Mariah Fujimagari (born 17 April 1994) is a Canadian

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, currently an unrestricted free agent

Career

In her youth career, she was OFSAA 'AAAA' Champion 2012 and MVP, and captained the boy's U18 Maine Freeze team. She played

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with the

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program in the

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(HEA)

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of the

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during 2013 to 2017. In her third season with the university, the 2015–16 season, she was named to the Hockey East All-Academic Team. Fujimagari played for HC ŠKP Bratislava in both the

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(EWHL) and the Slovak Women's Extraliga during the 2017–18 season, leading the Extraliga in

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and

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. After just one year in

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, she signed for the

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in the

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, where she would play one season before the league folded. During her rookie season in the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; renamed PHF in 2021), Fujimagari was named to Team Dempsey for the All-Star Game, and was named the fastest skating goalie of the league. Fujimagari played the 2022–23 season in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with

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. In 2023, she signed a professional tryout agreement with the Kalamazoo Wings of the ECHL, a mid-level professional ice hockey team.

Personal life

Fujimagari was a

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until she turned 12. She has a degree in food science from the

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universities, flagshi ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fujimagari, Mariah 1994 births Living people Buffalo Beauts players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Canadian women's ice hockey goaltenders Connecticut Whale (PHF) players Ice hockey people from Ontario Maine Black Bears women's ice hockey players Sportspeople from Markham, Ontario Worcester Blades players European Women's Hockey League players