Anna Borgqvist
Anna Borgqvist is a Swedish retired ice hockey forward and the head coach of Leksands IF 2 in the Nationella Damhockeyligan. As a member of the Sweden women's national [ice hockey team|Swedish national ice hockey team], she participated in five IIHF [Women's World Championships] and two Winter Olympic Games.
Playing career
Her club career was played across fourteen seasons in the Swedish Women's Hockey League with the Växjö Lakers, Leksands IF, Brynäs IF, and HV71. As of the conclusion of the 2022–23 [SDHL season], she holds second-place on the SDHL career penalty minutes record table, with 409 PIM, and ninth place on the all-time points table, with 338 points in 371 games.International career
As a junior player with the Swedish national under-18 team, she participated in the IIHF [World Women's U18 Championship|IIHF U18 Women's World Championships] in 2008 and 2009, including winning a bronze medal at the 2009 tournament.Borgqvist was selected for the Swedish delegation at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She played in all six games of the Ice hockey at the [2014 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament|women's ice hockey tournament], scoring two goals and adding two assists.
Borgqvist also represented Sweden at five IIHF Women's World Championship tournaments, first in 2011. She was Sweden’s leading scorer and the third-highest scorer overall at the 2015 tournament, notching five goals and three assists for eight points in four games.
The last major tournament of her playing career was the Ice hockey at the 2014 [Winter Olympics – Women's tournament|women's ice hockey tournament] at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. She served as one of Sweden’s alternate captains and contributed a goal and two assists in six games.