Darcia Leimgruber (born 19 May 1989) is a

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female

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player. She is a member of the

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. She played in the

2010 Winter Olympics The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Vancouver 2010 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with ...

. She also played also for ZSC Lions Zurich in the Leistungsklasse A, the top

women's ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Two opposing teams use ice h ...

league in

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Playing career

Switzerland

Leimgruber played hockey at Middle Economy School/DHC Langenthal under coach Hans Brechbühler. She earned a gold medal with DHC Langenthal at the Swiss Championships in 2007–08 and a silver medal at the Swiss Championships in 2008–09. She played for the fourth place Swiss team at the World Women's Championship in China. In addition, she was voted one of the most valuable players of the World Women's Championship in Finland. In a game versus Russia at the

2012 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2012 IIHF World Women's Championships was the 14th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation and took place in Vermont, United States, at the Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, Vermont, Burlington, and the Cairns Arena in ...

, Leimgruber logged an assist in a 5–2 victory, as Switzerland advanced to the semifinals.

Maine

Leimgruber has appeared in six games for the Black Bears, scoring her first collegiate goal at Union College on Dec. 11, 2009. She also has recorded an assist to go along with her goal for a total of two points on the season.

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Maine

Olympics

Awards and honors

References

1989 births Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland Swiss women's ice hockey forwards Maine Black Bears women's ice hockey players Ice hockey people from Basel-Stadt 21st-century Swiss sportswomen {{Switzerland-icehockey-bio-stub