Valentina Bettarini (born 29 June 1990) is an Italian ice hockey player and member of the Italian national ice hockey team, currently playing with the

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in both the

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(EWHL) and the

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(IHLW). She represented Italy in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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. Aged 15 years and 228 days, she was the youngest woman to participate in the tournament. Bettarini has been an EWHL champion five times, winning in 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2016 with the

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and in 2017 with the EVB Eagles. With the EVB Eagles, she is also a four-time winner of the Italian Championship, in 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2022.

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''Olympic qualification scoring not included in career totals''

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* * 1990 births Living people European Women's Hockey League players Ice hockey people from Bolzano Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics Italian expatriate ice hockey people Italian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Italian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Italian ice hockey defencemen Italian women's ice hockey players Olympic ice hockey players for Italy {{Italy-icehockey-bio-stub