Austin Ortega

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United StatesUnited States  Austin Ortega Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 12, 1994
place of birth Escondido , California , USA
size 173 cm
Weight 79 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2011–2012 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders
2012-2013 Indiana Ice
2013 Fargo Force
2013-2017 University of Nebraska Omaha
2017-2018 San Diego Gulls
Utah Grizzlies
2018-2019 Växjö Lakers Hockey
since 2019 Polar bears Berlin

Austin Ortega (born April 12, 1994 in Escondido , California ) is an American ice hockey player who has been playing for the Eisbären Berlin in the German Ice Hockey League since February 2019 .

Career

Success in the US college league and ECHL

Ortega played during his junior years for various clubs in the United States Hockey League (USHL), in which he was the top scorer of his club Indiana Ice in the 2012/13 season . At the end of the main round of this season, he moved to the Fargo Force , with which the Californian reached the play-off finals of the USHL and was the top scorer in the play-offs of his team with eight goals. After this season he joined the ice hockey team of the University of Nebraska Omaha , which is active as the Omaha Mavericks in the US college league NCAA as a representative of the Midwestern teams in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC). Ortega played four seasons for the Mavericks, and in his second season he set a new NCAA record with eleven winning goals ("Game winning goals") in one season. In the following 2015/16 season he was one of the most successful scorers on his team alongside Jake Guentzel . In his last college season 2016/17 he was the most successful scorer of the Mavericks with 47 points, now held the NCAA record in this statistic with 23 winning goals, was nominated for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award for the best US college player of the season and in the all- NCHC star team appointed. At the end of the 2016/17 season , the San Diego Gulls , the AHL team from his home region in California, signed him. After 37 AHL games for the Gulls (7 goals), Ortega moved to the Utah Grizzlies in the ECHL in January 2018 . At the Grizzlies he scored 45 points in 29 games and was voted ECHL Rookie of the Month for February 2018.

Change to Europe

For the 2018/19 season Ortega signed a two-year contract with the Växjö Lakers , the reigning champion of the highest Swedish ice hockey league, SHL at the time . In one of his first appearances for the Swedish team, he was able to score a hat trick in the Champions Hockey League game against EC Red Bull Salzburg , but had to get used to the more defensive style of play of the Lakers. In February 2019, Eisbären Berlin loaned the American from the DEL to the end of the season for long-term injured Thomas Oppenheimer . With the polar bears he formed a successful attack line with Louis-Marc Aubry and Brendan Ranford and qualified with the club for the pre-playoffs.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2015 NCHC Honorable Mention All-Star Team
  • 2017 NCHC First All-Star Team
  • 2017 NCAA (West) Second All-Star Team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Force player Ortega sets NCAA record , fargovorce.com, March 11, 2015, accessed March 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Leading through hard work: Austin Ortega , University of Nebraska Omaha , October 31, 2016, accessed March 17, 2019
  3. ↑ Escondido native Ortega heads home, sign AHL contract with San Diego , carubberhockey.com, accessed March 17, 2019
  4. ^ Gulls sign San Diego native , NBC , March 20, 2017, accessed March 17, 2019
  5. ↑ Awards keep coming for Ortega, today named ECHL Rookie of the month , carubberhockey.com, March 2, 2018, accessed March 17, 2019
  6. ↑ Austin Ortega signs with Växjö Lakers , playmaker92.com, June 28, 2018, accessed March 17, 201
  7. ^ Austin Ortega puts three past Salzburg in Style , Champions Hockey League , accessed on March 17, 2019
  8. ↑ US boy Austin Ortega joins Eisbären Berlin until the end of the season , Ice Hockey News , February 6, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2019
  9. ↑ New polar bear Ortega for the first time on the ice , Berliner Morgenpost , February 12, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2019
  10. ↑ Ortega gets polar bears going , rbb , February 18, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2019
Eisbären Berlin squad in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Ortega, Austin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Escondido , California