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Jess Koizumi Ice hockey player

Jessica Koizumi (born April 15, 1985) was a former member of the United States national women's ice hockey team. Koizumi also competed for the Minnesota Whitecaps of the WWHL and for the Montreal Stars and the Boston Blades of the CWHL. Koizumi was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but was raised in Simi Valley, California.Koizumi, who earned a gold medal as a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team at the 2008 IIHF World Women’s Championship, joined the Yale women’s ice hockey staff as an assistant coach for the 2010-11 season. Koizumi played for the University of Minnesota-Duluth while Yale’s head coach Joakim Flygh was an assistant there, and she captained UMD to the NCAA Frozen Four championship game in 2007.In addition to her gold medal at the 2008 IIHF Women’s World Championship in China, Koizumi also was part of the U.S. team’s second-place finish at the 2007 Four Nations Cup. She was on the U.S. Women’s Select Team in 2008-09 while getting her master’s degree in education from Minnesota-Duluth. She also played for the U.S. Under-22 Select Team in the series with Canada in 2004 and 2006.