Florence Schelling

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Florence Schelling
Date of birth March 9, 1989
place of birth Zurich , Switzerland
Size 174 cm
Weight 68 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 41
Catch hand Left
Career stations
2003-2005 GCK Lions (Juniors)
2005-2008 ZSC Lions
2008–2012 Northeastern University
2012-2013 Brampton Thunder
2013-2015 EHC Bülach (men)
2015-2018 Linköpings HC

Florence Isabelle Schelling (born March 9, 1989 in Zurich ) is a former Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper and current official who has been sports director at SC Bern since April 2020 . From 2006 to 2018 she was the goalkeeper of the Swiss national women's team . Her brother Philippe was also a hockey player.

Career

Schelling in the goal of the Swiss national team

Schelling grew up in Oberengstringen and came to ice hockey through her two brothers. They needed a goalkeeper for their shooting exercises and put their four-year-old sister in the gate. This experience led Schelling to want to become an ice hockey goalkeeper. She began her career with the GCK Lions and played for their elite A-Juniors between 2003 and 2005. She also played in a friendly for the Lions National League B team, making her the first woman to ever step on the National League B ice. At the same time she was used in the women's ice hockey team of the ZSC Lions . In 2007 she was named Women of the Year 2006/07 by the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation .

During the 2008 World Cup , the coach of Boston Northeastern University became aware of Schelling and convinced her to study in Boston . Schelling then studied economics at Northeastern University and played at the same time for the Huskies , the university's ice hockey team.

In their first year of college, she completed 19 missions for the Huskies and pointed with 93.3% held shots and a Gegentorschnitt of 2.24 very good statistics, so it several awards in the Hockey East and got into the All- Rookie team of League was chosen. During the 2009/10 season, she was named Defensive Player of the Week for three consecutive weeks and Bauer Goaltender of the Month in October and November . She took part with the huskies in the first open-air game in the history of women's college ice hockey, which was played in Fenway Park as part of the 2010 NHL Winter Classic and was won by the University of New Hampshire .

At the end of the 2010/11 season, Schelling and the Huskies reached the Hockey East playoff final for the first time in their history.

In the 2012/13 season she played for Brampton Thunder in the Canadian Women's Hockey League . In 2013 she graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration . From June 2013 she worked for the IIHF as IT coordinator and assistant to the management. At the same time, she played for EHC Bülach in the first division and continued to develop there. After the 2014/15 season she decided to move to Sweden to Linköpings HC and to do her Master of Business Administration at the university there. A year later she extended her contract for a year. She ended her career in May 2018.

From November 2019 she appeared regularly as an ice hockey expert on SRF . In April 2020 it was announced that Florence Schelling was elected sports director of SC Bern . She succeeded Alex Chatelain and took office after Easter 2020. She stopped working as an expert at SRF after the announcement of her move to SCB.

International

Schelling was nominated for a junior national team for the first time at the age of 13 and has been a member of the national team without interruption ever since. From 2005 she was part of the Swiss national team for women . Since then she has taken part in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and three world championships as the goalkeeper . At the 2008 World Cup, she led her team into the game for the bronze medal. The game was lost, but the Swiss team achieved the best result in their history with fourth place. Schelling was the second best goalkeeper of the tournament according to statistics and was the only goalkeeper who was on the ice every minute of the game, including overtime and penalty shootouts.

In 2010 she took part in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver . At the 2012 World Cup , she surprisingly won the bronze medal with the national team. Two years later, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won the bronze medal with the national team and received several awards for her achievements - as Most Valuable Player and Best Goalkeeper - as well as elected to the All-Star Team of the tournament. Schelling played a total of 190 international games, she was a participant in four Olympic Winter Games and eleven World Cup tournaments.

various

On the occasion of the Spengler Cup 2014, Florence Schelling took part in the “Legends Game” between HC Davos and EHC Arosa together with Nina Waidacher and Livia Altmann .

At the beginning of February 2019, she had an accident while skiing and broke her neck.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2007 Swiss Ice Hockey: Woman of the Year
  • 2009 Hockey East All-Rookie Team
  • 2009 Bauer Goalkeeper of the Month for October
  • 2009 Bauer Goalkeeper of the Month for November
  • 2010 Hockey East Co-Player of the Year
  • 2010 Hockey East Goaltending Champion
  • 2010 Hockey East All-Star Team
  • 2014 Swiss Ice Hockey: Woman of the Year
  • 2016 Swedish runner-up with the Linköpings HC
  • 2016 Best catch quota of the SDHL

