Anna Meixner is an Austrian ice hockey forward, currently playing with Brynäs IF Dam in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (; SDHL) and the Austrian national team. A four-time

European Women's Hockey League The European Women's Hockey League, abbreviated EWHL, is an international ice hockey league. Created as the Elite Women's Hockey League in 2004 by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the EWHL comprises clubs from several countries in ...

(EWHL) champion, she is the second highest all-time scorer in EHV Sabres Vienna history and the fourth highest scorer all-time for Austria.

Playing career

Meixner grew up playing on boys' teams of EK Zeller Eisbären (EKZ) in her hometown of Zell am See. When she turned 16,

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regulations prevented her from playing on a boys' team any longer and, because EKZ did not have any teams for women or girls, she moved to Salzburg to play with DEC Salzburg in the Austrian Women's Ice Hockey Bundesliga (DEBL; ). She then moved to Vienna at age 17 to play for the women's team EHV Sabres Vienna in the European Women's Hockey League. At the age of 22, she left Austria to sign with

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in the SDHL. She would score 16 points in 17 games of the

2016–17 SDHL season The 2016–17 SDHL season was the tenth season of the Swedish Women's Hockey League. The season began in September 2016 and ended in March 2017. It was the first season the league was known under the SDHL name, having changed from Riksserien the p ...

, as the club made it to the finals of the SDHL playoffs. Following the season with HV71, Meixner returned to the EHV Sabres In May 2020, she announced her return to Sweden to play for Brynäs IF. She started the

2020–21 SDHL season The 2020–21 SDHL season was the 14th season of the Swedish Women's Hockey League ( sv, Svenska damhockeyligan; SDHL). The season began on 12 September 2020 and concluded on 26 February 2021. All ten teams were able to complete a full 36-game r ...

strongly, scoring six goals in the first five games, as Brynäs became the last remaining undefeated team in the league, and winning the first Goal of the Week award for the season.

International

Meixner took part in the

2012 Winter Youth Olympics The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games (german: Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2012), officially known as the I Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG), were an international multi-sport event for youths that took place in Innsbruck, Austria, on 13–22 J ...

and won a silver medal with Austria in the women's ice hockey tournament.

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* * * Living people 1994 births Austrian expatriate ice hockey people Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Austrian ice hockey forwards Austrian women's ice hockey players Brynäs IF (women) players European Women's Hockey League players HV71 (women) players Ice hockey players at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics People from Zell am See Sportspeople from Salzburg (state) Women's ice hockey forwards {{icehockey-bio-stub