Iveta Koka
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| Iveta Koka | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 9 March 1982 | ||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb) | ||
| Position | Left wing | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| Damettan team Former teams |
Haninge Anchors HC AIK Hockey Leksands IF HC Tornado | ||
| National team |
 Latvia | ||
| Playing career | 1995–present | ||
Iveta Koka (born 9 March 1982) is a Latvian ice hockey forward, currently playing in the Swedish Damettan with the women's representative team of Haninge Anchors HC. She began playing with the Latvian national team in 1995 and holds the title for most career points in team history. During her nine-season career in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL), she scored over 240 points and is the all-time leading scorer from Latvia.
Early in her career, Koka played in the Russian Women's Hockey League with HC Tornado and in the Swiss Leistungsklasse A with the Ladies Team Lugano.[1] From 2012 to 2018, she played for Leksands IF Dam in the Riksserien (renamed SDHL in 2016), putting up over a point per game with 179 points (81 goals + 98 assists) in 176 games for the club.[2] As of 2021[update], she stands as the third highest scorer in Leksands history.
After leaving Leksands, she joined AIK Hockey Dam in Stockholm for the 2018–19 SDHL season. After scoring only 6 points in 19 games in the 2019–20 SDHL season, she signed an extension with the club and posted 4 points in her first 7 games of the 2020–21 season.[3]