Selma Luggin and Magdalena Luggin are sisters, and they are also the goaltending tandem for Team Austria at the Division 1A World Championships.
Few players get to suit up next to their sibling in international competition. Fewer get to share the same position. At the Division 1A World Championships in Klegenfurt, Austria, the host Austrians have a sister act in net with Selma Luggin and Magdalena Luggin.
Older sister Selma Luggin, 21, is the reigning World Championship Best Goaltender, and was also named Best Goaltender at the 2019 U-18 World Championships. She's Austria's defacto starter, and played in Austria's first game of the tournament, a 3-2 loss to Norway.
In Austria's second game of the tournment, they replaced one Luggin for another as Magdalena Luggin, 18, got her first ever start for Austria's senior national team, and did it with style making 17 saves for a shutout over South Korea.
The elder Luggin, Selma, spent the past two seasons in the SDHL, this year playing 11 games for Linkoping posting a 2.83 GAA and .912 save percentage along with two shutouts. At the end of the season, Luggin jumped to to DFEL with Memmingen where she backstopped the team to a German title posting a 1.73 GAA and .933 save percentage.
The younger Luggin, Magdlena backstopped SKN Sabres St.Pölten in the EWHL posting a 1.69 GAA and .933 save percentage in 19 games this year. Last year she was named Austria's best player at the U-18 World Championships, and the year prior helped Austria's U-18 program earn promotion from Division 1B to Division 1A.
From Wien, Austria, the sisters have played together before, but never on official IIHF ice with the Austrian logo on their jerseys.