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp S. N U Min GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2008/09 Northeastern University Huskies Hockey East 19th 5 12 1 1124 42 2 2.24 93.30
2009/10 Northeastern University Huskies Hockey East 21st 11 5 4th 1270 29 4th 1.37 94.9
2010/11 Northeastern University Huskies Hockey East 28 13 9 6th 1662 4th 2.02 93.0
2011/12 Northeastern University Huskies Hockey East 30th 20th 6th 4th 1823 8th 1.42 95.0
2012/13 Brampton Thunder CWHL 14th 6th 6th 831: 05 35 3 2.53 90.1 2 0 2 118: 43 6th 0 3.03 90.2
2013/14 EHC Bülach 1st League 14th 2.19 3 3.03
2014/15 SC Reinach SWHL A 2 120: 00 5 2.50
2014/15 EHC Bülach 1st League 6th 1 4th 356: 13 19th 0 3.20
2015/16 Linköpings HC Rick series 21st 18th 3 1270: 00 35 4th 1.65 93.83 8th 5 3 477: 55 14th 2 1.76 94.33
2016/17 Linköpings HC SDHL 10 9 1 604: 11 11 2 1.09 96.32 5 3 2 297: 45 9 1 1.81 94.55
Hockey East overall 98 49 32 15th 18th 1.74 94.0

International

year team event result Sp S. N Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2004 Switzerland WM 8th place 3 1 2 166 5 1 1.80 95.45
2005 Switzerland WM Div. I. 1st place 1 1 0 60 2 0 2.00 85.70
2006 Switzerland Olympia 7th place 3 0 3 150 10 0 2.40 93.90
2007 Switzerland WM 5th place 4th 2 2 231 13 1 3.38 91.16
2008 Switzerland WM 4th Place 5 3 2 305 15th 1 2.95 91.89
2009 Switzerland WM 7th place 3 0 2 153 12 0 4.70 85.00
2010 Switzerland Olympia 5th place 5 3 2 302 16 1 3.18 90.91
2011 Switzerland WM 6th place 5 289 16 0 3.32 92.56
2012 Switzerland WM 3rd place, bronze 5 288 16 0 3.33 93.19
2013 Switzerland WM 6th place 4th 238 13 0 3.28 91.8
2014 Switzerland Olympia 3rd place, bronze 6th 2 4th 363 24 1 3.97 91.3
2015 Switzerland WM 6th place 4th 236 7th 1 1.78 94.1
2016 Switzerland WM 7th place 5 303 8th 1 1.58 93.2
2017 Switzerland Olympic qualification 1st place 3 3 0 180 3 0 1.00 94.1
2017 Switzerland WM 7th place 6th 4th 2 368 11 0 1.79 93.1
2018 Switzerland Olympia

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

Commons : Florence Schelling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Times , Northeastern Goalie Balances College and International Game
  2. ↑ rsteck.ch, Florence Schelling "Women of the Year 2006/07" , December 23, 2007
  3. ↑ gonu.com, Husky Profile: # 41 Florence Schelling
  4. ↑ hockeyfans.ch, Schelling: Via Boston to the top of the world
  5. ↑ hockeyfans.ch, Schelling loses Winter Classic
  6. ↑ hockeyfans.ch, Schelling: Season end with awards
  7. ↑ cwhl: Schelling Added to Roster Brampton - Markham Thunder. In: markham.thecwhl.com. October 25, 2012, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ IIHF , iceTimes, June 2013. News & Notes
  9. ↑ Marisa Kuny: Bülach: Florence Schelling moves to Sweden. In: Zürcher Unterländer . June 1, 2015, accessed July 14, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Florence Schelling stays in Sweden. In: hockeyfans.ch. April 19, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016 .
  11. ↑ a b c d e Successor to Chatelain - Florence Schelling becomes head of sport at SC Bern. In: SRF Swiss radio and television. April 8, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020 .
  12. ↑ The SCB commits a sports director. In: Tages Anzeiger . April 8, 2020 ( tagesanzeiger.ch ).
  13. ↑ WW Day 6: Swiss delight. In: iihf.com. April 10, 2008, accessed September 11, 2017 .
  14. ↑ iihf.com, Three honors for Schelling (English)
  15. ↑ Legends game: HC Davos- EHC Arosa. In: www.blick.ch. December 30, 2014, accessed April 5, 2015 .
  16. ^ Aroser newspaper . January 9, 2015, p. 25.
  17. ↑ Archive: Woman of the year. (No longer available online.) In: sihf.ch. September 16, 2015, archived from the original on January 30, 2018 ; accessed on January 30, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sihf.ch
personal data
SURNAME Schelling, Florence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelling, Florence Isabelle (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper and official
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland