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All-Time Top Players, G :
Kristina Bunker, Forward, Blaine

     Awarded: All-Time Top Player
      Four times MGHCA All-State
      A three-time all-metro player
      Blaine's all-time leading career scorer with 312 pts

How She Got Started

Let Kristina tell it:

I told my grandpa that I wanted to try playing. So one day he went out with me and bought me all of the equipment that I needed. I brought it home to tell my mom and she started to cry because at that time girls really didnt play hockey. She told me if I wanted to play hockey I would have to be in dance too, I started to cry then. I taught myself how to skate and played street hockey with the neighbor boys. The rest is all history.

I skated a lot when I was really young with the double blade skates probably not much after I could walk. I started hockey skating when I was about 7 or 8.

Did your parents play hockey? Neither.

My older brother started playing the same year I did. I played with the boys my first year or [of ] organized hockey and also in spring/summer and fall leagues on and off.

Her High School Stats

Season All-State Team G A Pts

1999-2000 Honorable Mention 173

2000-01 Honorable Mention
MGHCA All-State

2001-02 Honorable Mention
MGHCA All-State

2002-03 Second Team
MGHCA All-State 44 34 78

2003-04 Second Team
MGHCA All-State 36 25 61

Totals 312

2001 State Tournament Semi-Finals:
Freshman Kristina Bunker scored the game's only goal as Blaine defeated South St. Paul 1-0

Kristina as a
ninth-grader in
the 2000 State Tournament championship
game.

A Final Tribute

Mpls Star-Tribune, February 17, 2001

Blaine's Jody Horak is the best goalie in the state. Teammate Tiffany Hagge might be an Olympian in the near future. Where does that leave Bengals freshman phenom Kristina Bunker? "How does the 2006 Olympics sound?" Blaine coach Marci Bydlon said. "I'm not kidding. She's that good, but she's just too young right now."

Four times MGHCA All-State

Blaine's all-time leading career scorer with 312 pts

A three-time all-metro player and one of the fastest players
in the state. Mpls Star-Tribune, Feb 2004