Theresa Marie Knutson (born April 1, 1996) is an American ice hockey forward, currently playing in the German Women's Ice Hockey League (DFEL) with ECDC Memmingen.
Playing career Knutson attended Aquinas High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin and played varsity ice hockey with the Onalaska Hilltoppers Co-Op based at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, Wisconsin. 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 UConn Huskies women's ice hockey program, scoring 79 points in 135 NCAA 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 COVID-19 pandemic, 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 2021–22 PHF season.
Knutson signed with ECDC Memmingen 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 EWHL Super Cup 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 Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 2010-11 Onalaska Co-Op WiPH 54 2 5 3 80 2011-12 Onalaska Co-Op WiPH 24 61 32 938 5 10 2 126 2012-13 Onalaska Co-Op WiPH 23 70 14 9432 5 7 7 148 2013-14 Onalaska Co-Op WiPH 22 69 18 8726 5 9 11 202 2014-15 UConn Huskies NCAA 36 9 5 1410 – – – –– 2015-16 UConn Huskies NCAA 37 19 9 2822 – – – –– 2016-17 UConn Huskies NCAA 23 10 9 1912 – – – –– 2017-18 UConn Huskies NCAA 39 13 5 1816 – – – –– 2018-19 Mad Dogs Mannheim DFEL 28 48 18 6622 2 8 0 82 2019-20 Mad Dogs Mannheim DFEL 21 15 13 2830 4 7 4 112 2020-21 Metropolitan Riveters NWHL 3 1 0 10 – – – –– 2020-21 Eisbären Juniors Berlin DFEL 8 5 7 120 2 2 0 20 2021-22 Metropolitan Riveters PHF 19 6 6 126 1 0 0 00 2022-23 ECDC Memmingen DFEL 20 14 18 32 8 6 9 5 14 0NCAA totals 135 51 28 79 60 – – – – –PHF totals 22 7 6 13 6 1 0 0 0 0DFEL totals 77 82 56 138 60 8 11 5 16 0
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