Eom Su-yeon (Korean: 엄수연; born 1 February 2001) is a South Korean ice hockey player and member of the South Korean national team, currently[update] playing with the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of NCAA Division I.
She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics[1] as part of a unified team of 35 players drawn from both North and South Korea. The team's coach was Sarah Murray and the team was in Group B competing against Switzerland, Japan and Sweden.[2]
In 2019, she was a member of the inaugural South Korean Women's U18 team that participated in the 2019 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in the Group 1B Qualification Tournament.[3] The South Korean team went undefeated and Eom was named Best Defenceman of the tournament. [4]
Eom began her college ice hockey career with the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program in the 2021–22 season.[5] After making a midseason switch from playing defence to forward, she scored her first collegiate goal on 4 February 2022 in a 3–0 victory against Princeton University. [6] [7]
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