Anne Schleper
{{short description|American ice hockey player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
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| position = Defence
| shoots = Left
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 10
| weight_lb = 170
| league = NWHL
| team = Buffalo Beauts
| sex = f
| ntl_team = USA
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|1|30}}
| birth_place = St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.
| career_start = 2008
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{{MedalSport|Women's ice hockey}}
{{MedalCountry|{{USA}}}}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalSilver|2014 Sochi|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|IIHF World Women's Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2011 Switzerland|Team}}
{{MedalGold|2013 Canada|Team}}
{{MedalGold|2015 Sweden|Team}}
{{MedalSilver|2012 United States|Team}}
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Anne Kathryn Schleper (born January 30, 1990) is an American women's ice hockey player for the Buffalo Beauts of the National Women's Hockey League. She played college hockey for the Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey program and made her debut for the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship. She was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Playing career
From April 4 to 12, 2011, she was one of 30 players that took part in a selection / training camp. She was named to the final roster that participated at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship.{{Cite web|url=http://pressrepublican.com/0300_sports/x1041534858/Steadman-makes-US-Womens-National-Team|title=Local player makes U.S. Women's hockey squad|date=13 April 2011 |access-date=2011-04-18|archive-date=2011-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414125644/http://pressrepublican.com/0300_sports/x1041534858/Steadman-makes-US-Womens-National-Team|url-status=live}}
Awards and honors
- WCHA co-Offensive Players of the Week (Week of October 27, 2010)[http://www.wcha.com/women/presarch/201010/oct27wpw.php Archived copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130122342/http://wcha.com/women/presarch/201010/oct27wpw.php |date=2010-11-30 }}
- 2010–11 WCHA First Team{{cite web |url=http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205108360&DB_OEM_ID=8400 |title=Kessel Named League's Rookie; Raty/Schelper First Team - Gophersports.com - Official Web Site of University of Minnesota Athletics |website=www.gophersports.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711113253/http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205108360&DB_OEM_ID=8400 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}
- 2010–11 WCHA All-Academic Team
- 2011 Big Ten Outstanding Sportsmanship Award[http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/wis/genrel/auto_pdf/2010-11_Big_Ten_Sportsmanship.pdf 2010-2011 Big Ten Sportsmanship] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112185305/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/wis/genrel/auto_pdf/2010-11_Big_Ten_Sportsmanship.pdf |date=2012-11-12 }}
- 2012 Big Ten Medal of Honor{{Cite web |url=http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/060712aaa.html |title=Pachuta and Schleper Earn Big Ten Medal of Honor - GOPHERSPORTS.COM - the Official Athletic Site of the Minnesota Gophers |access-date=2012-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904125909/http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/060712aaa.html |archive-date=2012-09-04 |url-status=dead }}
Personal life
Schleper is a Christian. Schleper has spoken about her faith saying, "Any time you get in the athletic environment, it’s challenging as a Christian. It’s easy to have an ‘it’s about me’ attitude. That's why it's important to be around other Christians who can lift you up and pray for you. It's good to stay connected, and that's where I’ve seen those Bible studies at camps be so huge. God is opening the eyes of teammates who I would never have thought would come. He's building it into something bigger and better."{{cite web|title=USA Women's Hockey Player Using Platform to Share Faith |url=https://www.athletesinaction.org/news/usa-women-s-hockey-player-using-platform-to-share-faith |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221234216/https://www.athletesinaction.org/news/usa-women-s-hockey-player-using-platform-to-share-faith |archivedate=2014-02-21 }}
On January 27, 2017, Schleper married MLB outfielder Denard Span.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Giants-Denard-Span-center-fielder-actor-10941162.php|title=Giants' Denard Span marries Olympian after adorable proposal|last=Schulman|first=Henry|date=February 17, 2017|website=SFGate.com|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=February 26, 2017|archive-date=February 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226083554/http://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Giants-Denard-Span-center-fielder-actor-10941162.php|url-status=live}} They welcomed their first child, son DJ, in October 2017.
References
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Category:American women's ice hockey defensemen
Category:Buffalo Beauts players
Category:Ice hockey players from Minnesota
Category:Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Category:Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey players
Category:Olympic silver medalists for the United States in ice hockey
Category:Sportspeople from St. Cloud, Minnesota
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
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