Rahel Enzler
| Rahel Enzler | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
30 July 2000 | ||
| Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| PFWL team Former teams |
EV Zug
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| National team |
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| Playing career | 2016–present | ||
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Medal record | |||
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Rahel Enzler (born 30 July 2000) is a Swiss ice hockey player and member of the Swiss national team. She is signed in the Swiss Women's League (PFWL) with the EVZ Women's Team of EV Zug through the 2025–26 season.
Playing career
Enzler developed in the youth system of EHC Seewen, a minor and junior ice hockey club in Seewen, Schwyz, less than 20 km (12 mi) northwest of her hometown of Walchwil, Zug.[1] She played five games with the ZSC Lions Frauen, the women's representative team of the ZSC Lions, during the 2015–16 SWHL A season in addition to playing with the Seewen under-15 and under-17 teams in the Mini A and Top Novizen respectively.
Enzler joined SC Reinach Damen, the women's representative team of SC Reinach, in 2017. She served as Reinach's captain during the 2019–20 season of the Women's League (SWHL A; renamed from Swiss Women's Hockey League A in 2019).[2]
Her college ice hockey career was played with the Maine Black Bears women's ice hockey program in the Hockey East (HEA) conference of the NCAA Division I.[3] She first joined the program as an incoming freshman in the 2020–21 season.[4][5]
International
Enzler represented Switzerland in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2017, 2019 and 2021.[6][7] At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she skated in all seven games as the Swiss qualified for the bronze medal game before ultimately falling to Finland and placing fourth.
As a junior player with the Swiss national under-18 team, she participated in the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. She won a bronze medal while serving as alternate captain to the Swiss under-16 team in the girls' ice hockey tournament at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer.
In the quarterfinal round of the 2026 Winter Olympics, Enzler earned one of the assists on Alina Muller's goal.[8] Switzerland defeated Finland in a 1-0 final, returning to the semifinals for the third time in four Olympics.[9]
Personal life
Her brother, Simon Enzler, is a football player who has represented Switzerland with the under-18, under-19, and under-20 national teams.
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2015-16 | ZSC Lions | SWHL A | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2017-18 | SC Reinach | SWHL A | 18 | 17 | 13 | 30 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||
| 2018-19 | SC Reinach | SWHL A | 20 | 23 | 24 | 47 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | ||
| 2019-20 | SC Reinach | SWHL A | 17 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 2020-21 | Maine Black Bears | HEA | 17 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2021-22 | Maine Black Bears | HEA | 22 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2022-23 | Maine Black Bears | HEA | 29 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2023-24 | Maine Black Bears | HEA | 35 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2024-25 | EV Zug | PFWL | 28 | 16 | 36 | 52 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | ||
| SWHL A/PFWL totals | 88 | 67 | 99 | 166 | 20 | 20 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 10 | ||||
| NCAA totals | 103 | 11 | 38 | 49 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
References
- ↑ Monnin, Daniel (22 September 2017). "EISHOCKEY: Zuger Power im Aargau". Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ↑ "Rahel Enzler to join SC Reinach". Swiss Hockey News. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ↑ "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: SUI - Switzerland" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 6 April 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ↑ "Rahel Enzler leaves SC Reinach and moves to North America". Swiss Ice Hockey News. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ↑ Monnin, Daniel (6 July 2020). "Die Eishockeyanerin Rahel Enzler wartet auf den Abflug in die USA". Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ↑ "A-Nati: WM-Aufgebot für Finnland bekannt". FrauenNati.ch. 6 March 2019.
- ↑ 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship roster
- ↑ "Switzerland 1 Finland 0 14 February 2026 Statistics". International Ice Hockey Federation. 14 February 2026. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
- ↑ Podnieks, Andrew (14 February 2026). "Braendli, Muller lead Swiss to Semis". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
- Rahel Enzler at EVZ Women's Team
- Rahel Enzler at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
- Rahel Enzler at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)
- Rahel Enzler at Olympics.com
- Rahel Enzler at Olympedia
- Rahel Enzler on Instagram
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Swiss women's ice hockey forwards
- Swiss Women's League players
- EV Zug (women) players
- Maine Black Bears women's ice hockey players
- Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2026 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2026 Winter Olympics
- Youth Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- Ice hockey players at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
- Ice hockey people from the canton of Zug
- 21st-century Swiss sportswomen