Kiira Dosdall

Kiira Dosdall-Arena (born July 31, 1987) is an American professional ice hockey player, who currently plays with the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL). She has previously won two Elite Women's Hockey League championships and one Isobel Cup, and is the seventh longest tenured player in NWHL history, one of the few still active from the league's inaugural season.

Kiira Dosdall-Arena
Dosdall-Arena in 2015
Born (1987-07-31) July 31, 1987
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight 141 lb (64 kg; 10 st 1 lb)
Position Defense
Shoots Right
NWHL team
Former teams		 Metropolitan Riveters
Boston Blades
EHV Sabres Vienna
Colgate Raiders
National team  United States
Playing career 2005–present

Playing career

Early career

From 2005 to 2009, Dosdall played for the Colgate Raiders ice hockey team, serving as the team's captain in her senior season. Across 134 NCAA games with Colgate, she scored 63 points. She was nominated for the 2008-09 Patty Kazmaier Award.

Professional

After graduating, Dosdall moved to Austria to join the EHV Sabres Vienna of the Austrian Women's Ice Hockey Bundesliga (DEBL) and the Elite Women's Hockey League (EWHL), where she would play until 2013.[1] As an import player, she received a stipend from the team to cover her housing costs.[2] Dosdall was the first player to be named to the EWHL All-Star Team four years in a row.[3]

In 2013, she returned to North America to sign with the Boston Blades of the CWHL. In her debut CWHL season, she failed to pick up a point in 11 regular season games, before notching one assist in four playoff games. After the team lost in the Clarkson Cup finals against the Toronto Furies, she announced her retirement from hockey.

Dosdall came out of retirement to join the New York Riveters for the NWHL's inaugural season in 2015-16.[4] She scored 7 points in 18 games in her debut NWHL season.

In August 2016, the Riveters announced that Dosdall and team captain Ashley Johnston had each signed a one-year contract worth $13,500 to continue with the franchise in the 2016/17 season.[5] In 2017, Dosdall became an alternate captain for the New York Riveters after the retirement of Morgan Fritz-Ward.[6][7]

She was named to the 2020 NWHL All-Star game as a member of Team Dempsey.[8]

Personal life

Dosdall is a graduate of Colgate University in New York, USA. In addition to her playing career, Dosdall has worked as a project specialist for Schoology.[9][10]

References
  1. Raskin, Alex (November 8, 2015). "Female Hockey Players Get Their Shot With New League". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  2. https://www.theicegarden.com/2020/10/26/21437260/original-metropolitan-riveters-kiira-dosdall-arenas-path-to-the-nwhl-womens-hockey
  3. http://www.ecachockey.com/women/members/colgate/20151811_Dosdall_Interview. Retrieved November 17, 2017. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Raskin, Alex (November 8, 2015). "Female Hockey Players Get Their Shot With New League". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  5. Nelson, Dustin L. (April 12, 2016). "Riveters Re-Sign Ashley Johnston, Kiira Dosdall". The Hockey Writers. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  6. Murphy, Mike (May 25, 2017). "The Riveters have re-signed captain Ashley Johnston". The Ice Garden. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  7. http://www.uticaod.com/sports/20170817/new-hartfords-annika-zalewski-drafted-by-nwhl
  8. https://www.theicegarden.com/2020/2/7/21123065/how-to-watch-2020-nwhl-all-star-game-weekend-preview-twitch-womens-hockey-boston
  9. Musarra, Casey (February 5, 2016). "A day in the life with Kiira Dosdall of the New York Riveters". Newsday. Women's Sports. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  10. Layton, Jeremy (February 20, 2017). "A robotics engineer by day, a women's hockey star by night". New York Post. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
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