Rahel Enzler

Rahel Enzler
Born (2000-07-30) 30 July 2000 (age 24)
Walchwil, Switzerland
Height 163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
SWHL A team
Former teams		 EV Zug
National team   Switzerland
Playing career 2016–present

Rahel Enzler (born 30 July 2000) is a Swiss ice hockey player and member of the Swiss national team. She is signed in the Swiss Women's League (SWHL A) with the EVZ Women's Team of EV Zug through the 2025–26 season.

Playing career

Enzler developed in the youth system of EHC Seewen, a minor and junior ice hockey club in Seewen, Schwyz, less than 20 km (12 mi) northwest of her hometown of Walchwil, Zug.[1] She played five games with the ZSC Lions Frauen, the women's representative team of the ZSC Lions, during the 2015–16 SWHL A season in addition to playing with the Seewen under-15 and under-17 teams in the Mini A and Top Novizen respectively.

Enzler joined SC Reinach Damen, the women's representative team of SC Reinach, in 2017. She served as Reinach's captain during the 2019–20 season of the Women's League (SWHL A; renamed from Swiss Women's Hockey League A in 2019).[2]

Her college ice hockey career was played with the Maine Black Bears women's ice hockey program in the Hockey East (HEA) conference of the NCAA Division I.[3] She first joined the program as an incoming freshman in the 2020–21 season.[4][5]

International

Enzler represented Switzerland in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2017, 2019 and 2021.[6][7] At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she skated in all seven games as the Swiss qualified for the bronze medal game before ultimately falling to Finland and placing fourth.

As a junior player with the Swiss national under-18 team, she participated in the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. She won a bronze medal while serving as alternate captain to the Swiss under-16 team in the girls' ice hockey tournament at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer.

Personal life

Her brother, Simon Enzler [de], is a football player who has represented Switzerland with the under-18, under-19, and under-20 national teams.

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2015-16 ZSC Lions SWHL A 5 3 5 8 2 - - - - -
2017-18 SC Reinach SWHL A 18 17 13 30 6 4 2 2 4 2
2018-19 SC Reinach SWHL A 20 23 24 47 6 5 2 6 8 4
2019-20 SC Reinach SWHL A 17 8 21 29 6 5 2 3 5 2
2020-21 Maine Black Bears NCAA 17 3 6 9 0 – – – – –
2021-22 Maine Black Bears NCAA 22 0 3 3 4 – – – – –
SWHL A totals 60 51 63 114 20 14 6 11 17 8
SWHL A totals 39 3 9 12 4 – – – – –

References

  1. ^ Monnin, Daniel (22 September 2017). "EISHOCKEY: Zuger Power im Aargau". Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Rahel Enzler to join SC Reinach". Swiss Hockey News. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  3. ^ "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: SUI - Switzerland" (PDF). IIHF. 6 April 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Rahel Enzler leaves SC Reinach and moves to North America". Swiss Ice Hockey News. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  5. ^ Monnin, Daniel (6 July 2020). "Die Eishockeyanerin Rahel Enzler wartet auf den Abflug in die USA". Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  6. ^ "A-Nati: WM-Aufgebot für Finnland bekannt". FrauenNati.ch. 6 March 2019.
  7. ^ 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship roster


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