Emma Soderberg is an Olympian.

The University of Minnesota Duluth women's hockey senior goaltender was officially named to the 2022 Swedish Olympic Team Wednesday, two months after helping Sweden qualify for the Olympics. Soderberg will be joined on Team Sweden by former Bulldog forward Michelle Lowenhielm (named to her second Olympic team) and UMD defenseman Linnea Hedin, who like Soderberg, will become an Olympian for the first time.

A Jarved, Sweden native, Soderberg currently has logged a Western Collegiate Hockey Association high 1158:47 minutes between the pipes, and in 20 games, owns  the second most wins so far this season (13), the second most shutouts (4), and has posted the second-best saves percentage among goaltenders who have played 13 or more games (.920). Both a USCHO Second Team All-American and a 2020-21 CCM/AHCA Women's University Division Ice Hockey All-American last season as a junior, Soderberg had one of the best season's by a UMD goaltender in recent memory. Ranked in the top-two in the NCAA in at least three categories for almost the entire season, Soderberg finished the year with a 1.56 GAA and .944 saves percentage -- only one goaltender that played in more than 10 games had a higher saves percentage.  Soderberg tied for the second most shutouts in the nation (6) and cleaned up every WCHA honor available, ending with the WCHA Goaltender of the Year and All-WCHA First Team honors, as well as earning the the WCHA's 2020-21 Goaltending Champion.

Lowenhielm becomes a two-time Olympian after making the Swedish side in 2014.  In 144 games for the Bulldogs between , the Sollentuna, Sweden product turned in 42 points (10 goals, 32 assists. Hedin, from Huddinge, Sweden recorded 17 points (3g, 14a) in 143 skates from the backline for UMD over her four-year career from 2014-2018.

The trio helped Sweden qualify for the Olympics back in November, getting the tradition-rich program back to a top-level event for the first time in three years.  Soderberg and Hedin become the 10th UMD's players to suit up for Sweden in the Olympics -- the most Bulldogs to represent any single country in program history.

Soderberg joins her classmate Ashton Bell, who just last week was officially named to Team Canada. Bell centralized with Canada this fall and took a redshirt for the season.  A third currently rostered Bulldog -- Kassy Betinol -- has been centralized with China, though no official roster has been realized by the host country.  

The Bulldogs will be well represented in Beijing -- in all, 10 players from seven different countries will travel to Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Here's a look at players already named to Olympic Teams ahead of the Games:

Canada -- Ashton Bell ,Jocelyne Larocque

China -- Kassy Betinol*

Czech Republic -- Katrina Mrazova

Russia -- Alexandra Vafina

Sweden -- Emma Soderberg, Michelle Lowenhielm, Linnea Hedin

Switzerland -- Lara Stalder

United States -- Maddie Rooney