Aoi Shiga

Japanese ice hockey player

Ice hockey player

Aoi Shiga 志賀葵
Shiga representing Japan at the 2017 IIHF World Championship D1A
Born	(1999-07-04) 4 July 1999 (age 24) Hokkaido, Japan
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb; 9 st 2 lb)
Position	Defense
Shoots	Left
SWHL A team Former teams	HC Ladies Lugano Toyota Cygnus Obihiro Ladies
National team	Japan
Playing career	2015–present

Aoi Shiga (Japanese: 志賀葵, しがあおい, Hepburn: Shiga Aoi, born 4 July 1999) is a Japanese ice hockey player and member of the Japanese national team, currently playing in the Swiss Women's League (SWHL A) with HC Ladies Lugano.

International play

Medal record
Representing Japan
Women's ice hockey
World Championship
	2017 Austria	Division I Group A
World U18 Championship
	2016 Hungary	Division I

As a junior player with the Japanese national under-18 team, she participated in the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship Top Division tournaments in 2015 and 2017, and the Division I tournament in 2016. In 2017, she served as national team captain and was selected by the coaches as a top-three player on the team.

Shiga made her national senior team debut at the 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship, where she was the youngest player representing Japan and the second-youngest player competing in the tournament (the youngest was Noemi Neubauerová of Czechia).^[1] The following year, she competed in the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group A tournament, once again as the youngest player on the team. She was a member of the Japanese delegation at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Sochi and played in the women's ice hockey tournament, in which Japan claimed sixth place.^[2]

Shiga has participated in the Top Division tournament of every IIHF Women's World Championship since playing in the 2019 tournament.^[3]^[4] She recorded her first point with the senior national team at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship, earning the secondary assist on a goal scored by her sister, Akane Shiga, against Hungary in the preliminary round. Her first senior national team goal was scored against Finland in the preliminary round of the 2022 IIHF Women's World Championship, assisted by Haruka Toko and Akane Shiga. The coaches named her as a top-three player for Japan in both 2021 and 2022.^[5]

She represented Japan in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, recording three assists in five games.^[6]

Personal life

Her younger sister, Akane, is also an ice hockey player, a forward, with the Japanese national ice hockey team and PWHL Ottawa.^[6]^[7]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2018–19	Toyota Cygnus	WJIHL	9	2	0	2	12	–	–	–	–	–
WJIHL totals			9	2	0	2	12	–	–	–	–	–

International

Year	Team	Event	Result	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2015	Japan	U18	8th	5	1	1	2	4
2016	Japan	U18 (Div I)		5	3	1	4	2
2016	Japan	WC	8th	5	0	0	0	0
2017	Japan	U18	8th	5	0	0	0	0
2017	Japan	WC (Div IA)		5	0	0	0	0
2018	Japan	OG	6th	5	0	0	0	0
2019	Japan	WC	8th	5	0	0	0	0
2021	Japan	WC	6th	7	0	2	2	0
2022	Japan	OG	6th	5	0	3	3	0
2022	Japan	WC	5th	7	1	1	2	0
2023	Japan	WC	7th	6	1	0	1	2
Junior totals				15	4	2	6	6
Senior totals				45	2	6	8	2

References

^ 2016 World Championship roster
^ "Aoi Shiga". PyeongChang2018.com. PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
^ "女子世界選手権　日本代表メンバー決定". jihf.or.jp. 22 March 2019. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
^ 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship roster
^ "女子日本代表（2023 IIHF 女子世界選手権）– 志賀葵（SHIGA Aoi）". Japan Ice Hockey Federation (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Beijing 2022 – Athletes: Aoi SHIGA". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
^ Donkin, Karissa (18 December 2023). "'Focusing on us': PWHL Ottawa aims to build on team culture heading into inaugural season". CBC. Retrieved 20 December 2023.