Anna Fairman

{{Short description|American ice hockey player (born 2000)}}

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| birth_place = Troy, Michigan, United States

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| position = Defense

| shoots = Right

| league = NCAA

| team = LIU Sharks

| former_teams = KRS Vanke Rays
Robert Morris Colonials

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| ntl_team = CHN

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{{Infobox Chinese|title=Fei Anna|headercolor=#F8F9FA|t=費安娜|s=费安娜|p=Fèi Ānnà|y=Fai Ōnnóh}}

Anna Fairman (born October 13, 2000), also known by the Chinese name Fei Anna ({{Lang-zh|s=费 安娜|p=Fèi Ānnà}}), is an American ice hockey defenceman, currently playing with the LIU Sharks women's ice hockey program in the New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) conference of the NCAA Division I.

As a member of the Chinese women's national ice hockey team, she competed in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.{{Cite web|url=https://results.beijing2022.cn/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/ice-hockey/athlete-profile-n1154485-anna-fei.htm|title=Anna FEI Ice Hockey - Beijing 2022 Olympics|website=results.beijing2022.cn|access-date=February 13, 2022|archive-date=February 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213014044/https://results.beijing2022.cn/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/ice-hockey/athlete-profile-n1154485-anna-fei.htm|url-status=dead}}

Playing career

Fairman was a three-time state champion in Michigan and won two silver medals while competing in the under-19 US nationals in 2018 and 2019. She began her college ice hockey career with the Robert Morris Colonials women's ice hockey program of Robert Morris University in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://rmucolonials.com/sports/womens-ice-hockey/roster/anna-fairman/7374|title=Anna Fairman - Women's Ice Hockey|website=Robert Morris University Athletics}}

She started playing professional ice hockey in 2021, joining KRS Vanke Rays. She was a member of the Chinese team at the 2022 Winter Olympics.{{Cite web|url=https://colonialsportsnetwork.com/57191/sports/fcw-anna-fairman/|title=#FormerColonialWatch: Anna Fairman selected to Chinese national hockey team | Colonial Sports Network|first=Michael|last=Deemer|date=January 27, 2022}} She went viral on TikTok during the Olympic games for posting videos documenting her time in the Olympic village.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/olympics/2022/02/06/olympic-athletes-are-jumping-on-tiktok-trends-to-provide-tours-of-their-rooms-at-beijing-2022.html|title=Olympic athletes are jumping on TikTok trends to provide tours of their rooms at Beijing 2022|first=Simran|last=Singh|date=February 6, 2022|via=Toronto Star}}

Ahead of the 2022–23 season, she transferred to Long Island University and joined the LIU Sharks women's ice hockey program.

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