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Noora Räty

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Noora Räty enters her first season as an assistant coach for St. Cloud State Women's Hockey in 2024-25.

Räty comes to St. Cloud after spending the 2023-24 season as the goaltenders coach for Shenzhen Kunlun Red Star of the Chinese Women’s Ice Hockey League (WCIHL) where she helped the team win the league’s inaugural championship. Prior to her first season as a coach in China, Räty spent 19 years as a goaltender at the collegiate, professional and international level.

Regarded as one of the best goaltenders in the World, Räty represented Finland in four Olympic Games and nine IIHF World Championships, winning two Olympic bronze medals and five IIHF medals (one silver and four bronze). At the Olympics, she was named an All-Star once and at the World Championships, she won the Best Goaltender Award five times, was named to the All-Star team four times and earned MVP honors once. Räty was a three-time champion while playing in Russia (Russian Women’s Hockey League / Zhenskaya Hockey League) and was named the Goaltender of the Year in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL).

During her collegiate career at the University of Minnesota, Räty was a two-time All-American and won two NCAA Hockey Tournament Championships. She owns the NCAA record for winning percentage in a season (1.000, 38-0, 2013). In the NCAA record book, Räty currently ranks second in career goalie shutouts (43), tied for second in career goalie wins (114), tied for second in goalie shutouts in a season (17, 2013), fifth in career save percentage (.946), tied for seventh in careers goals against average (1.34), tied for seventh in season save percentage (.956, 2013), tied for eighth in career goalie winning percentage (.849), 10^th in season goals against average (0.96, 2013) and 19^th in career saves (3,250). She led the NCAA in save percentage (.956, 2013), goals against average (1.35, 2012) and goalie winning percentage (1.000, 2013).

Prior to her NCAA career, the Espoo, Finland native enjoyed success in the Naisten SM-sarja, the top women's ice hockey league in Finland (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017). Räty was a three-time champion and two-time most valuable performer of the playoffs. She was also named Rookie of the Year in 2005-06 before being named to the All-Star Team and the Best Goaltender in 2006-07.