Betty Jouanny (born 4 January 1992) is a French

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) 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. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

forward, currently playing for

AIK IF Allmänna Idrottsklubben Ishockeyförening (abbreviated ''AIK IF'', also known as ''AIK Hockey'', often abbreviated ''AIK'' in hockey subjects), is the ice hockey department of sports club Allmänna Idrottsklubben based in Stockholm, Sweden. Sin ...

in the

SDHL The Swedish Women's Hockey League ( sv, Svenska damhockeyligan), abbreviated SDHL, is the elite league for women's ice hockey in Sweden. It was established in 2007 as the by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and was renamed prior to the 2016� ...

and the French national team.

Career

Jouanny grew up in

Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ( frp, Chamôni), more commonly known as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924. In 2019, it had ...

, before leaving France to play and study at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de ...

Québec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...

. In 2013, she moved to Sweden to sign with

Brynäs IF Brynäs IF is a Swedish ice hockey team from Gävle. The club currently plays in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), the top tier of ice hockey in Sweden. The club has played in the top-tier league since 1960, longer than any other team. History ...

in the Riksserien. She would play 147 with Brynäs, scoring 61 points. After five seasons with Brynäs, she signed with

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

ahead of the 2018-19 SDHL season. It would prove to be a difficult season for her, however, as she struggled with recovering from a two broken feet in her previous two seasons and barely saw any playing time with the club. By November 2018, she had decided to leave Djurgården, heading north to join

Damettan DamEttan (called Division 1, 2007–2015) is the second-highest women's ice hockey league in Sweden, below the SDHL and above Damtvåan. Beginning with the first official women's ice hockey Swedish Championship in 1988, the league served as th ...

club Björklöven. After scoring 19 points in 7 games with Björklöven, she returned to the SDHL to join

Modo Hockey Modo Hockey (or MoDo with uppercase letters) is a professional ice hockey club in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The team plays in Sweden's second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan. The club was founded in 1987 and has won one SHL championships; in 2007. ...

's playoff run. She spent the 2019-20 SDHL season with

Leksands IF Leksands Idrottsförening is a Swedish ice hockey team from the town of Leksand in the region of Dalarna. The team plays in the top-tier league, SHL, after succeeding through the 2019 SHL qualifiers and thus earning promotion to the SHL. The c ...

, putting up a career high 20 points in 36 games and scoring her first career SDHL playoff goal as the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals. She signed with

ahead of the 2020-21 season.

International

Jouanny made her French senior national debut at the IIHF World Championships Division I in 2009. In 2012, she joined the national team on a seven-game tour of Québec. She scored 3 points in 3 games at the 2018 IIHF Women's World Championship_Division I, hosted in France, as France earned promotion from Division IA. She represented France at the

2019 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship was an international Ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was contested in Espoo, Finland from 4 to 14 April 2019 at the Espoo Metro Areena. The United States won their ...

, the country's first ever appearance at the top level of the IIHF Women'ss World Championships. She made her 200th appearance for France at the 2019 Worlds.

Personal life

Jouanny has a bachelor's degree in kinesiology.

References

External links

* 1992 births Living people French expatriate ice hockey people French expatriate sportspeople in Canada French expatriate sportspeople in Sweden French women's ice hockey forwards Sportspeople from Annecy Modo Hockey players Brynäs IF players IF Björklöven players Djurgårdens IF Hockey players AIK IF players Montreal Carabins women's ice hockey players {{France-icehockey-bio-stub