JYP Naiset

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JYP Naiset
City	Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Finland
League	Naisten Mestis
Founded	1989 as JyP HT 1996 (1996) as JyHC
Home arena	Jyväskylän harjoitusjäähalli
Colours	Red, black, white
Owner(s)	JYP Juniorit ry
Head coach	Sheila Gagnon
Website	Official website
Franchise history
First
1989–1997	JyP HC Naiset
1997–2000	JYP Naiset
Second
1996–2004	Jyväskylän Hockey Cats
2004–2009	Cats Jyväskylä
2009–2016	JYP Naiset
Current
2016–	JYP Naiset
Championships
Finnish Championship	3 (1996–97, 1997–98, 2015–16)
Current uniform

JYP Naiset or JYP Jyväskylä Naiset is a Finnish ice hockey team in the Naisten Mestis. Their home is the Jyväskylän harjoitusjäähalli ('Jyväskylä training ice hall') in Jyväskylä, Central Finland. JYP Naiset have won the Aurora Borealis Cup three times, in 1997, 1998, and 2016.^[1]

The team is the successor of two teams: JyP Hockey Team (HT) Naiset, which existed from 1989 to 2000 and used the name JYP Naiset during the period 1997 to 2000, and Jyväskylän Hockey Cats (JyHC), which was founded in 1996 and was known as the Cats Jyväskylä during 2004 to 2009 and JYP Naiset from 2009 to present. They are the women's representative team of the ice hockey club JYP Juniorit ry and are loosely affiliated with JYP Jyväskylä of the Liiga.