At his best, Oskari Vuorio attended two schools at the same time and played hockey.
Oskari Vuorio started hockey at the age of four in Jäähonga, Espoo JANI KORPELA
A recent student and bronze medalist at the World Championships for Little Lions Oskari Vuorio, 18, aims next to a university in the United States. He graduated from Haukilahti High School in Espoo with a convincing average of 9.85.
– In the USA, I look at the high school diploma course grades, so that was why I had a lot of motivation to invest in the courses, Vuorio says.
In his undergraduate exams, he wrote in his mother tongue, long mathematics, English, chemistry, and biology. In the past, he moved from fifth grade directly to middle school, so he did all this with his peers.
The young man has clear tones for the future. In the autumn, he will begin his studies at Aalto University School of Economics. In addition, he continues to play hockey in the A-Juniors of the Jokers.
However, the real goal is to get to connect the school and the puddle on the U.S. East Coast NCAA University Disc.
Korona cut off
Oskari Vuorio was a member of the Little Lions World Championship bronze team last spring. Pasi Mennander
Vuorio already spent his first year of high school in the United States at a school in South Kent. There he played for a year on the parent academy team.
– I had played well in a junior tournament in France a year earlier. After the games, a representative from South Kent came to talk to me about school and scholarship, after which I ended up there.
South Kent is a private boarding school. The scholarship covered the costs of the school.
– I looked at the Finns Ruben Rafkin had played there before, Vuorio recalls.
In the United States, school and hockey went hand in hand more than in Finland, but the corona pandemic made learning completely new in the spring.
The US school was completely closed while Vuorio was on a spring break in Finland.
He found himself attending two schools in Finland at the same time. In the morning he did Finnish school assignments, during the day he trained and in the evening he attended distance lectures at the Yankee school.
– I wanted to attend the US school year until the end. Since I was in Finland, I decided to start studying in Finnish high school at the same time. The US courses did not go directly to Finnish high school.
From Espoo to the world
Born into a sports family, Vuorio started hockey at the age of four at the Ice Hockey School in Espoo in the footsteps of his big brother. As a child, a multi-talented young national team player has practiced various sports such as football, golf, tennis and scaffolding.
As a puck junior, he watched a lot of national matches. Vuorio especially remembers following Teemu Selänntä. Today, he keeps a special eye on the Lions World Cup team Sakari Mannista and Mikael Granlundia.
Enjoying himself as a centerpiece and winger, Vuorio describes himself as a good skater with game skills and passing skills.
Jäähonga’s breeder took part in the World Championships for under-18s in the spring and in the European Youth Winter Olympic Festival in December.
– We had a really united team that was nice to play with. We played these three national team years with pretty much the same players, so everyone was a familiar guy, Vuorio says.
He started his season in the A-Juniors’ Championship series in Kiekko-Espoo and switched to a local junior A-juniors in the middle of the season.
The mountain is of age for an NHL booking ceremony this summer.
– I’m not going to set expectations for myself. I have tried to play as well as possible throughout the season. Nice, if any team wants me, Vuorio sums up.
The top goal of the mountain is to get to play hockey sometimes as a professional. You must, of course, finish school first.
Oskari Vuorio receives a white hat from Haukilahti High School. JANI KORPELA