Tiia Reima
Tiia-Riitta Johanna Reima is a Finnish retired ice hockey player. A trailblazer of women's ice hockey in Finland, her career with the Finnish national ice hockey team began in the early days of women’s international ice hockey competition, the late 1980s, and spanned nearly two decades. During her tenure with the national team, she was one of Finland’s most productive and decorated forwards, winning five IIHF World Women's Championship bronze medals, five IIHF European Women Championship medals, and an Olympic bronze in 1998.
Reima’s club career spanned 26 seasons and was played in Finland with Ilves-Kiekko, Ilves Tampere, IHK Helsinki, and the Espoo Blues of the Naisten SM-sarja, and in Switzerland with SC Lyss Damen and Ladies Team Lugano of the Leistungsklasse A. She served as assistant coach to the Espoo Blues during the 2013–14 season, in which they won the Aurora Borealis Cup, and to Espoo United during the 2016–17 season, in which they achieved silver in the Finnish Championship.
Prior too the 2010–11 season, the Naisten SM-sarja renamed its annual award recognizing the top goal scorer in the regular season, dubbing it the Tiia Reima Award. The rebranding of the league as Naisten Liiga, which occurred prior to the 2017–18 season, did not impact the trophy, which has been awarded in every season since its renaming.
