Taylor Heise
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Professional Hockey Player
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- Full name
- Taylor Heise
- Years active
- 2017–present
- Position
- Forward
- Jersey number
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- Nationality
- American
- Hometown
- Lake City, Minnesota, U.S.
- College
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- Agent
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taylor's story
Taylor Heise ( HY-zee; born March 17, 2000) is an American professional ice hockey forward for the Minnesota Frost of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). A member of the United States women's national ice hockey team, she has won five IIHF medals—three consecutive U18 World Championship gold medals (2016–2018) and two Women's World Championship gold medals (2023, 2025).
She was named Tournament MVP at both the 2018 U18 World Championship and the 2022 IIHF Women's World Championship, where she led the tournament with 18 points, the most by any player in nearly 30 years. Heise played college ice hockey at the University of Minnesota, where she won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2022 as the nation's top player.
During her five-year collegiate career (2018–2023), she recorded 227 points on 97 goals and 130 assists in 175 games, setting a program record for most games played. She was a two-time CCM/AHCA First-Team All-American and two-time WCHA Forward of the Year (2022, 2023), leading the NCAA Division I in scoring as a senior with 66 points and in goals as a graduate student with 29.
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ncaa.com
Patty Kazmaier season crowns Heise as college hockey’s top player
Heise won the 2022 Patty Kazmaier Award after leading the nation in scoring.
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