Monika Waidacher

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Monika Waidacher Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 9, 1990
place of birth Chur , Switzerland
Size 173 cm
Weight 63 kg
position striker
number # 15
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2008 EHC Arosa
2008-2010 ZSC Lions
2010-2014 College of St. Scholastica (CSS)
since 2014 ZSC Lions

Monika Waidacher (born July 9, 1990 in Chur ) is a Swiss ice hockey player from Arosa who has been playing for the Lady Lions of the ZSC Lions since 2014 .

life and career

Monika Waidacher is the oldest of eight children in a family closely related to ice hockey. Her grandfather Ludwig Waidacher senior played as a defender for EHC Arosa in the 1940s and 1950s , with whom he became Swiss champions five times in a row . Her father Ludwig Waidacher junior also won a championship title with EHC Arosa in 1980, before he switched to Zürcher SC for the 1981/82 season to study .

Like her seven younger siblings, Monika Waidacher not only plays ice hockey, she is also a talented skier . So she first competed in ski races before expressing the wish to bet on ice hockey. It was a novelty in Arosa that a girl wanted to play hockey seriously. Since the EHC Arosa did not have a women's team, she simply played with her male school colleagues. Because she made rapid progress in this environment, she was soon appointed to a Swiss junior national team. This success also had an impact on her siblings - and especially the two sisters - who were now also successfully playing ice hockey. In 2008 she played with her sister Nina at the U18 World Junior Championship in Calgary . In the same year she was awarded the Graubünden Ice Hockey Prize.

After compulsory schooling completed Waidacher an apprenticeship in Arosa and made in Chur , the vocational diploma . In order to make further progress in sport, she subsequently played for the women's team of the ZSC Lions . She has been a member of the Swiss national women's team since 2009 and was selected for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where she was not used as a substitute player and returned home early. From 2010 to 2014 Monika Waidacher played for the Team College of St. Scholastica (CSS) in Duluth , where she was appointed to the All-Star Team of the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) in 2012 together with her sister Nina . In 2009 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016 and 2017 she represented Switzerland at the Women's Ice Hockey World Championship, where she came third in 2012. In both 2016 and 2017 she won the Swiss championship title with the ZSC Lions women , as well as the Swiss Women's Hockey Cup in Swiss women's ice hockey in 2016, 2018 and 2019.

Varia

The four years younger sister Isabel also played for the College of St. Scholastica in the 2013-14 season. The eldest brother Thomas Waidacher (* 1996) was part of the U-17 national team.

Monika Waidacher is one of the few ice hockey family members with her grandfather and father as well as the sisters Nina and Isabel who have achieved at least one national championship title in three successive generations.

Achievements and Awards

National

  • 2008 Graubünden ice hockey award
  • 2012 nomination for the election of the Grisons athlete of the year
  • 2012 Member of the Allstar Team of the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA)
  • 2016 Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions
  • 2017 Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions

International

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Waidacher ice hockey family, Monika Waidacher in the middle in a white dress ( memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.hockeycamp.cz
  2. Elmar Brunner: 70 years of EHC Arosa - A village makes Swiss sports history , self-published by F&L Planungen AG / Store Line AG, Chur 1994, p. 63 ff.
  3. List of EHC Arosa 1979/80 ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.ehcarosa.ch
  4. Migros Magazin 8 of February 22, 2010, p. 12 ff.
  5. Hockey Prize - 2008 - Monika Waidacher. In: gr.hockey. Retrieved March 14, 2018 .
  6. ^ Die Südostschweiz, April 17, 2012, p. 13.
  7. Aroser Zeitung of April 20, 2012, p. 12.
  8. ^ Election of Monika and Nina Waidacher to the NCHA Allstar Team
  9. Ambitious Arosa Trio
  10. ^ Ice hockey: Portrait of the Waidacher sisters. In: www.srf.ch. January 4, 2015, accessed February 15, 2015 .
  11. Die Südostschweiz, May 19, 2012, p. 12.
  12. Southeast Switzerland of July 26, 2012.
  13. The Super Sisters. In: www.tagesanzeiger.ch. February 27, 2017. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
  14. Die Südostschweiz, March 1, 2016, p. 23.
  15. ZSC women defend title - Nina Waidacher hits. In: www.suedostschweiz.ch. March 5, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .