Sue Ring-Jarvi

2014 (Pioneer/Builder)

Sue RingJarvi grew up in hockey rich Roseville, and graduated from Ramsey High School in 1969. She shared the same passion for the game of hockey as her mother, Jane Ring (a 2013 inductee as a Pioneer in the development of girl’s and women’s hockey). Sue was a Macalaster grad and went on to grad school at the U of M where she received her coaching certification. She also has her USA Hockey coaching certification. She organized and played on the first University of Minnesota Women’s Hockey Club Team in 1974. In 1980 she organized the Blue J’s women’s team, which has 10 years of State Championships at the Senior Women’s level. She helped form girls teams in Minneapolis, St Paul, Minnetonka, Hopkins, Burnsville, Mounds View, Bloomington, and Roseville. She coached the Mounds View girls varsity high school team from 1995-1998.

They were section champs in ‘97 and ‘98 and finished 4th in the state tournament during those years. She coached the Anoka U14 girls in 1999, and took them to a berth in the state tournament that year. In 2003 she was inducted into the National “M Club” University Hall of Fame for organizing the first women’s club team. In 2005 she received the Joe Burke Award at the NCAA Coaches Convention in Naples Florida. She served as president of the WHAM (Women’s Hockey Association of Minnesota), A Division Commissioner, and B1 Division Commissioner for a combined 15 years. She is currently playing and managing the Blue J B1 Division Women’s Hockey Team. She also organized a team and won four National Pond Hockey Tournaments. Sue is married to Roland Jarvi, and has a son Ross, playing for the Alaska Aces, an ECHL affiliate of the Calgary Flames.

One of her senior teammates said of her...Sue has worked tirelessly to promote the sport, by helping create feeder programs in communities, to get young girls into the sport. Another former teammate told of Sue taking her U of M Club team to challenge eastern college and club powers, on trips to Boston, Providence, New York and Montreal, spreading the word that Minnesota hockey is second to none. Sue’s goal was to get every girl and women she met to play hockey. She and her teammates hosted training clinics to teach the basics. This grass roots method has helped grow the sport from a handful of players in the ‘70’s, to the thousands that play today.Her obsession with the game is contagious. She, along with her mother Jane, sponsor the Jane Ring/Sue Ring-Jarvi  Girls and Women’s Scholarship which the MGHCA currently helps promote with applications available on our web site.

As a Pioneer and Builder in this great sport we welcome Sue Ring-Jarvi to the MGHCA Hall of Fame.