Kati Ahonen

Katariina "Kati" Ahonen is a Finnish retired ice hockey goaltender. A ten-season member of the Finland women's [national ice hockey team|Finnish national ice hockey team], she won bronze medals at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 1992 and 1994, and participated in five IIHF European Women Championships, winning gold at the tournaments in 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1995, and bronze at the 1996 tournament.
At age 15, Ahonen debuted with the Tampereen Ilves Naiset in the inaugural season of the Naisten SM-sarja, the first national women’s ice hockey league in Finland. She went on to play a nineteen-season career in the league with the Tampereen Ilves Naiset, the Keravan Shakers, the Kiekko-Espoo Naiset, and the Itä-Helsingin Kiekko Naiset. During her playing career, Ahonen won the Finnish Championship eight times: four times with the Tampereen Ilves, in 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988; three times with the Keravan Shakers, in 1994, 1995, and 1996; and with the Espoo Blues in 1999.