Theresa Knutson (born April 1, 1996) is an American ice hockey forward, currently playing in the German Women's Ice Hockey League (DFEL) with ECDC Memmingen.
| Theresa Knutson | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
(1996-04-01) April 1, 1996 (age 26) Onalaska, Wisconsin, US | ||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| DFEL team Former teams |
ECDC Memmingen Metropolitan Riveters Mad Dogs Mannheim Connecticut Huskies | ||
| Playing career | 2014–present | ||
She attended Aquinas High School but played varsity hockey for Onalaska High School, where she led the state in scoring four years in a row, was named Wisconsin High School Offensive Player of the Year three times, and won the Wisconsin Miss Hockey Award in 2014.[1][2][3]
From 2014 to 2018, she attended the University of Connecticut, scoring 79 points in 135 NCAA games.[4] She scored her first career collegiate goal on the 19th of October 2014 against Syracuse University.[5][6]
After graduating, she moved to Germany to sign with Mad Dogs Mannheim in the Fraueneishockey-Bundesliga.[7] She scored 66 points in 28 games in her rookie Bundesliga season, including 48 goals, good for 3rd in the league in points.[8][9]
She returned to North America for the 2020–21 season, signing with the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; renamed PHF in 2021).[10] She re-signed with the Riveters through the 2021–22 season.
| Regular Season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2018-19 | Mad Dogs Mannheim | DFEL | 28 | 48 | 18 | 66 | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2019-20 | Mad Dogs Mannheim | DFEL | 21 | 15 | 13 | 28 | 30 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| DFEL totals | 49 | 63 | 31 | 94 | 52 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||