Iveta Karafiatova

Iveta Karafiatova (born May 14, 1988 in Bratislava, Slovakia), is a Slovak female forward. Karafiatova participated in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games for Slovakia.http://i.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=12753/index.html 
==Playing career==
Karafiatova, along with fellow Slovakian national team members Zuzana Tomcikova, and Martina Velickova played on boys' teams until Slovakian league rules stated they could not play once they turned 16. All three continued their careers by playing hockey in Saskatchewan for head coach Barrett Kropf at Caronport High School in 2004.http://www.briercrest.ca/alumni/news-article.asp?id=884 Karafiatova, Tomcikova, and Velickova played for the Caronport Lady Cougars but Karafiatova and Tomcikova also played on the boys team. 
She was part of the Slovakian roster that defeated Bulgaria by an 82-0 score in September 2008 in the Olympic Pre-Qualification tournament in Latvia. In the win, she accumulated 11 points.http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/166/IHW166907_74_4_0.pdf
 
In 2009, she competed in the 2009 IIHF World Women’s Championship Division I, which was played in Graz, Austria. She was part of the Slovak team that qualified for the top division of the 2011 World Women's Championships.
===Vancouver Winter Games===
She played for Slovakia in the 2010 Olympics. It was the first time that Slovakia competed in women's ice hockey outside of Europe.http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/browse/8/article/slovak-with-a-canadian-accent.html?tx_ttnews%5BpS%5D=1264978800&tx_ttnews%5BpL%5D=2419199&tx_ttnews%5Barc%5D=1&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=187&cHash=80a0dd6728 Of note, she was the captain of the Slovakian national team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games. Her first Olympic women's ice hockey game came on February 13, 2010 against Canada. Slovakia lost the game by an 18-0 mark and she was penalized for roughing in the first period.http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/70325/la_id/1.htm She did not register any points in the Olympic tournament as Slovakia finished in eighth place.http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/iveta-karafiatova-1.html
==Career stats==
===Winter Olympics===
Year 	GP	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-
2010 Vancouver Olympics	5 	0 	0 	0 	4 	
==Awards and honors==
*Best Defender, 2009 IIHF World Women’s Championship Division Ihttp://www.iihf.com/nc/channels/iihf-world-u20-championship/news-singleview-world-u20-ia-channel/article/slovakian-women-promoted.html
==Personal==
Karafiatova attended university in Linkopings, Sweden, where she played defense on the varsity hockey team. 
==References==
 
Category:Born in 1983
Category:Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Category:Olympic ice hockey players of Slovakia
Category:Slovak ice hockey players
Category:2010 Olympian
Category:Female ice hockey players