Jennifer Sandra "Jenny" Harß (also

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Harss; born 14 July 1987) is a German

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coach and retired

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for the German national ice hockey team. A two-time Olympian, she represented Germany at the

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and

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. During her club career, she tended goal in the

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(DFEL), the men's Oberliga, the men's

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, and with the

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program in the

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. Harß has coached the German women's national under-16 team since 2022.

Playing career

Harß began playing ice hockey at age four in the minor ice hockey department of

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in her hometown of

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. Her national league career began in the 2004–05 season of the German national under-18 and under-20 men's leagues with the

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teams of EV Füssen. She made her senior league debut in the following season, at age sixteen, playing in one men's Oberliga game with EV Füssen.

NCAA

During the 2009–10 season, Harß filled in for starting goalie

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. She made a team record of 1,138 saves and led all goalies in the NCAA. In 39 starts, Harß won 29 contests, the second most wins in one season in Bulldogs history. In addition, she played more minutes than any other goaltender in the NCAA. Harß accumulated 2386:51 minutes between the pipes while breaking the Bulldogs single-season record for saves, making 1062 in 37 outings. In the championship game of the 2010 Frozen Four tournament, Harß set a team record and NCAA postseason record for most saves in a game, with 49. Harß served as one of two alternate captains during the

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Milestones

* First Game: 2 October 2009 (vs. Robert Morris) * First Start: 2 October 2009 (vs. Robert Morris) * First Win: 2 October 2009 (vs. Robert Morris) * First Assist: 27 February 2010 (vs. North Dakota) * Most Saves in a Game: 49 (vs. Cornell, 21 March 2010) * First Shutout : 11 October 2009 (vs. St. Cloud State) * Led NCAA goalies in saves (2009–10) * Led NCAA goalies in minutes played (2009–10)

International play

Harß played with the German women's national ice hockey team from 2005 to 2021, during which she participated in nine

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tournaments, three Olympic qualification tournaments, and two Winter Olympic Games. In the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2006 Winter Olympics in

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, she ranked second of all goaltenders playing at least 40 percent of their team's minutes in both

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(SV%) and

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(GAA) after allowing just six goals on 103 shots; she concluded the tournament with an excellent .942 SV% and 1.89 GAA across three games played. At the

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, she had more than half of the playing time in net for Germany.

Awards and honors

Personal life

Harß is a 2006 graduate of the Staatlicher Fach- und Berufsoberschule (FOS/BOS) in

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. She was roommates with Canadian national team players

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and

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during her time at the

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harss, Jennifer Living people 1987 births Ice hockey people from Füssen German expatriate ice hockey people German expatriate sportspeople in the United States German women's ice hockey goaltenders Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Germany