Lotti Odnoga

Hungarian ice hockey player

Ice hockey player

Lotti Odnoga
Born	(1999-01-19) 19 January 1999 (age 25) Győr, Hungary
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb; 11 st 3 lb)
Position	Defense
Shoots	Left
SDHL team Former teams	SDE Hockey St. Thomas Tommies Dartmouth Big Green MAC Budapest KMH Budapest
National team	Hungary
Playing career	2013–present

Lotti Odnoga (born 19 January 1999) is a Hungarian ice hockey defenseman and member of the Hungarian national team, currently^[update] playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with SDE Hockey.

Playing career

Odnoga developed in the minor ice hockey department of Győri ETO HC in her home city of Győr in northwestern Hungary. She played on boys’ teams with Győri ETO HC throughout her childhood.^[1] At age 14, she began to also play with the KMH Budapest senior women's team in the Elite Women's Hockey League (EWHL), making her debut in the 2013–14 season. Odnoga continued to split her time between the Győri ETO HC junior men's teams and KMH Budapest during the 2014–15 season, appearing in fifteen games with KMH and recording 10 points on 4 goals and 6 assists.

The 2015–16 season saw Odnoga relocate to the United States to attend Vermont Academy, a private boarding school in Saxtons River, Vermont. She became interested in attending the school after speaking with the Vermont Academy ice hockey coach at an international ice hockey camp in Lake Placid, New York during the summer of 2015, however, playing ice hockey and studying in the United States had long been a dream of hers.^[1] At Vermont Academy, she was a three-sport athlete, participating in association football, ice hockey, and tennis, and a ten-time letter winner.^[2] In her senior year, Odnoga served as captain of the tennis team and earned Division II All-NEPSAC First Team ice hockey honours and was named to the NEPSAC Class D Ice Hockey Tournament All-Star Team.^[3]^[4]

As high school graduation approached, Odnoga received scholarship offers to play NCAA Division I ice hockey at a number of schools, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the University of Vermont, and Boston University, among others,^[5] but ultimately committed to Dartmouth College due to its small size, Ivy League reputation, and her familiarity with and affinity for the area – Darmouth campus is less than 50 miles (80 km) from Vermont Academy.^[6]

In her rookie season with the Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey program, she ranked fourth on the team in points, with 12 points in 29 games, and led the team in assists, with 10. She also led the team in penalty minutes, with 42 PIM – twelve more minutes than her second ranked teammate. Odnoga continued to be a leading defenseman for the Big Green in her sophomore season, again ranking fourth for points, with 11 points in 29 games, and tying with forward Gabby Billing for most assists, with 9.^[7] Her performance in the 2019–20 season merited selection to the All-Ivy Honorable Mention team, making Odnoga the only Dartmouth Big Green player to earn All-Ivy lauds that season.^[8]

She concluded her collegiate career with the St. Thomas Tommies women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference during the 2022–23 season.

Personal life

Odnoga’s older brother, Mátyás, is a professional ice hockey player and has played with several Hungarian clubs in the Erste Liga.^[9]

She studied at Révai Miklós Gimnázium in Győr before moving to the United States to complete her secondary education and credits the school with providing a solid foundation in the English language.^[1]

As a child, Odnoga competed in equestrian sports at the national and regional levels, participating primarily in dressage and show jumping events.^[3]^[10]^[11]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2013-14	KMH Budapest	EWHL	12	0	1	1	10	–	–	–	–	–
2014-15	KMH Budapest	EWHL	15	4	6	10	26	–	–	–	–	–
2018-19	Dartmouth Big Green	NCAA	29	2	10	12	42	–	–	–	–	–
2019-20	Dartmouth Big Green	NCAA	28	2	9	11	24	–	–	–	–	–
2020-21	Dartmouth Big Green	NCAA	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–	–
2020-21	MAC Budapest	EWHL	6	1	3	4	2	2	0	1	1	0
2021-22	Dartmouth Big Green	NCAA	23	2	3	5	17	–	–	–	–	–
2022-23	St. Thomas Tommies	NCAA	34	2	3	5	12	–	–	–	–	—
EWHL totals			33	5	10	15	38	2	0	1	1	0

Sources: USCHO^[12]

International

Year	Team	Event	Result	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2014	Hungary U18	WW18	8th	5	0	0	0	4
2015	Hungary U18	WW18 D1	13th	5	1	2	3	4
2015	Hungary	WW D1B	18th	5	0	0	0	6
2016	Hungary U18	WW18 D1	13th	5	0	1	1	2
2016	Hungary	WW D1B	15th	5	0	0	0	0
2017	Hungary U18	WW18 D1A	12th	5	2	0	2	14
2017	Hungary	WW D1A	13th	5	0	0	0	16
2018	Hungary	WW D1A	11th	5	0	0	0	2
2019	Hungary	WW D1A	9th	5	0	3	3	2
2021	Hungary	WW	9th	4	0	1	1	4
2022	Hungary	WW	8th	6	0	0	0	2
2023	Hungary	WW	9th	4	0	1	1	4
Junior totals				20	3	3	6	24
Senior totals				39	0	5	5	36

Awards and honors

2015 World U18 Championship – Division I, Best Player on Team
2015 Héraklész Program Best Female Ice Hockey Player^[13]
2019–20 All-Ivy League Honorable Mention^[14]
2021 IIHF Women's World Championship, Top-3 Player on Team as selected by coaches
2021–22 MJSZ Best Hungarian Women's Defenseman^[15]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Gábor, Szabó (16 December 2015). "Jégkorong - Nagy álma vált valóra Odnoga Lottinak". Kisalföld (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ "2021-22 Women's Hockey Roster: 21 Lotti Odnoga". Dartmouth College Athletics. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b Staffieri, Mark (1 October 2019). "IIHF: Lotti Odnoga | Team Hungary". Women's Hockey Life. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ "NEPSGIHA 2017-2018 All-NEPSAC Teams" (PDF). New England Preparatory School Athletic Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ "Odnoga Commits to Dartmouth". Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation. 31 January 2018. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ "Girls' Ice Hockey Defenseman Lotti Odnoga '18 Commits to Dartmouth". Vermont Academy. 29 January 2018. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ "Odnoga Lotti: Jövőre még erősebbek leszünk". Jégkorongblog (in Hungarian). 8 April 2020. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ Brackett, Charlotte (27 February 2020). "Odnoga Named to All-Ivy Honorable Mention Team". Dartmouth College Athletics. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ "Player Profile – Mátyás Odnoga". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ Sipos, Viola (24 May 2010). "I. Abdai Pünkösdi Gyermek Ügyességi Versenyről - beszámoló, eredmények" (in Hungarian). Zsejkepusztai Lovas Egylet [Equestrian Association of Zsejkepuszta]. Archived from the original on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^ "Korábbi Gyermek Ügyességi lovas verseny Abdán". Lovasok.hu (in Hungarian). 18 September 2010. Archived from the original on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^ "Lotti Odnoga: Career Statistics". US College Hockey Online. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ "A 2016-os Héraklész Gála díjazott utánpótláskorú sportolói (a 2015-ös eredmények alapján)" (PDF). Hungarian Olympic Committee (in Hungarian). February 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ "Women's Ice Hockey Sweeps Ivy League Major Awards, Five Named All-Ivy". Cornell Big Red. 26 February 2020. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
^ "Jégkorong - átadták a legjobbaknak járó díjakat a szövetség közgyűlésén". Székesfehérvár (Press release) (in Hungarian). 1 June 2022. Archived from the original on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

External links

Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
Lotti Odnoga at the 2021–22 Dartmouth Big Green Women's Ice Hockey Roster

Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey

Venues