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Luisa Wilson San Román (born 5 August 2005) is a Mexican
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player who plays in the U18 AA league of the Ontario Women's Hockey Association (OWHL) with the North York Storm Prep U18 AA in the
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district of
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, Canada. Wilson won the gold medal with her team in the girls' 3x3 mixed tournament at the
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, Switzerland, on January 15, 2020, making her the first Mexican to do so. She also competed at the 2020 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship – Division II Group B where she won a bronze medal with the Mexican national under-18 team.


Early life

Luisa Wilson San Román was born on 5 August 2005 in
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,
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to a Mexican mother, Laura San Román and a Canadian father, Brian Wilson, a
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in Mexico City and assistant coach for the Mexico women's national ice hockey team. Wilson has played ice hockey since she was 2 or 3 years old, and she also practiced
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Career


Lausanne 2020

Wilson was selected to represent
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at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, in Lausanne, Switzerland, with the Yellow team of the girls' 3x3 mixed ice hockey tournament. Along with athletes from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, South Korea, and Switzerland, Wilson and her team defeated the Black team , achieving the gold medal, thus becoming the first Mexican to win an Olympic medal in a Winter Olympics sport.


2020 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

Wilson joined the Mexico women's national under-18 ice hockey team and competed at the 2020 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship – Division II. She played in five games and scored two goals overall. The team earned the bronze medal after defeating
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Beijing 2022

Wilson said she would have liked to represent
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at the
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, which were held in Beijing, China.


Other achievements

Wilson was listed among ''
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'' 100 Most Powerful Women of Mexico in 2020. Her name is inscribed on the walls of the
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, making her the second Mexican woman to receive such honors after
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, the first woman to
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Personal life

Wilson divides her time living between
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, Canada, and Mexico, with her parents and brothers.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Luisa 2005 births Ice hockey players at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Living people Mexican people of Canadian descent Mexican sportswomen Sportspeople from Celaya Ice hockey people from Toronto Women's ice hockey forwards 21st-century Mexican sportswomen