Josephine Pucci

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United StatesUnited States  Josephine Pucci Ice hockey player
Date of birth December 27, 1990
place of birth Queens , New York , USA
size 173 cm
Weight 68 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2005-2009 Choate Rosemary Hall
Mid Fairfield Connecticut Stars
2009-2015 Harvard University

Josephine Ursula Pucci (born December 27, 1990 in Queens , New York ) is a former American ice hockey player . Pucci was a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team from 2011 to 2014 and won the world championship and silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics .

Career

Pucci attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut during her high school years between 2005 and 2009 . In addition to the school team, she also played for the Mid Fairfield Connecticut Stars . For the 2009/10 school year, the defender moved to Harvard University , where she initially pursued her studies for the next three years and at the same time played for the university's ice hockey team in ECAC Hockey , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

In the service of the Crimson , the defensive player was nominated for the first time for the women's national ice hockey team of the United States at the end of the 2010/11 season and took part with this in the 2011 World Cup. There she won the world title with the US team. Subsequently, Pucci represented her home country at the 4 Nations Cup 2011 , which the team also won, and the 2012 World Cup . She completed this by winning the silver medal. In August 2012, Pucci injured his head severely in a friendly against Canada after Brianne Jenner's elbow check . The aftermath of the second concussion within eight months eventually led Pucci to leave Harvard University and undergo intensive treatment. She only returned to the ice in February 2013, fully recovered. Pucci was signed by the US ice hockey association USA Hockey in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and intensively prepared for it throughout the 2013/14 season. Eventually she made the leap into the squad and won the Olympic silver medal with the Americans.

Following this success, the defender returned to Harvard University for the 2014/15 school year after a two-year absence and subsequently completed her studies. In addition, she reached the final of the national college championship, in which the Crimson of the University of Minnesota were defeated with the team, to which she only joined in December 2014 . She then ended her career and began working as a junior coach in the state of Connecticut for her old junior team Mid Fairfield Connecticut Stars in the summer of 2017 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2009/10 Harvard University ECAC 31 4th 8th 12 18th +16
2010/11 Harvard University ECAC 30th 12 13 25th 46 +24
2011/12 Harvard University ECAC 27 5 16 21st 32 +16
2012/13 without a club not played because of concussion
2013/14 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2014/15 Harvard University ECAC 26th 3 8th 11 4th +21
NCAA overall 124 24 45 69 100 +77

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2011 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 0 1 12 +9
2012 United States WM 2nd place, silver 5 3 3 6th 4th +8
2014 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 0 1 1 2 +3
Women overall 15th 4th 4th 8th 18th +20

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael D. Ledecky: Josephine Pucci: One Last Time. The Harvard Crimson, May 28, 2015, accessed March 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pucci, Josephine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pucci, Josephine Ursula (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens , New York