Akane Hosoyamada

Akane Hosoyamada
Hosoyamada in 2017
Born (1992-03-09) 9 March 1992 (age 32)[1]
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 59 kg (130 lb; 9 st 4 lb)
Position Defence
Shoots Right
WJIHL team
Former teams		 DK Peregrine
Syracuse Orange
Calgary Inferno
National team  Japan
Playing career 2010–present

Akane Hosoyamada (Japanese: 細山田 茜, Hepburn: Hosoyamada Akane, born 9 March 1992) is a Japanese-Canadian ice hockey player and alternate captain of the Japanese national team.

Playing career

Hosoyamada began playing hockey at the age of five.[2]

College

She played college ice hockey with the Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey program from 2010 to 2015. In her second season, she sustained an injury during the Orange's eighth game that kept her from playong for the remainder of the season. The limited number if games played during the 2011–12 season made her eligible to play a fifth season as a "redshirt senior."[3] Across five seasons with the program, she appeared in 151 games, the second-most games played in program history, and notched the program's fifth-most points by a defenseman, with ten goals and 51 assists. She was named to College Hockey America (CHA) All-Conference teams in her first and fifth seasons and also served as team captain for the 2014–15 season.[4][5]

Elite leagues

Hosoyamada played in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) with the Calgary Inferno during the 2016–17 season, after which she relocated to Japan. She began playing with DK Peregrine in 2018.[6]

International play

Hosoyamada began attending Japan's training camps in 2015 and started competing in 2016.[7][4] She debuted for Japan women's national ice hockey team in 2017 Asian Winter Games.[8] In the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship in Austria, she scored a hat trick against Norway in a 5–3 comeback victory for Japan.[9][10]

She competed for Japan in the 2018 Winter Olympics.[5][11][12] She assisted on the third goal in Japan's first-ever Olympic victory over combined Koreas.[citation needed]

She was part of the team for the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship in Finland.[13]

Hosoyamada made her second Olympic appearance in the 2022 Winter Olympics.[4]

Personal life

Hosoyamada was born to father Manabu and mother Yoko in Banff, Alberta, Canada.[7]

She attended Syracuse University and graduated in 2015 with a degree in health and exercise science.[2]

References

  1. ^ "NBC Olympics: Akane Hosoyamada". www.nbcolympics.com. NBC Olympic broadcasts. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b Restuccio, Jonah; Maresca, Lisa (1 February 2022). "Gold Medal Goals". Syracuse University. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  3. ^ "2014-15 Women's Ice Hockey Roster: 2 Akane Hosoyamada". Syracuse University Athletics. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Bambini, Cole (1 February 2022). "Syracuse alumna Akane Hosoyamada prepares for 2nd Olympic appearance". The Daily Orange. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  5. ^ a b Gallagher, Jack (1 February 2018). "Return to roots helps Akane Hosoyamada realize an Olympic dream". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Player Profile: Akane Hosoyamada". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Japan's Women's Hockey team eye next step". WAVY-TV. 8 February 2018. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  8. ^ Gallagher, Jack (20 February 2017). "Smile Japan grinds past South Korea at Asian Winter Games". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Game detail: 18 Apr 2017, Japan - Norway". European Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  10. ^ "Game Summary (JAP–NOR)" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 November 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  11. ^ Mink, Nate (1 February 2018). "2018 Olympics: Former SU hockey player competing for Japan". Syracuse Post-Standard. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Athlete Profile: Akane HOSOYAMADA". PyeongChang2018.com. PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 21 April 2018.
  13. ^ "女子世界選手権 日本代表メンバー決定". IIHF. 22 March 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.