Tanja Eisenschmid (born 20 April 1993) is a German

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player and member of the German national team, playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with Djurgårdens IF Hockey Dam. She attended the

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and played four years of

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with the North Dakota Fighting Hawks women's ice hockey program during 2012 to 2016. Afterwards, she joined the independent

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beginning in the 2016–17 season. She remained with the Whitecaps when the team joined the professional

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(NWHL) in the 2018–19 season. She was also a marketing intern for the University of North Dakota's television show, Studio One. Eisenschmid represented Germany in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

, and

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. Her younger brother, Markus Eisenschmid, and younger sister, Nicola Eisenschmid, are also German national team ice hockey players.

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* * 1993 births Living people Djurgårdens IF Hockey (women) players German expatriate ice hockey people German expatriate sportspeople in Sweden German expatriate sportspeople in the United States German women's ice hockey defencemen Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics Minnesota Whitecaps players North Dakota Fighting Hawks women's ice hockey players Olympic ice hockey players for Germany Sportspeople from Kaufbeuren Ice hockey people from Swabia (Bavaria) 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-icehockey-bio-stub