Valeria Merkusheva

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sergeyevna and the family name is Merkushev.

Valeria Sergeyevna Merkusheva (Russian: Валерия Сергеевна Меркушева, also romanized Valeriya Sergeevna; born 20 September 1999) is a Russian ice hockey goaltender and member of the Russian national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.

Valeria Merkusheva Валерия Меркушева
Born	(1999-09-20) 20 September 1999 (age 25) Moscow, Russia
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position	Goaltender
Catches	Left
ZhHL team Former teams	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod SKIF Nizhny Novgorod Dinamo St. Petersburg SKSO Yekaterinburg
National team	Russia
Playing career	2016–present
Medal record Universiade 2019 Krasnoyarsk Ice hockey

Merkusheva represented Russia at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship and in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2019 Winter Universiade. She played under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship and in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.^[1][2]