Riitta Arnold-Schäublin

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland FinlandFinland  Riitta Arnold-Schäublin Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 7, 1982
place of birth Basel , Switzerland
Size 182 cm
Weight 75 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Career stations
2000-2001 SC Reinach
2001-2003 EHC Zunzgen-Sissach
2003-2007 University of Minnesota-Duluth
2007-2008 JYP Hockey Cats

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Riitta Arnold-Schäublin , b. Schäublin , (born September 7, 1982 in Basel ) is a former Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper . She played in 2001-2003 at EHC Zunzgen-Sissach as the first woman in the Swiss men's first division (at that time the third highest division) and shared the place as the goalkeeper. She later played under Shannon Miller at the University of Minnesota Bulldogs in the WCHA and NCAA (2003-07) and was the first Swiss ice hockey player to achieve All-American Honors in the NCAA. She was the first non-North American Patty Kazmaier Top 3 finalist (2006). Today she is active as a local politician in the canton of Zug .

Career

Riitta Schäublin played in her youth as a goalkeeper in the boys' championship in the youth department of the EHC Olten . At the same time, she also competed in the women's championship. She became Swiss women's champion with SC Reinach in 2001 and was promoted to the A group with the women's national team in the same year .

In the 2001/02 season she played at the age of 19 at EHC Zunzgen-Sissach in the Swiss men's first division as a goalkeeper together with Simon Roth. For this purpose, your club had to change the rules at the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation . In 2001 Schäublin became the first woman to ever play in the first division . In the 2002/03 season she had to sit out mostly due to various fractures. She is one of the few women who gained a foothold in men's ice hockey.

In the years 2003-2007 she played for the University of Minnesota-Duluth in the then top division of women in the United States and reached the NCAA runner-up in the 2006/07 season. In the 2006/07 season she was the captain of her team. She was the first non-North American top-3 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, the award for Ice Hockey Player of the Year and the highest individual award in North American college women's ice hockey. She is All-American (2006) and was inducted into the WCHA First All Star Team as a goalkeeper in 2005 and 2006 . In 2006 and 2007, Riitta Schäublin was named Outstanding Student Athlete of the Year by the Western Collegiate Hockey Association .

Schäublin let her career end in the Finnish Naisten SM-sarja with the JYP Hockey Cats .

International

From 2001 to 2004 she played in the Swiss national ice hockey team for women . In 2007, she played preparatory camps with the Finnish national ice hockey team. She had to end her career before the end of the 2007-08 season for health reasons.

Personal

Schaublin has five brothers. Her mother is from Finland . She studied at the University of Basel, in the United States at the University of Minnesota Duluth and in Finland at Jyväskylän yliopisto

Mathematics. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Masters of Science degree in 2008. Today she works as a pension actuary and is involved as a local politician for the Green Liberal Party .

successes

  • 2007 runner-up NCAA (USA)
  • 2007 WCHA Student Athlete of the Year
  • 2006 Nominated for the Patty Kazmaier Award , Top 3 Finalist
  • 2006 All-American First Team
  • 2006 All-WCHA First Team
  • 2006 WCHA Student Athlete of the Year
  • 2005 All-WCHA First Team
  • 2001 - 2003 first woman in the Swiss 1st division (men)
  • 2001 Swiss champion with SC Reinach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürg Gohl: Courageous against the grumbling of men . In: Basler Zeitung . October 19, 2001, p. 53.
  2. ↑ a b SCHAUBLIN NAMED FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERICAN. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 2005-2006 All-Americans - American Hockey Coaches Association. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b RIITTA SCHAUBLIN NAMED 2006 PATTY KAZMAIER TOP-3 FINALIST. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Andreas Ineichen: A witch from Basel on the NLA test stand . No. 48 . Zug December 2, 2001, p. 32 .
  6. ↑ a b Reto Pfister: “Now I'm biting my way through men's hockey” . In: Berner Zeitung . April 20, 2001.
  7. ↑ Tanja Winkler: These women also show the men . In: SonntagsBlick . No. 46 , November 17, 2013, p. 22 .
  8. ↑ Kai Müller, Bülach: The woman in the male gate . In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 10, 2013, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on February 6, 2019]).
  9. ↑ All-Time Alumnae. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 2007 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament . In: Wikipedia . April 8, 2019 ( wikipedia.org [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  11. ↑ a b UMD \ 'S SCHAUBLIN AT THE HEAD OF HER CLASS. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Riitta Schäublin honored . In: Basler Zeitung . March 10, 2006, p. 39 .
  13. ↑ a b BULLDOGS WRAP UP SEVENTH SEASON OF DIVISION I WOMEN \ 'S HOCKEY. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  14. ^ All-Americans. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  15. ↑ CAROLINE OUELLETTE EARNS WCHA STUDENT-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR AWARD. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b Riitta Schaublin Named WCHA Student-Athlete Of The Year. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  17. ↑ a b FIVE BULLDOG PLAYERS GARNER ALL-WCHA HONORS. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  18. ^ Swiss national women's ice hockey team. (PDF) Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Walter Ryser: Riitaa Schäublin steals the show from the ice hockey men . In: Solothurner Zeitung . October 31, 2001, p. 37 .
  20. ↑ SCHAUBLIN NAMED TO THE 2006-07 COSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA SECOND TEAM. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  21. ^ Team - Riitta Arnold-Schäublin. In: ppcmetrics.ch. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Arnold-Schäublin, Riitta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäublin, Riitta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish-Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel