Sara Hjalmarsson (born 9 February 1998) is a Swedish ice hockey player and member of the Swedish national team, currently playing with the Providence Friars women's ice hockey program in the Hockey East (WHEA) conference of the NCAA Division I.
She represented Sweden in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2017, 2019, and 2022.
Playing career
Hjalmarssom hails from Bankeryd, Sweden and attended Solna Gymnasium for secondary school. She played with HV71 Dam during 2012 to 2014 and in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL; called Riksserien until 2016) with AIK Hockey Dam during 2014 to 2018.
NCAA
As a forward with the Friars, she scored 17 goals, and 11 assists in the 2019–20 season, to lead the team in goals scored and tie for points. She was named the Hockey East Player of the Week on 2 December 2019, for having scored six points in the Friar's Mayor's Cup game against Brown Bears, the most points in a game by any NCAA player to that point in the season.