Shin So-jung
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| Born |
March 4, 1990 Seoul, South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 140 lb (64 kg; 10 st 0 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goaltender | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Caught | Left | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Played for |
New York Riveters St. Francis Xavier | |||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 South Korea and Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2010–2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 신소정 |
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| Revised Romanization | Sin Sojeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sin Sojŏng |
Shin So-jung (born March 4, 1990) is a former South Korean professional women's ice hockey goaltender, who played with the South Korea women's national ice hockey team and the Metropolitan Riveters of the NWHL. She was the first Korean to play professional women's hockey in North America.
Playing career[]
CIS[]
Shin played for three seasons with the St. Francis Xavier women's ice hockey program in Canadian Interuniversity Sport. During her seasons with the X-Women, she registered 37 wins, complemented by a 1.46 goals against average, and a save percentage of .944.
In her first season at St. Francis Xavier, she ranked first overall in Atlantic University Sport conference play with a 1.44 goals against average, while her .930 save percentage ranked second.[1]
During the 2014–15 season, Shin led all goaltenders in Canadian Interuniversity Sport play with an .875 winning percentage. In addition, she led all goaltenders in the Atlantic University Sport conference in both save percentage (.949) and goals against average (1.19).[2]
NWHL[]
On July 27, 2016, Shin signed as a free agent with the NWHL’s New York Riveters.[3] She would play 4 games for the Riveters, earning one shutout.
International[]
As a member of the South Korean national women's ice hockey team, Shin has participated in seven IIHF World Championships at the Division II and Division III levels. Over the course of the seven appearances, she has accumulated a goals against average of 1.33 plus a .954 save percentage. In addition, she has participated at two Asian Winter Games, two IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia tournaments, and the qualification round for Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
She was at the 2018 Winter Olympics[4] as part of a unified team of 35 players drawn from both North and South Korea. The team's coach was Sarah Murray and the team was in Group B competing against Switzerland, Japan and Sweden.[5][6]
In June 2018, she announced her retirement from hockey.[7]
Awards and honors[]
- Directorate Award, Best Goaltender: 2012 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B[8]
- Directorate Award, Best Goaltender: 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B[9]
- Directorate Award, Best Goaltender: 2014 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group A[10]
- 2015 Atlantic University Sport First-Team All-Star[11]
- St. Francis Xavier women's ice hockey Most Valuable Player (2015)
References[]
- ^ "South Korean goalie Sojung Shin honing her skills at St. Francis Xavier". thechronicleherald.ca. 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
- ^ "Shin competing at IIHF World Hockey Championship". St. Francis Xavier Athletics. 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-08-10. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ "Shin signs with Riveters". NWHL.zone. 2016-07-27. Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
- ^ "Athlete Profile: CHOI Yujung - Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games". www.pyeongchang2018.com.
- ^ "Unified Korean Team - Olympic - International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF". pyeongchang2018.iihf.hockey. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^ Reuters
- ^ "South Korean netminder Sojung Shin says goodbye to hockey, but perhaps not winter sports". 16 September 2018.
- ^ "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Div II Group B, Best Players Selected By The Directorate" (PDF). IIHF. n.d. Retrieved 2016-08-10.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Div II Group B, Best Players Selected By The Directorate" (PDF). IIHF. n.d. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-12-31. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
- ^ "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Div II Group A, Best Players Selected By The Directorate" (PDF). IIHF. n.d. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 7, 2020. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
- ^ "2014–15 AUS Women's Hockey Awards and All-Stars Announced". Atlantic University Sport. 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
External links[]
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
- Ice hockey players at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
- Ice hockey players at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
- New York Riveters players
- St. Francis Xavier University alumni
- South Korean women's ice hockey goaltenders
- Ice hockey people from Seoul
- Winter Olympics competitors for Korea
- Asian ice hockey biography stubs
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