Neuberg Highlanders

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Neuberg Highlanders
Greatest successes
Club information
history EHV Neuberg (since 2000)
Location Neuberg an der Mürz
Parent club EHV Neuberg
Club colors Yellow blue
league DEBL
Venue Kapfenberg sports center
capacity 4,500 seats (including 250 seats)
executive Director Margret Kraischek
Head coach Oliver Zirngast, Julian Stühlinger
captain Evelyn Hochegger
2019/20 DEBL master

The Neuberg Highlanders are an Austrian ice hockey team from Neuberg an der Mürz , Styria , that plays in the women's ice hockey Bundesliga .

history

The EHV Neuberg was founded in 2000 under Franz Rojak, the first trainer of the Highlanders, and initially operated a men's team and youth work. In 2003, a women's ice hockey department was established. From 2003 this took part in the II. Division of the women's ice hockey league and reached the last position in 2004 and third in the table in 2005. The club then rose to the Bundesliga (DEBL) for the 2005/06 season and came third in 2007. From 2005 Otto Gracner was the trainer of the women's team.

Also in the 2007/08 season the Highlanders reached the play-offs , but lost the decisive game for third place against the Gipsy Girls Villach . In 2008 the men's team of the club was dissolved, so that the EHV Neuberg became a pure women's ice hockey club. During the 2008/09 season Inguna Lukašēvica took over the training as a player- coach . She left the club in May 2010 and was replaced by Werner Kerth . At the end of the 2010/11 season , the Highlanders were eleven points ahead of the runner-up champions in the DEBL.

In the following season, the second team was also able to achieve their first successes when they won the championship of the 2nd Bundesliga (DEBL 2). In addition, the first team won the DEBL again and failed in the series for third place in the state championship at the DEC Salzburg Eagles . The Highlanders achieved this success - with an average age of 15.5 for the first and 13.5 years for the second team - with the youngest Bundesliga teams in the history of Austrian women's ice hockey. Some of the Highlanders players were also among the participants in the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games .

successes

  • 2005 3rd place in the 2nd division
  • 2007 3rd place in DEBL
  • 2009 runner-up at DEBL; 1st place national league
  • 2010 3rd place at the Austrian state championship
  • 2011 DEBL Champion (1st team)
  • 2012 DEBL Champion (1st team)
  • 2012 Champion of DEBL 2 (2nd team)
  • 2014 2nd place EWHL
  • 2015-2018 3rd place in the Austrian state championship
  • 2020 DEBL champions (1st team)

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