Ana Carolina Boghossian

Ana Carolina Boghossian Cordovil (born around 1997) plays both ice and inline hockey for Brazil and also works as a sports administrator. She has suited up for the national teams in both disciplines and sits on the Technical Committee of the Brazilian Ice Sports Federation (CBDG), helping to build women’s ice hockey in the country.

She started skating on ice at age six, which is unusual in Brazil, where most players begin with inline hockey because ice rinks are scarce. Growing up in Rio de Janeiro near a mall rink in Barra da Tijuca, she picked up basic skating there and started playing hockey at nine. Her interest deepened when she tagged along to her brother’s Mad Parrots team practices in 2005. She trained at that rink until it shut down in 2012, then focused on inline hockey.

In Rio, coach Geralaldo Cardoso kept ice hockey alive by running programs that bounced between small rinks, eventually leading to early tournaments like the Rio–São Paulo Challenge. Boghossian couldn’t play in that event because of eligibility rules, so she helped set up a separate women’s competition—the first time female players got to experience an ice hockey tournament. There she met Sonia Casanova and her daughters Anita and Renata, who later became key figures in Brazilian and Latin American ice hockey.

At seventeen, in 2014, she moved to the U.S. to attend Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, planning to return to Brazil after her degree to help grow the sport. As a senior, she played on Bentley’s first women’s club ice hockey team during the 2018–19 season in ACHA Division II, and also worked as an operations assistant for the Boston Pride. At Bentley, she helped with athletics marketing and video production. She graduated in 2019 with a degree in Creative Industries and minors in Marketing and Sports Management, then settled in Boston, working as a marketing coordinator for a digital printing company while playing recreational hockey.

In 2014, she represented Brazil at the FIRS Inline Hockey World Championships in Toulouse, France.

At the 2015 Pan-American Ice Hockey Championship in Mexico, she was one of only four Brazilian players who could afford to travel. To field a team of ten, the Brazilian federation got permission to add six Mexican players, so the squad competed as a Brazilian Team rather than a full national team.