Rose Alleva (born June 16, 1992) is a retired American

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defender, who most recently played for the

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of the

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(PHF) in the 2021–22 season.

Career

She was invited to the USA Hockey National Development Camp in 2007, the first player from her hometown of

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to be invited since John Pohl was invited two decades earlier. In 2010, she was named a finalist for the Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award. From 2010 to 2014, she attended

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, scoring 39 points in 115

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games. She picked up an assist in her collegiate debut on October 22, 2010, against

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. She led the team's defenders in scoring in her senior year, being named a Second-Team All-Ivy and winning her team's Unsung Hero Award. After graduating, she spent time with the independent

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, including joining them for an exhibition tour of Sweden in the summer of 2017. She was selected 70th overall by the

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Vanke Rays The Shenzhen Vanke Rays () were a women's ice hockey team that played in the 2017–18 season of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). They were based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and played at the Shenzhen Dayun Arena. The team was develo ...

in the

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, and would sign with the team for the 2017–18 season. She picked up four points in twenty-eight games in her rookie CWHL season. She scored her first CWHL goal on March 10, 2018, against Kunlun Red Star, the last game-winning regular season goal in Vanke Rays history as a separate team. The next season, the team would merge with Kunlun to make the

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, and she chose to stay with the team. She notched one assist in thirteen games in the 2018–19 CWHL season. After the collapse of the CWHL in May 2019, she chose not to stay with Shenzhen as they moved to the Russian

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, but instead returned to Minnesota to sign with the Whitecaps, who were part of the NWHL. She re-signed with the team for the

2020–21 NWHL season The 2020–21 NWHL season was the sixth season of the National Women's Hockey League in North America. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the season was held in a bubble in Lake Placid, New York, from January to February 2021, with all five te ...

, with Whitecaps general manager Jack Brodt stating that "Rose’s good hands and quick moves are a great asset in breaking out the puck."

Personal life

Alleva has a master's degree in biological science from the

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and a bachelor's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton. She previously attended

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, where she was an all-conference tennis player alongside her hockey career. In 2020, she returned to the school to serve as their Girls Tennis Coach. Born in China but raised in Minnesota, she turned down the chance to obtain Chinese citizenship while playing for Shenzhen, as it would've required her to give up her American citizenship.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alleva, Rose Living people People from Red Wing, Minnesota Ice hockey players from Minnesota Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays players 1992 births American women's ice hockey defensemen Minnesota Whitecaps players Princeton Tigers women's ice hockey players 21st-century American sportswomen