Anna Sabina Lambertz Küller (born 22 September 1994) is a Swedish ice hockey official, retired

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player, and former member of the Swedish national ice hockey team. She played the entirety of her senior club career with

AIK IF Allmänna Idrottsklubben Ishockeyförening (abbreviated ''AIK IF'', also known as ''AIK Hockey'', often abbreviated ''AIK'' in hockey subjects), is the ice hockey department of sports club AIK based in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2014, AIK's men's ...

and served as the team's

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from 2016 until her retirement in 2022.

Playing career

Küller began playing ice hockey at the age of 3 in

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, just outside of

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. She grew up playing on mixed-gender teams until the age of nine, when an AIK coach scouted her for their girls' team. She would make her first

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appearance with AIK in 2009–10 against

Leksands IF Leksands Idrottsförening is a Swedish professional ice hockey team from the town of Leksand in the region of Dalarna. The team plays in the top-tier league, Swedish Hockey League (SHL), after succeeding through the 2019 SHL qualifiers and thus ...

, scoring her first goal on her first shot. She was named AIK captain ahead of the

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. She missed seven weeks of the 2018–19 season after suffering a broken arm before the Christmas break. She ended up scoring 11 points in 26 games that season, her lowest total in six years as the team finished in 8th in the league for the first team in its history. After scoring just one goal in her first 19 games in the

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, she scored a

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against Leksands IF in December 2020.

International

Küller made her first senior

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appearance with Sweden at the

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and competed in the

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, and

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tournaments. She scored one goal and 3 points across six games in the women’s ice hockey tournament at the

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Officiating career

Küller was encouraged by several acquaintances to consider on-ice officiating shortly after her retirement in 2022. She was quickly recruited into a program and became invested in officiating as she learned about the development curve and found "new goals to aim for." In her second season as an official, she was selected by SDHL players and coaches to receive the () as the best referee of the 2023–24 SDHL season. Alongside her work in Swedish leagues, Küller officiates for

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events. As of January 2025, she has served as a referee for the Group A tournament of the

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, the Group A tournament of the 2024 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship Division I, and the 2025 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship.

Personal life

In 2011, Küller experienced a serious health scare after she accidentally received six-times the standard adult dose of

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while being treated in hospital for a herniated disc.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuller, Sabina 1994 births Living people AIK Hockey Dam players Ice hockey people from Stockholm County Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden People from Norrtälje Swedish ice hockey officials Swedish women's ice hockey centres Youth Olympic gold medalists for Sweden 21st-century Swedish sportswomen