Georgina Farman (born 12 February 1991) is an English
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
defender, currently playing with
Göteborg HC
Göteborg Hockey Club, abbreviated as Göteborg HC or GHC, are an ice hockey club in Angered, a borough of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborg) in southwestern Sweden. They played in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL), the top Swedish women's hockey ...
of the
Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) and internationally with
Team GB
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. She is the first British player to play in the
SDHL
The Swedish Women's Hockey League ( sv, Svenska damhockeyligan), abbreviated SDHL, is the elite league for women's ice hockey in Sweden. It was established in 2007 as the by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and was renamed prior to the 2016†...
.
Career
Having grown up in Hull, Farman began playing for the Sheffield Shadows in the top flight of British women's hockey by the age of 14.
In 2013, she left the UK to move to Sweden, to play for
IF Norrköping in
Damettan. After scoring 37 points in 17 games with the club, she was signed by
Linköping HC ahead of the 2014-15 Riksserien season.
References
External links
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1991 births
Living people
English women's ice hockey defencemen
Göteborg HC players
Linköping HC Dam players
Brynäs IF Dam players
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