Marissa Brandt

Marissa Brandt (born 18 December 1992), also known as Park Yoon-jung, is a Korean-American ice hockey player who plays on the South Korean national team. When playing for the South Korean or the unified Korean national team, she uses her birth name, which is Park Yoon-jung.

Marissa Brandt
Park Yoon-jung
Born (1992-12-18) December 18, 1992
Seoul, South Korea
Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight 143 lb (65 kg; 10 st 3 lb)
Position Defense
Shoots Right
KWHL team
Former teams		 Phoenix
Gustavus Adolphus
National team  South Korea and
 Korea
Playing career 2011–present
This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Career

Across 4 seasons at Gustavus Adolphus College, she put up 34 points in 111 games.[1]

She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics on the unified Korean national team.[2]

After the 2018 Olympics, she was named an honorary ambassador to help promote post-adoption services and birth family searches by the South Korean Minister for Health & Welfare Park Neung-hoo.[3]

Personal Life

She is the adopted sister of Hannah Brandt.[4][5] In her youth, she was a figure skater before switching to hockey.[6]

References
  1. https://news.blog.gustavus.edu/2018/02/05/long-shot-marissa-brandt-15/
  2. "Athlete Profile: PARK Yoonjung – Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games". www.pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-21. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  3. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/olympics-over-korean-american-adoptee-athletes-focus-search-birth-families-n854471
  4. "Marissa and Hannah Brandt are sisters on and off the ice". www.latimes.com.
  5. https://www.si.com/nhl/2017/11/16/marissa-hannah-brandt-olympic-hockey
  6. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/26/sport/hannah-brandt-marissa-brandt-hockey-olympics/index.html


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