Vicky Sunohara

Vicky Sunohara
Carol Huynh, Cheryl Pounder and Vicky Sunohara
Born	(1970-05-18) May 18, 1970 (age 46) Scarborough, ON, CAN
Height	5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Weight	169 lb (77 kg; 12 st 1 lb)
Position	Centre
Shot	Left
ECAC CIAU CWHL team	Northeastern Huskies Toronto Lady Blues Brampton Thunder
National team	Canada
Playing career	1990–2008
Website	http://www.vickysunohara.ca/
Medal record Representing  Canada Women's ice hockey Olympic games 2002 Salt Lake City Tournament 2006 Turin Tournament 1998 Nagano Tournament IIHF World Women's Championships 1990 Canada Tournament 1997 Canada Tournament 1999 Finland Tournament 2000 Canada Tournament 2001 United States Tournament 2004 Canada Tournament 2007 Canada Tournament 2005 Sweden Tournament

Vicky Sunohara (born May 18, 1970) is a Canadian former ice hockey player. She is currently the head coach of the University of Toronto women's hockey team.

Sunohara was born in Scarborough, Ontario. She is of Japanese-Ukrainian ethnicity. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

Sunohara gave birth to twin boys in 2009, following her retirement from international hockey in 2008.

Sunohara began to play hockey as a small child and the love of the game came naturally to her as her late father, David Sunohara, was a hockey enthusiast who played with the Ryerson Rams in Toronto. Sunohara's late father built a backyard rink in the winters and introduced his daughter to skating at the age of two and a half. "My mother said that from the minute my father introduced me to hockey, I wouldn't do anything else," Sunohara commented. "I just loved it." She began playing organized hockey on a boys team at age 5, but was eventually banned from the boys' leagues due to her gender. She ended up dominating every level of girls' competition.

Sunohara attended Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario, where she was a standout on the women's ice hockey, field hockey, soccer, and flag football teams. Following high school, she received a full scholarship to Northeastern University in Boston, which is part of the NCAA Division 1 in ice hockey. While at Northeastern, she guided her team to win the ECAC Hockey championship, was awarded the ECAC Rookie of the Year, and was named to the NCAA All-American All-Star team. Sunohara also played hockey for the University of Toronto, where her team won the Ontario university championships in 1990-91 and 1991-92. She was named the Ontario university women's ice hockey Rookie of the Year in 1990-91.

Sunohara won an Olympic silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. She continued with an Olympic gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., and another gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.