Turkish national women's ice hockey team

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The Turkish women's national ice hockey team, established in late 2006, is controlled by the Turkish Ice Hockey Federation (Turkish: Türkiye Buz Hokeyi Federasyonu, TBHF). The team made its first appearance at the 2007 Women's World Championships Division IV tournement held between March 26 through April 1 in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.

Women's ice hockey sport in Turkey began in 2005 with the forming of women's clubs in Ankara. The first official competitions were a cup and a tournement held in 2006.^[1] The first women's ice hockey league started on February 17, 2007 with the participation of 6 teams from Ankara and one team from Kocaeli.^[2]

The national team was selected following national team camps. The team coach is Canadian Clive R. Tolley from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, who has assumed the head coach duties for the Turkish senior men's, juniors' (under 20) and escoir (under 18) teams for 4 years term with a trial period of January-June 2007.^[3]

1 Team members
2 2007 World Women's Championship
3 Notables
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Team members

Team members selected to take part at the 2007 World Championship.^[4]

Goaltenders

20 - Didem Güran (Kocaeli BB Kağıtspor)

Defence

24 - Alev Kahraman (Kocaeli BB Kağıtspor)
12 - Cemre Çavdar (Kocaeli BB Kağıtspor)
14 - Nilay Günay (Anka)
10 - Sinem Doğu, Captain (Başkent Yıldızları)
2 - Teksin Öztekin (Anka)

Defence/Forwards

15 - Refika Yılmaz (Polis Akademisi)

Forwards

22 - Elif Ulaş (Milenyum)
6 - Gülçin Çakar (Anka)
17 - İrem Ayan (Polis Akademisi)
21 - İrem Bener (Milenyum)
18 - Mefaret Veziroğlu (Polis Akademisi)
8 - Nazlı Karabük (Başkent Yıldızları)
19 - Pınar Başoğlu (Polis Akademisi)
5 -Simge Özer (Kocaeli BB Kağıtspor)
13 - Tuba Koçak (Polis Akademisi)
23 - Tutku Demir (Milenyum)
9 - Yeliz Yüksel (Polis Akademisi)
7 - Zeynep Yavuzarslan (Başkent Yıldızları)

[edit] 2007 World Women's Championship

Turkish squad made its international debut at the World Championship held in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania between March 26 through April 1, playing in the Group 4, which got together from the teams of Romania, Estonia, New Zealand, Iceland and Croatia besides of Turkey.

The women's team played its first match against the host team Romania and was defeated by 27-0 (7-0, 11-0, 9-0).^[5] Turkish women lost their second match to Estonia with 1-14 (0-6, 0-5, 1-3),^[6] while Elif Ulaş scored the national team's first ever goal in the history.^[7] The third match was lost to New Zealand with 19-0 (9-0, 6-0, 4-0).^[8] Turkey was defeated in its 4th match by Iceland with 1-12 (0-3, 0-3, 1-6). The only Turkish goal was scored by İrem Ayan.