Vilma Vaattovaara
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| Vilma Vaattovaara | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
10 March 1993 Kirkkonummi, Finland[1] | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10 st 10 lb) | ||
| Position | Goaltender | ||
| Caught | Left | ||
| Played for |
London Dragons C Tampereen Ilves New Hampshire Wildcats HPK Hämeenlinna | ||
| Current NIHL coach | Streatham Black Hawks | ||
| National team |
 Finland | ||
| Playing career | 2008–2019 | ||
| Coaching career | 2021–present | ||
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Medal record | |||
Vilma Vaattovaara (born 10 March 1993) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and retired goaltender. She serves as goaltending coach with the Streatham Youth Ice Hockey Club, the youth affiliate of Streatham IHC. Her coaching oversight includes the Streatham Black Hawks in Division II of the National Ice Hockey League (NIHL) in addition to the club's minor and junior teams.
As a member of the Finnish national team, she won a bronze medal at the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship.[2]
Vaattovaara played college ice hockey with the New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey program in the Hockey East (HEA) conference of the NCAA Division I during 2012 to 2016, and with the London Dragons C of the British Universities Ice Hockey Association (BUIHA) in 2018–19.[1][3]
In her native Finland, she played in the Naisten Liiga with the Tampereen Ilves Naiset and HPK Kiekkonaiset, with whom she won the Aurora Borealis Cup in 2011; she recorded the league's best goals against average and save percentage in the 2010–11, 2011–12, and 2017–18 seasons.[4]