Alina Mueller

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Alina Mueller
Date of birth March 12, 1998
place of birth Lengnau AG , Switzerland
Size 167 cm
Weight 60 kg
position center
number # 25
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2014 EHC Winterthur
2013-2015 ZSC Lions women
2014-2017 EHC Kloten
2017-2018 ZSC Lions women
since 2018 Northeastern University

Alina Müller (born March 12, 1998 in Lengnau AG ) is a Swiss ice hockey player . She has played for the Northeastern University team since 2018 . Her brother Mirco Müller is also an ice hockey player.

Career

Alina Müller comes from the junior division of the EHC Winterthur and went through all age groups up to the U17 juniors. From 2012, she played in parallel for the women's team of the ZSC Lions in the performance class A and won with the team in 2013 , the Swiss championship .

Like many other young athletes, Alina Müller attended the Rämibühl art and sports high school in Zurich and graduated from there in 2018.

Due to the better training opportunities, from 2014 Müller played more for the U17 juniors of the EHC Kloten in the top division of the U17 age group (elite novices).

Between 2015 and 2017 she was only active at EHC Kloten due to time problems. In 2017 she (at the age of 19) no longer received an over-age exemption for the U17 division and switched back to the women's ice hockey team of the ZSC Lions. There, Müller was one of the best offensive players in SWHL A in the 2017/18 season. Alina Müller has been studying at Northeastern University , which Florence Schelling and Julia Marty also attended, since the 2018/19 season , and plays for the university's ice hockey team at the same time in the Hockey East .

In the 2019/20 season, Müller was one of the three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award for the best female college ice hockey player in the United States, but the trophy was won by the Canadian Élizabeth Giguère .

International

From 2013 Müller played junior indoor national team U18 of Switzerland for and took this at the U18 World Cup 2013, the Division I in part. She took second place with the national team and was named the best striker of the tournament (at the age of 14).

It was not until January 2014 that Müller was nominated by national coach René Kammerer for the Winter Olympics in Sochi . At the age of 15, Alina Müller was the youngest member of the entire Swiss Olympic squad and the youngest ice hockey player in the Olympic ice hockey tournament. In the game for third place, Müller scored 4-2 in the empty goal of the Swedish national team 1:07 minutes before the end of the game . This goal should be the decisive one in the end, because 43 seconds before the end Pernilla Winberg shortened for Sweden 4: 3, so that Switzerland won the bronze medal.

At the U18 Junior World Championship 2014 of the Div. A few weeks later, Müller made it to the top division with the U18 team and was named the best striker in the tournament. She also took first place in the scorers and top scorers. Further participation in the U18 World Championships followed in 2015 and 2016 , with the latter once again honoring her as the best striker, being appointed to the All-Star Team and becoming both top scorer and top scorer of the tournament. In total, Müller scored 24 goals and 9 assists in 20 games in four U18 world championship tournaments.

She received her first women's world championship appearance at the 2015 Women's Ice Hockey World Championship , where she also scored her first World Cup goal. A year later, at the 2016 World Cup , she scored 1 goal and assist. With 4 goals and 4 assists, she was the second-best scorer in the Swiss selection and sixth-best scorer at the 2017 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

Winning the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Career statistics

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Club and college competitions

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2012/13 EHC Winterthur Top Novices (U17) 1 1 0 1 0
2012/13 ZSC Lions women LKA 4th 2 3 5 0 2 1 1 2 0
2013/14 EHC Winterthur Top novices 8th 8th 3 11 0
2013/14 ZSC Lions women LKA 3 3 2 5 0 2 2 0 2 0
2014/15 EHC Kloten Elite Novices (U17) 22nd 2 4th 6th 4th 4th 0 0 0 0
2014/15 EHC Winterthur Top novices 1 3 3 6th 0
2014/15 ZSC Lions women SWHL A 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
2015/16 EHC Kloten Elite novices 33 9 5 14th 20th 4 1 0 1 1 2
2016/17 EHC Kloten Elite novices 31 13 7th 20th 14th 6th 1 0 1 6th
2017/18 ZSC Lions women SWHL A 17th 33 24 57 12 6th 17th 6th 23 0
2018/19 Northeastern University Hockey East 37 21st 30th 51 34
2019/20 Northeastern University Hockey East 38 27 39 66 12

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2013 Switzerland U18 World Championship Div. I. 5 3 4th 7th 0 +4
2014 Switzerland Olympia 6th 1 2 3 6th −8
2014 Switzerland U18 World Championship Div. I. 5 9 3 12 4th +11
2015 Switzerland WM 4th 1 0 1 4th 0
2015 Switzerland U18 World Cup 6th 5 0 5 2 −1
2016 Switzerland WM 3 1 1 2 0 −1
2016 Switzerland U18 World Cup 5 7th 2 9 10 +5
2017 Switzerland Olympic torment. 3 3 5 8th 2 +6
2017 Switzerland WM 6th 4th 4th 8th 2 +2
2018 Switzerland Olympia 6th 7th 3 10 4th +5
2019 Switzerland WM 5 1 1 2 4th –6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c nachwuchs.ehc-winterthur.ch, "The dream come true" (PDF file)
  2. ↑ Tina Schnider: "If we are not there in 2018, the success of Sochi is no longer worth much to me." In: swisshockeynews.ch. January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Angelo Rocchinotti: She wants to go to the Olympics: Bronze Alina plays with the boys. In: blick.ch. February 6, 2017, accessed January 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ A warm welcome to Jessica and Alina. In: lions-frauen.ch. April 17, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Martin Merk: Alina Müller from 2018 to the USA. In: hockeyfans.ch. November 22, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  6. ^ Stephan Roth: Alina Müller (15): Our medal chick in Sochi. In: blick.ch. February 22, 2014, accessed January 19, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Winterthurer Zeitung: Alina's Olympic premiere. In: winterthurer-zeitung.ch. February 10, 2014, accessed January 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Alina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengnau AG , Switzerland