Anna Fairman
| Anna Fairman | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
October 13, 2000 Troy, Michigan, United States | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | ||
| Position | Defense | ||
| Shoots | Right | ||
| NCAA team Former teams |
LIU Sharks KRS Vanke Rays Robert Morris Colonials | ||
| National team |
 China | ||
| Playing career | 2019–present | ||
| Fei Anna | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 費安娜 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 费安娜 | ||||||||||
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Anna Fairman (born October 13, 2000), also known by the Chinese name Fei Anna (Chinese: 费 安娜; pinyin: Fèi Ānnà), is an American ice hockey defenceman, currently playing with the LIU Sharks women's ice hockey program in the New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) conference of the NCAA Division I.
As a member of the Chinese women's national ice hockey team, she competed in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[1]
Playing career
[edit]Fairman was a three-time state champion in Michigan and won two silver medals while competing in the under-19 US nationals in 2018 and 2019. She began her college ice hockey career with the Robert Morris Colonials women's ice hockey program of Robert Morris University in 2019.[2]
She started playing professional ice hockey in 2021, joining KRS Vanke Rays. She was a member of the Chinese team at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[3] She went viral on TikTok during the Olympic games for posting videos documenting her time in the Olympic village.[4]
Ahead of the 2022–23 season, she transferred to Long Island University and joined the LIU Sharks women's ice hockey program.
References
[edit]- ^ "Anna FEI Ice Hockey - Beijing 2022 Olympics". results.beijing2022.cn. Archived from the original on February 13, 2022. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
- ^ "Anna Fairman - Women's Ice Hockey". Robert Morris University Athletics.
- ^ Deemer, Michael (January 27, 2022). "#FormerColonialWatch: Anna Fairman selected to Chinese national hockey team | Colonial Sports Network".
- ^ Singh, Simran (February 6, 2022). "Olympic athletes are jumping on TikTok trends to provide tours of their rooms at Beijing 2022" – via Toronto Star.
External links
[edit]- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
- Fei Anna at Olympedia
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- 2000 births
- Living people
- American expatriate ice hockey players in China
- American women's ice hockey defensemen
- Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- LIU Sharks women's ice hockey players
- Naturalised ice hockey players
- Naturalized citizens of the People's Republic of China
- American sportswomen of Chinese descent
- Olympic ice hockey players for China
- Sportspeople from Troy, Michigan
- Robert Morris Colonials women's ice hockey players
- Ice hockey people from Oakland County, Michigan
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Asian ice hockey biography stubs
- Chinese winter sports biography stubs
- American ice hockey biography stubs