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Lilli Friis-Hansen

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Lilli Friis-Hansen
Born (2000-01-27) 27 January 2000 (age 24)
Lyngby, Denmark
Height 163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 55 kg (121 lb; 8 st 9 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Right
NCAA team
Former teams
RPI Engineers
Herlev IK
IC Gentofte
National team  Denmark
Playing career 2012–present
A person in a Denmark ice hockey kit stands on the ice
Lilli Friis-Hansen plays for Denmark during a match against Japan on April 16, 2017. The match took place in Graz, Austria during the group stage of the International Ice Hockey Federation’s 2017 Women’s World Championship, Division 1.

Lilli Pearl Friis-Hansen (born 27 January 2000) is a Danish ice hockey player and member of the Danish national ice hockey team, currently playing with the RPI Engineers women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of the NCAA Division I.

Friis-Hansen represented Denmark in the Division I Group A tournaments of the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and at the Top Division tournament in 2021.[1] As a junior player with the Danish national under-18 team, she participated in the Division I Qualification tournament of the IIHF Women's U18 World Championship in 2015, the Division I tournament in 2016, and the Division I Group B tournaments in 2017 and 2018. She was named best forward of the 2017 tournament by the directorate and, in 2018, she served as team captain and led the tournament with a +12 plus–minus.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ "Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: DEN - Denmark". IIHF. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ "2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship Div I Group B – Best Players Selected by the Directorate" (PDF). IIHF. 14 January 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  3. ^ "2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship Div I Group B – Plus-Minus Leaders" (PDF). IIHF. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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