| Birth Date: | 3 January 2003 |
| Birth Place: | Ulvila, Finland |
| Height Cm: | 169 |
| Position: | Wing |
| Shoots: | Left |
| League: | NCAA |
| Team: | St. Cloud State Huskies |
| Former Teams: | Team Kuortane |
| Sex: | f |
| Ntl Team: | FIN |
| Career Start: | 2018 |
Sofianna Sundelin (born 13 January 2003) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team, currently playing with the St. Cloud State Huskies women's ice hockey program in the NCAA Division I.
Sundelin began playing ice hockey with the minor ice hockey department of HC Ässät in Pori, the western neighbor of her hometown of Ulvila, near the Bothnian Bay in southwestern Finland.[1] [2] During her youth career, she also played with girls' teams of Panelian Raikas (PaRa) in Eura.
Sundelin played five seasons with Team Kuortane (2018–2023) in the Naisten Liiga (NSML; renamed in 2024), the premier national women's ice hockey league in Finland. She ended her career with Team Kuortane second on the lists of all-time points and goals scored for the team.[3]
Sundelin joined the St. Cloud State Huskies women's ice hockey program as an incoming freshman for the 2023–24 season. She made an immediate impression, notching two assists across the season opener two-game series against the Union Garnet Chargers. Her point total led all rookies in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference and resulted in her being named the first WCHA Rookie of the Week of the 2023–24 season.[4]
As a junior ice hockey player with the Finnish national under-18 team, Sundelin participated in the IIHF U18 Women's World Championships in 2019 and 2020, winning a bronze medal at the 2019 tournament.
She made her senior national team debut at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship, contributing an assist to Finland's bronze medal performance, and went on to win a bronze medal while representing Finland in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[5] [6]
Her first goal at a major international event was scored against in the preliminary round of the 2022 IIHF Women's World Championship and was assisted by Kiira Yrjänen.[7]
Sundelin attended secondary school at Kuortaneen urheilulukio ('Kuortane Lukio and Sports Academy') in Kuortane, Finland.
Her intended major at St. Cloud State University is exercise science.[8]
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||||||
| 2018-19 | Team Kuortane | NSML | 26 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2019-20 | Team Kuortane | NSML | 25 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2020-21 | Team Kuortane | NSML | 23 | 17 | 18 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2021-22 | Team Kuortane | NSML | 22 | 16 | 13 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Team Kuortane | NSML | 14 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||
| WCHA | 36 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Naisten Liiga totals | 110 | 57 | 60 | 117 | 26 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 2 | ||||
| Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Finland | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Finland | WC18 | 4th | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2022 | Finland | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Finland | WC | 6th | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Finland | WC | 5th | 7 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | ||
| Finland | WC | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Junior totals | 12 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Senior totals | 35 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Award | Period | |
|---|---|---|
| International | ||
| World U18 Bronze Medal | 2019 | |
| World Championship Bronze Medal | 2021 | |
| Olympic Bronze Medal | 2022 | |
| Collegiate | ||
| WCHA Rookie of the Week | Week of 26 September 2023[9] | |
| Naisten Liiga | ||
| All-Star Second Team | 2022–23 | |