Rachel Llanes (born April 29, 1991), also known by the Chinese name Lin Ni (), is an American

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player and coach. She has served as strength and conditioning coach of the

San Jose Barracuda The San Jose Barracuda are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California. They are the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s San Jose Sharks. The team has played its home games at Tech CU Are ...

since the

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. As a member of the Chinese national ice hockey team, she participated in the

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and two

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Divisiom I tournaments. Llanes previously played with the

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and Kunlun Red Star WIH of the

Canadian Women's Hockey League The Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL; ) was a women's ice hockey league. Established in 2007 as a Canadian women's Senior ice hockey, senior league in the Greater Toronto Area, Montreal, and Ottawa, the league expanded into Alberta (2011) and ...

(CWHL), the

Boston Pride The Boston Pride was a professional women's ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was one of the four charter franchises of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). The Pride played at Warrior Ice Arena, which is also the practice fac ...

of the

National Women's Hockey League The Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) was a women's professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada that operated from March 2015 until June 2023. The league was established in 2015 as the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), com ...

(NWHL; renamed PHF in 2021), and the KRS Vanke Rays of the

Zhenskaya Hockey League The Zhenskaya Hockey League or ZhHL (), officially called the Women's Hockey League (WHL), is a professional ice hockey league in Russia, currently comprising eight teams. The league is also known as the PariMatch Women's Hockey League for sponso ...

(ZhHL). She is the only player to have won a championship in the CWHL, the NWHL, and the ZhHL.

Playing career

Llanes began playing hockey in her early teen years and played with the San Jose Jr. Sharks girls' travel team. She played

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ice hockey with the

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from 2009 through 2013.

CWHL

Llanes played for the

in the CWHL, winning the

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with the team in

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

NWHL

, Llanes joined the

for the inaugural NWHL season, winning the

Isobel Cup The Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy Cup, often shortened to Isobel Cup, is the championship trophy that was awarded annually to the now defunct Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) playoff winner. The trophy is named after Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, th ...

with the team. In July 2016, it was announced that Llanes would continue with the team for the 2016–17 season, with a pay increase for a one-year $12,000 contract.

Return to CWHL & ZhHL

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, Llanes returned to the CWHL to sign with Kunlun Red Star (KRS) in

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. She also served as the strength and conditioning coach for both KRS and the Chinese national team. She remained with the team through several significant changes, first when it merged with the Vanke Rays to become the

Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays HC Shenzhen Kunlun Red Star (), abbreviated Shenzhen KRS, is an ice hockey team in the Chinese Women's Ice Hockey League (WCIHL). They play in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China at Shenzhen Dayun Arena. The Shenzhen Kunlun Red Star were founded in 201 ...

for the 2018–19 CWHL season, and again when the team joined the ZhHL for the 2019–20 season, after the CWHL folded. In their first season as part of the ZhHL, the KRS Vanke Rays became the first non-Russian team to win the ZhHL championship and Llanes earned distinction as the first player in the history of women's ice hockey to win championships in the CWHL, the NWHL, and the ZhHL.

Personal life

Llanes was born on April 29, 1991, in

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. She is of Filipino heritage. Llanes holds a degree in

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and

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from

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male instit ...

. From 2014 to 2016, Llanes served as assistant coach to the Lady Knights ice hockey team of the

Buckingham Browne & Nichols School Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, often referred to as BB&N, is an independent school, independent co-educational day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, educating students from pre-kindergarten (called Beginners) through twelfth grade. Gr ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Llanes, Rachel 1991 births Living people American Hockey League coaches American ice hockey coaches American sportspeople of Filipino descent American women's ice hockey forwards Boston Blades players Boston Pride players Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Northeastern Huskies women's ice hockey players Northeastern University alumni Olympic ice hockey players for China Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays players 21st-century American sportswomen