Emma Terho

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Emma Terho
Emma Laaksonen.jpg
Terho with the Finnish national team in 2009.
Personal information
Birth nameEmma Kristiina Laaksonen
Born (1981-12-17) 17 December 1981 (age 40)
Washington, D.C., United States
Home townEspoo, Uusimaa, Finland
EducationMSc in Economics, Aalto University 2013
BBA in Finance, Ohio State University 2004
Occupation
Ice hockey career
Height 159 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb)
Position Defense
Played for Ohio State Buckeyes
SKIF Nizhny Novgorod
Espoo Blues
National team  Finland
Playing career 1997–2017
Medal record
Women's ice hockey
Representing  Finland
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Vancouver Team
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Nagano Team
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Finland
Bronze medal – third place 2008 China
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Canada
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Canada

Emma Kristiina Terho, née Laaksonen, (born 17 December 1981) is a Finnish retired ice hockey defenseman and the current Chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission.[1] She is the general manager of Kiekko-Espoo in the Naisten Liiga.[2] At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano she became the youngest Winter Olympian to medal for Finland at the age of 16 years 54 days.[3][4]

Playing career[]

The Ohio State University[]

Laaksonen played with the Buckeyes women's ice hockey team while attending The Ohio State University (OSU) during 2000 to 2004. In the 2001–02 season she was the first women's ice hockey player from Ohio State to earn All-American honors when she was named to the 2001–02 Jofa/American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) Second Team All-American[5] and was a top-10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award.[6] On 11 October 2008, Laaksonen Terho became the first women's hockey player to have her Buckeye number retired.[7] The retirement ceremony occurred prior to an Ohio State vs. Purdue University football game at Ohio Stadium, where Laaksonen Terho was recognized on the field at the 50-yard line. She was inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame on 25 September 2009.[8][9]

Espoo Blues, 2004–2007[]

In Finland she played with the Espoo Blues, where she won the Finnish Championship eight times (1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014 and 2015). With Espoo Blues she has finished third three times (1997, 1998 and 2006).[10]

SKIF Nizhny Novgorod[]

In the 2007–08 season Terho played in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia with SKIF of the Russian Women's Hockey League (RWHL). Three other Finnish players, forwards Kati Kovalainen, Karoliina Rantamäki, and Nora Tallus, also played for SKIF in that season. The team won the 2008 Russian Women's Hockey League Championship.[11]

Espoo, 2008–2017[]

Terho returned to the Espoo Blues after the 2007-08 season in Russia. The 2008-09 season was very successful, both personally and for the team. Terho set a career high for assists with 32 and ended the regular season with an impressive 34 points in just 19 games.[12]

International play[]

Laaksonen is a five-time Olympian, serving as co-captain or captain in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 as well as competing in seven world championships, serving as captain in 2008 and 2009.

She played on the women's ice hockey team for Finland at the 1998 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal.[13] She was the youngest woman on the team (16 years, 54 days).

Sports administration[]

Early in her career Terho became involved in the administrative aspect of sport, as a member of the Student Athlete Board during her junior and senior years at The Ohio State University (2002–2004). In 2006, after graduating and returning to Finland to play in the Naisten SM-sarja, Terho became a member of the Finnish Olympic Committee. In 2011 as part of the IIHF Ambassador and Mentor Program (AMP) she became an Athlete Ambassador to Kazakhstan with the directive to use her experience at Olympic Games, World Championships, and other high level women's hockey programs to help build the women's game in her designated country.[14] As her playing career wound down, Terho ramped up her involvement in Finnish sports administration and she has become an influential and important player in that sphere.[15]

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Terho was elected for an eight-year term as a member of the IOC Athletes' Commission, with the largest share of votes of all candidates put forward. The election also made her an International Olympic Committee Member. On 6 August 2021, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Terho was elected as the new Chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission. She replaced outgoing Chair Kirsty Coventry, who had served as Chair since 2018 and had remained in role for an additional year beyond her eight-year term to help maintain the IOC Athletes’ Commission's work during the COVID-19 pandemic, following the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games.[16]

Current administrative titles and roles[]

  • Member of the Board, Finnish Ice Hockey Association, 2014–present
  • Member of the Finnish Advisory Board of Sport Ethics, 2015–present
  • Chair of Finnish Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission, 2016–2020; member, 2006–2016
  • Member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's Committee, 2016–present
  • Member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), 2018–present[17]
    • Chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission, 2021–present;[16] member, 2018–2021[18]
    • Member of the Coordination Commission for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games (Beijing 2022), 2018–present
    • Member of the Olympic Programme Commission, 2018–present
    • Member of the Marketing Commission, 2020–present
    • Member of the Legal Affairs Commission[19]

Personal life[]

Emma Terho holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from The Ohio State University (2004) and a Masters of Science in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics at Aalto University (2013). She began her career in finance while still an active hockey player, serving as a fixed income trader for Pohjola Bank from 2006 to 2013. Terho has served as a product manager for fixed income products at OP-Pohjola Financial Group since 2014.

Her husband, Teemu Terho, also works in banking. They have two children, a son, born in 2012, and a daughter, born in 2014.

