Anna Segedi (born December 19, 2000), also known by the Chinese name Zhang Xifang (), is an American

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player and member of the Chinese national ice hockey team, playing with the

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program in the

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conference of

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Playing career

Born in China, Segedi grew up in Commerce Township, Michigan, a western suburb of

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in the United States. She played

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in the Tier 1 Elite B Hockey League (T1EBHL) with Detroit-based Honeybaked 14U from 2012 to 2014 and in the T1EHL 16U league with Belle Tire Girls Minor Midget in the 2014–15 season, ranking third in the league for scoring and leading the team to the 16U national title. Her junior career was played with Belle Tire Girls 19U in the T1EHL 19U and USA Hockey Girls Tier I 19U, with whom she won the national championship title in 2017, a national championship silver medal in 2018, a national championship bronze medal in 2019, and claimed three consecutive Michigan state titles.

NCAA

Segedi joined the

program in the

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of the

as a

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in the 2019–20 season. She found success in her first month of NCAA play, scoring six goals and five assists – including a

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against

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– and was named the Women's Player of the Week for 7 October 2019 and the Women's Rookie of the Month for October 2019 by ECAC Hockey. She concluded her

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season ranked second of all St. Lawrence skaters in scoring, with 11 goals and 12 assists for 23 points in 36 games. Her sophomore season continued to build on her success and saw Segedi lead the team in scoring, with four goals and eight assists for 12 points in 13 games of the COVID-19 shorted season. She was named the February 2021 Army ROTC Player of the Month by ECAC Hockey after averaging more than a point per game across the month and recording three multi-point performances.

ZhHL

Presented with the opportunity to try out for the Chinese women's national ice hockey team at the

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, Segedi paused her

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career and signed to play professionally with the KRS Vanke Rays in the summer of 2021. The team's roster for 2021–22 comprised only players eligible to represent China at the upcoming Olympics, giving head coach

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extensive time to assess individual play before building the national team. Segedi made a convincing case for her place on the national team, scoring a hat-trick against 7.62 Voskresensk and ranking third on the team for goals (fourth for points). She was named the ZhHL Rookie of the Month in September 2021.

International play

As a teen, Segedi participated in several

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Girls U18 Development Camps. She was officially named to the Chinese roster for the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics on 28 January 2022.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Segedi, Anna 2000 births Living people American expatriate ice hockey players in China American ice hockey left wingers American sportswomen of Chinese descent American women's ice hockey forwards Chinese women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for China People from Commerce, Michigan Ice hockey people from Oakland County, Michigan St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey players Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays players 21st-century American sportswomen