Saara Tuominen

Saara Elisa Tuominen (born 1 January 1986 in Ylöjärvi, Finland) has competed for Finland in ice hockey. At the 2006 Torino Olympics, Tuominen scored one goal and four assists.http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tu/saara-tuominen-1.html She was an assistant captain for Finland's women's ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver where the Finns won the bronze medal.
She is a senior attending the University of Minnesota Duluth and was a three-year captain for the UMD Bulldogs, NCAA Division I national champions in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008 and 2010. She was a 2009 and 2010 WCHA All-Academic Team member, a 2008 All-WCHA Third Team selection and a member of the 2007 All-WCHA Rookie Team.
==Playing career==
===Team Finland===
Tuominen was part of the team that clinched the bronze medal at the 2009 Canada Cup.http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/66240/la_id/1.htm On February 25, 2010, Tuominen assisted on the game winning goal in the bronze medal game versus Sweden. The goal was scored at 2:33 into extra time. Tuominen was credited with the goal before the it was determined the puck went off former Erika Holst's stick.http://www.d.umn.edu/unirel/homepage/10/womenolympics.html Both players rushed the net on a cross-rink pass to force Sweden's misplay and seal the game for the medal-hungry Finns. 
==Personal==
On September 13, 2010, Harss and her Bulldogs teammates were part of a group of NCAA sporting champions that visited the White House in Washington, D.C. and listended to United States president Barack Obama congratulate them on their victory.http://www.umdbulldogs.com/news.php?id=5187
==References==
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
Category:Female ice hockey players
Category:Finnish ice hockey players
Category:Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players
Category:Olympic ice hockey players of Finland
Category:2006 Olympian
Category:2010 Olympian
Category:Born in 1986