Oona Parviainen (born 5 September 1977) is a Finnish retired

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 ...

player and the head coach of

Rovaniemen Kiekko RoKi is a Finnish ice hockey team based at Lappi Areena (capacity 3,500), Rovaniemi. Established in 1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of ...

(RoKi) in the

Naisten Liiga The Kansallinen Liiga ('National League') is the premier division of women's football in Finland. It was previously called the Jalkapallon naisten SM-sarja ('Women's Football Finnish Championship Series') during 1974 to 2006 and the Naisten Lii ...

(NSML). She played with the Finnish national team during 2001 to 2006 and competed in the women's ice hockey tournaments at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

and the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

and at the

2005 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2005 IIHF World Women's Championships was held April 2–9, 2005, in Linköping, at Cloetta Center (now called the Saab Arena), and Norrköping, at Himmelstalundshallen, in Sweden. USA won their first gold medal at the World Championships, de ...

Playing career

Parviainen announced her retirement at age 43, following the

2020–21 Naisten Liiga season The 2020–21 Naisten Liiga season was the thirty-eighth season of the Naisten Liiga, Finland's elite women's ice hockey league, since the league’s creation in 1982. The season began, as scheduled, on 5 September 2020, making the Naisten Liig ...

, during which she was an

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of RoKi. Her club career comprised 21 seasons in the Finnish women's leagues, with the Espoo Blues, KalPa Kuopio, and RoKi, and included nine Finnish Championship titles.

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* * * 1977 births Living people Espoo Blues Naiset players Finnish ice hockey coaches Finnish women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey people from Kuopio Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics KalPa Naiset players Naisten Liiga (ice hockey) coaches Olympic ice hockey players for Finland RoKi Naiset players {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub