Leanne Ganney (born 4 October 1991) is an English

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player, currently serving as

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SDE Hockey SDE Hockey are an ice hockey club in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play at Enebybergs Ishall in the Enebyberg community of Danderyd Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm. History The club was formed in 2007 from the merger o ...

in the

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(SDHL) and the national team of Great Britain (Team GB).

Playing career

At the age of 12, Ganney began playing with the Guildford Lightning in the highest division of English women's hockey. She would play with Guildford for four years, before switching to the

Bracknell Queen Bees Queen Bees IHC is a women's ice hockey club based in Slough, Berkshire, England. They play at the Slough Ice Arena, having previously played at the John Nike Leisuresport Complex in Bracknell. The club operates three teams, which compete in va ...

. In 2017, Ganney signed with SDE in

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. In her first season, she served as an assistant captain, and was named captain in 2018. In 2020, the team made the playoffs for the first time, as she put up 17 points in 36 games.

International

Ganney has made over 40 appearances with the British senior team, for whom she has served as captain since 2015. She has won three

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Division II silver medals and three bronze medals.

Career statistics

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ganney, Leanne 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Basingstoke British women's ice hockey forwards SDE Hockey players