Monika Kvaková
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Monika Kvakova is a Slovak
Slovak
Slovak may refer to:* Related to, from, or belonging to the country of Slovakia* Slovaks, An ethnic sub-group of the Western Slavic people inhabiting the nation of Slovakia.* Slovak language...

 female goaltender
Goaltender
In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...

. Kavkova participated in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games for Slovakia.

Playing career

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. Kavkova logged all sixty minutes of the game as she earned the shutout. Of note, the Bulgarian team was unable to record one shot on net.

In 2009, she was part of the roster at 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.

Kvakova played one game for Slovakia at the 2011 IIHF 12 Nations Tournament
2011 IIHF 12 Nations Tournament
The IIHF 12 Nations Invitational Tournament Series was held in Vierumäki, Finland and Courchevel, France . The competing nations will be the national women's teams. This is a new tournament introduced by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The goal is to close the large gaps in skill between...

 tournament on August 27. Versus Canada, she allowed a hat trick from Vicki Bendus
Vicki Bendus
Vicki Bendus is a hockey player for the Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey program. She was the winner of the 2010 Patty Kazmaier Award, awarded to the top player in women's NCAA hockey. She was also selected for the Canadian national women's team that will compete in the 2010 Four Nations Cup....

 as Canada outshot Slovakia 73-8.

Vancouver Winter Games

She was part of the first Slovakian women's ice hockey team that competed in the Winter Olympic games. She was the backup to Zuzana Tomcikova
Zuzana Tomčíková
Zuzana Tomčíková is a member of the Slovakia women's national ice hockey team and also plays for the Bemidji State Beavers. Tomčíková was part of the team that finished in eighth place at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games...

 in the 2010 Olympics. It was the first time that Slovakia competed in women's ice hockey outside of Europe. She did not log any minutes in the Olympic tournament as Slovakia finished in eighth place.

Winter Olympics

Year GP Mins W L T GAA
2010 Vancouver Olympics 5 0 0 0 0 0.00

IIHF

Year Event GP Mins W L T GAA Sv %
2011 IIHF 12 Nations Tournament 1 60 0 0 0 11.00 .849
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