Theresa Knutson

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Theresa Knutson
Born (1996-04-01) April 1, 1996 (age 27)
Onalaska, Wisconsin, US
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
DFEL team
Former teams		 ECDC Memmingen
Playing career 2014–present

Theresa Marie 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.

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Playing career

Knutson attended Aquinas High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin and played varsity ice hockey with the Onalaska Hilltoppers Co-Op based at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, Wisconsin. During her high school ice hockey career in Wisconsin Prep Hockey (WiPH), she led the state in scoring for four consecutive seasons, 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 played college ice hockey with the UConn Huskies women's ice hockey program, scoring 79 points in 135 NCAA games. [4] She scored her first collegiate goal on 19 October 2014 against the Syracuse Orange. [5] [6]

After graduating, she moved to Germany to sign with Mad Dogs Mannheim in the Fraueneishockey-Bundesliga. [7] In her rookie Bundesliga season, she ranked third in the league for scoring, with 66 points in 28 games, including 48 goals. [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] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of games in the NWHL season was severely limited, prompting Knutson to return to Germany and play with the Eisbären Juniors Berlin in the DFEL after the Riveters season had ended. [11] [12] She re-signed with the Riveters for the 2021–22 PHF season. [13] [14] [15]

Knutson signed with ECDC Memmingen for the 2022–23 DFEL season, during which she led the league in regular season scoring, with 14 goals and 18 assists for 32 points in twenty games. [16] Her elite production helped propel the team to a bronze medal finish in the 2023 EWHL Super Cup and her playoff-leading 14 points contributed to ECDC Memmingen’s consecutive semifinal and final series sweeps, which ended in the 2023 German Championship victory. [17]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

   Regular season   Playoffs
Season TeamLeagueGP G A Pts PIM GPGAPtsPIM
2010-11Onalaska Co-Op WiPH 5425380
2011-12Onalaska Co-OpWiPH2461329385102126
2012-13Onalaska Co-OpWiPH2370149432577148
2013-14Onalaska Co-OpWiPH22691887265911202
2014-15 UConn Huskies NCAA 36951410–––––
2015-16 UConn HuskiesNCAA371992822–––––
2016-17 UConn HuskiesNCAA231091912–––––
2017-18 UConn HuskiesNCAA391351816–––––
2018-19 Mad Dogs Mannheim DFEL 284818662228082
2019-20Mad Dogs MannheimDFEL2115132830474112
2020-21 Metropolitan Riveters NWHL 31010–––––
2020-21 Eisbären Juniors Berlin DFEL85712022020
2021-22 Metropolitan Riveters PHF 196612610000
2022-23 ECDC Memmingen DFEL201418328695140
NCAA totals13551287960–––––
PHF totals227613610000
DFEL totals778256138608115160

Note: Postseason results from the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons are from the relegation round rather than the playoffs and are not calculated with playoff totals.

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