Akane Hosoyamada (細山田 茜, Hosoyamada Akane, born 9 March 1992) is a Japanese ice hockey player for DK Peregrine.
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Born |
(1992-03-09) 9 March 1992 (age 30)[1] Banff, Alberta, Canada | ||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb; 9 st 4 lb) | ||
Position | Defence | ||
Shoots | Right | ||
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DK Peregrine (2018–) Syracuse Orange (CHA) Calgary Inferno | ||
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Playing career | 2010–present |
Hosoyamada was born to father Manabu and mother Yoko in Banff, Alberta, Canada.[2] She began playing hockey at the age five.[3] She attended Syracuse University and graduated in 2015 with a degree in health and exercise science.[3]
At Syracuse, she played college hockey for the Syracuse Orange from 2010-15 appearing in 151 games, the second-most games, notching the program’s fifth-most points by a defenseman with 10 goals and 51 assists. Hosoyamada was named to College Hockey America's all-conference teams in her first and fifth year.[4] She also served as the team captain.[5]
Hosoyamada played for the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL)'s Calgary Inferno for the 2016-17 season, after which she relocated to Japan. She began playing for DK Peregrine in 2018.[6]
Hosoyamada began attending Japan’s training camps in 2015 and started competing in 2016 onwards.[2][4] She debuted for Japan women's national ice hockey team in 2017 Asian Winter Games.[7] In the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship in Austria, she scored a hat trick against Norway in a 5-3 comeback victory for Japan.[8][9]
She competed for Japan in the 2018 Winter Olympics.[5][10][11] She assisted on the third goal in Japan's first-ever Olympic victory over combined Koreas.
She was part of the team for the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship in Finland.[12]
Hosoyamada made her second Olympic appearance in the 2022 Winter Olympics.[4]
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