Sara Hjalmarsson

Sara Hjalmarsson (born 8 February 1998) is a Swedish ice hockey player, a member of the Swedish national team, and captain of Linköping HC in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL).

Sara Hjalmarsson
Born	(1998-02-08) 8 February 1998 (age 27) Bankeryd, Sweden
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb)
Position	Centre
Shoots	Left
SDHL team Former teams	Linköping HC Providence Friars HV71 AIK Hockey
National team	Sweden
Playing career	2012–present

Hjalmarsson represented Sweden in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2017, 2019, and 2022.^[1]

Playing career

Hjalmarssom hails from Bankeryd, Sweden and attended Solna Gymnasium for secondary school. She played with HV71 during 2012 to 2014 and with AIK Hockey during 2014 to 2018.

NCAA

Her college ice hockey career spanned five seasons with the Providence Friars women's ice hockey program in the Hockey East (WHEA) conference of the NCAA Division I.^[2] 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 tied 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 the 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]