Career statistics[]

Regular season and playoffs[]

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1996-97 Kiekko-Espoo Naisten SM-sarja 24 3 5 8 8 4 0 2 2 2
1997-98 Kiekko-Espoo Naisten SM-sarja 23 3 3 6 4 4 0 0 0 4
1998-99 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 23 2 6 8 8 6 1 0 1 4
1999-00 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 25 7 7 14 4 6 1 3 4 4
2000-01 Ohio State Buckeyes NCAA 34 19 18 37 10 — — — — —
2001-02 Ohio State Buckeyes NCAA 25 6 15 21 10 — — — — —
2002-03 Ohio State Buckeyes NCAA 31 6 15 21 14 — — — — —
2003-04 Ohio State Buckeyes NCAA 35 3 16 19 12 — — — — —
2004-05 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 19 6 11 17 8 5 0 2 2 0
2005-06 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 22 4 10 14 16 5 3 1 4 4
2006-07 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 17 3 11 14 10 7 0 6 6 2
2007-08 SKIF Nizhny Novgorod RWHL
2008-09 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 19 2 32 34 6 6 3 3 6 6
2009-10 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 18 8 11 19 12 12 2 9 11 12
2010-11 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 25 9 29 38 16 4 1 3 4 6
2011-12 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja — — — — — 2 0 0 0 0
2012-13 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 21 2 22 24 10 9 2 5 7 4
2013-14 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 22 5 22 27 6 3 0 4 4 0
2014-15 Espoo Blues Naisten SM-sarja 2 0 2 2 0 — — — — —
2015-16 did not play — —
2016-17 Espoo United Naisten SM-sarja 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 2 2 4
2018-19 Espoo Blues Naisten Liiga 1 0 1 1 0 — — — — —
NCAA totals 125 34 64 98 46 — – – – –
Naisten SM-sarja totals 261 54 172 226 108 78 13 40 53 52

Club tournaments[]

Year Team Event Rank GP G A Pts PIM
2004 Espoo Blues EWCC 4th 3 0 2 2 0
2005 Espoo Blues EWCC 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 1 1 2 2
2009 Espoo Blues EWCC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 0 2 2 6
2010 Espoo Blues EWCC 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 2 2 4 2
2014 Espoo Blues EWCC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 3 2 5 12
2015 Espoo Blues EWCC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 0 1 1 2
Totals 21 6 10 16 24

International[]

Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM
1998 Finland Oly 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 0 0 0 2
2000 Finland WW 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 0 0 0 2
2001 Finland WC 4th 5 0 1 1 4
2002 Finland Oly 4th 5 1 1 2 2
2004 Finland WC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 0 1 1 2
2005 Finland WC 4th 5 0 1 1 2
2006 Finland Oly 4th 5 1 0 1 8
2007 Finland WC 4th 5 0 0 0 10
2008 Finland WC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 1 3 4 0
2009 Finland WC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 0 2 2 4
2010 Finland Oly 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 0 0 0 2
2013 Finland WC 4th 6 0 0 0 4
2014 Finland Oly 5th 6 0 0 0 12
Totals 66 3 9 12 54

Sources:[20][21][22][23][24]

Awards and honours[]

Award Year or Season ref
International
Olympic Bronze Medal 1998, 2010
World Championship Bronze Medal 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009
World Championship Best Defenceman 2000
European Champions Cup Best Defenceman 2005, 2010
World Championship All-Star Team 2008
Finland
Aurora Borealis Cup Champion 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2012–13, 2013–14
Päivi Halonen Award 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
Naisten SM-sarja All-Star Team 2008–09, 2010–11
Aurora Borealis Cup Silver Medal 2016–17
Suomen Jääkiekkoleijona #255
Inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame Finland 		2019
NCAA
WCHA Rookie of the Week Week of 6 March 2001 [25]
NCAA Power-Play Goals Champion 2001 [26]
OSU Scholar Athlete 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 [27]
WCHA Defensive Player of the Week 2001–02
  • Week of 20 November
  • Week of 11 December

2002–03

  • Week of 9 December
 [28][29][30]
Patty Kazmaier Award Top-10 Finalist 2001–02 [31]
JOFA/AHCA All-America Second Team 2001–02 [31]
WCHA All-Conference Second Team 2001–02 [31]
WCHA All-Star 2001–02 [27]
WCHA All-Academic Team 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04 [31]
CoSIDA/ESPN At-Large Academic All-District IV Team 2002–03, 2003–04 [27]
AWHCA Scholar All-American 2002–03, 2003–04 [27]
WCHA Student-Athlete of the Year 2003–04 [31]
WCHA Postgraduate Scholarship 2005 [31]
Number retired by Ohio State Buckeyes 2008
Inducted to the Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame 2009 [27]

Sources:[32][33][34]

Records[]

NCAA[]

Records valid through 2020–21 NCAA season.[26]

Season

  • 2nd most power-play goals (17), 2000–01 season

Single-game

WCHA[]

Records stand through the 2019–20 WCHA season.[31]

Career

Season

  • Most power play goals (17), 2000–01 season
  • 3rd most goals by a defenceman (19), 2000–01 season
  • 10th most power play points (29), 2000–01 season – tied with Jenny Schmidgall-Potter (2002–03) and Jocelyne Lamoureux (2011–12, 2012–13)

Single-game

Ohio State Buckeyes[]

Records valid through 2019–20 Ohio State Buckeyes season.[27]

Career

  • 3rd most power-play goals (23) – tied with Erin Keys
  • 3rd most points by a defenseman (99) – tied with Jincy Dunne
  • 4th most power-play points (59) – tied with Laura McIntosh
  • 10th most assists (65)

Season

  • Most power-play goals (17), 2000–01
  • Most power-play points (29), 2000–01
  • 3rd most points by a defenseman (38), 2000–01 – tied with Amber Bowman (2006–07)

Single-game

  • Most power play goals (3), Ohio State vs. Wayne State on 2 March 2001

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