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Sara Hjalmarsson (born 9 February 1998) is a Swedish ice hockey player and member of the Swedish national team, currently playing with the Providence Friars women's ice hockey program in the Hockey East (WHEA) conference of the NCAA Division I.[1]

Sara Hjalmarsson
Born	(1998-02-08) 8 February 1998 (age 24) Bankeryd, Sweden
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb)
Position	Forward
Shoots	Left
NCAA team Former teams	Providence Friars HV71 AIK Hockey
National team	Sweden
Playing career	2012–present

She represented Sweden in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2017 and 2019.[2]

Playing career

Hjalmarssom hails from Bankeryd, Sweden and attended Solna Gymnasium for secondary school. She played with HV71 Dam during 2012 to 2014 and in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL; called Riksserien until 2016) with AIK Hockey Dam during 2014 to 2018.

NCAA

As a forward with the Friars, she scored 17 goals, and 11 assists in the 2019–20 season, to lead the team in goals scored and tie for points. She was named the Hockey East Player of the Week on 2 December 2019, for having scored six points in the Friar's Mayor's Cup game against Brown Bears, the most points in a game by any NCAA player to that point in the season.[3]

Awards and honors

• 2020–21 Hockey East Second Team All-Star[4]

References

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
• Sara Hjalmarsson at Olympedia

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