before deciding on the male C- Junior Team of EPS Espoo came to the Espoo Blues, where she played in the women's team and there rose immediately to the first goalkeeper. The Blues won in 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Finnish championship.
Since 2009, she studied at the University of Minnesota sports science and plays for the Golden Gophers, the ice hockey team of the University in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Best goalkeeper of Naisten SM- sarja
- 2007 Player of the Year and best goalkeeper of Naisten SM- sarja
- 2007 Best goalkeeper of the World Cup
- 2008 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2008 most valuable player of the World Cup
- 2008 Best goalkeeper of the World Cup
- 2008 Player of the Year the Naisten SM- sarja
- 2009 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2010 Nominated for the Patty Kazmaier Award
- 2010 bronze medal at the Winter Olympics
- 2011 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2011 best goalkeeper of the World Cup
Career Stats
Internationally
( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )