Karen Nystrom (born June 17, 1969) was a member of the 1998 Canadian National women's team that participated in ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics was played at The Big Hat and Aqua Wing Arena in Nagano, Japan.-Men's tournament:The 1998 Olympic men's ice hockey tournament was the first in which professional players from the National Hockey League were allowed to participate, allowing national teams to...

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Playing career

Prior to joining the Canadian National women's team for the 1992 Women's World ice hockey championships, Nystrom participated in the Central Ontario Women's Hockey League. Nystrom competed for the Scarborough Firefighters (1985 to 1991) and the Toronto Redwings. Prior to the 1998 Olympics, Nystrom also played hockey for the Northeastern Huskies women's ice hockey

Northeastern Huskies women's ice hockey

The women's varsity hockey program started in 1980, and under former World Hockey Association all-star goaltender Don McLeod, who was named the coach the following season and led the program for ten seasons, became the first national power in collegiate women's hockey...

 program. She would play with the Brampton Thunder

Brampton Thunder

The Brampton Canadettes-Thunder is an ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. The Canadettes-Thunder play its home games at the Powerade Centre in Brampton, Ontario.-Team history:...

 from 1997 to 2003. During the 2000–01 NWHL season

2000–01 NWHL season

-Final standings:Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points.-Playoffs:*March 18, 2001: Sainte-Julie Pantheres 2, Beatrice Aeros 2*March 19, 2001: Beatrice Aeros 8, Sainte-Julie Pantheres 1...

, Nystrom played with the Brampton Thunder and finished fourth in league scoring with 48 points.

Other

Karen Nystrom was also a soccer player who competed for Scarborough United. In 2006, Nystrom was hired as an assistant coach at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa

Oshawa

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, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. Prior to accepting the job, she had worked for over 10 years as a customer service manager for Nike

Nike, Inc.

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Canada. In March 2009, she would become the head coach.

Career stats

Event	Games played	Goals	Assists	Points	Penalty Minutes
1998 Olympics	6	1	0	1	2

Awards and honors

• Won COWHL scoring title in 1991-92 (runner-up in 1990-91, 1992–93 and

1996-97)

• COWHL All-Star Team every year from 1989 to 1997
• OWHA champion with Scarborough Firefighters, 1991