Theresa Marie Knutson (born April 1, 1996) is an American

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forward, currently playing in the German Women's Ice Hockey League (DFEL) with

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Playing career

Knutson attended Aquinas High School in

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and played varsity ice hockey with the Onalaska Hilltoppers Co-Op based at

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. During her high school ice hockey career in Wisconsin Prep Hockey (WiPH), she led the state in scoring for four consecutive seasons, was named Wisconsin High School Offensive Player of the Year three times, and won the Wisconsin Miss Hockey Award in 2014. From 2014 to 2018, she played college ice hockey with the

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program, scoring 79 points in 135

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games. She scored her first collegiate goal on 19 October 2014 against the Syracuse Orange. After graduating, she moved to Germany to sign with Mad Dogs Mannheim in the Fraueneishockey-Bundesliga. In her rookie Bundesliga season, she ranked third in the league for scoring, with 66 points in 28 games, including 48 goals. She returned to North America for the 2020–21 season, signing with the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; renamed PHF in 2021). Due to the

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, the number of games in the NWHL season was severely limited, prompting Knutson to return to Germany and play with the Eisbären Juniors Berlin in the DFEL after the Riveters season had ended. She re-signed with the Riveters for the

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. Knutson signed with

for the 2022–23 DFEL season, during which she led the league in regular season scoring, with 14 goals and 18 assists for 32 points in twenty games. Her elite production helped propel the team to a bronze medal finish in the 2023

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and her playoff-leading 14 points contributed to ECDC Memmingen’s consecutive semifinal and final series sweeps, which ended in the 2023 German Championship victory.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Knutson, Theresa 1996 births Living people American expatriate ice hockey players in Germany American women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players from Wisconsin Metropolitan Riveters players People from Onalaska, Wisconsin UConn Huskies women's ice hockey players