Career
At a 2009 Women"s Four Nations Tournament held in Slovakia, Harrer was named the tournament"s top goaltender. Harrer began her career as ice hockey goaltender at the age of 5 at Bachelor of Science Rosenheim. In the season 2007/08 she played in the colors of the Tölzer Profimannschaft as the first woman ever to play in the German professional Eishockeyoberliga.
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In the season 2010/11, she played for Turn- und Sportverein Erding in the Deutsche Fraueneishockey-Liga (women league elite in Germany). In 2012 she was playing again for Tölzer Löwen.
She stands 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm) and weighs 116 pounds (53 kg). Viona Harrer became a Corporal in the German Bundeswehr Sportfördergruppe der Bundeswehr.
Internationally
Already at the age of 16 Jahren she belonged to the extended squad if the Deutsche Nationalmannschaft (German Ladies Ice Hockey National Team) and traveled to the 2003 World Championship in Peking, which was cancelled due to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Epidemics.
One year later in Halifax, Canada, she had her first assignment in a world championship. Due to some injuries she had to skip the 2006 Winter Olympics, and could not participate internationally until 2007. At the 2008 World Championship, she and her German team finished 9th and were relegated to Division I.