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Alexandra "Szasza" Huszák (born 18 June 1995) is a Hungarian ice hockey player and member of the Hungarian national team. She plays in the European Women's Hockey League (EWHL) with MAC Budapest. She is the Hungarian national team's all-time leading goal scorer.

Playing career
Huszák began playing in the youth ice hockey department of Újpesti TE (UTE) around age eight. She debuted in the Jégkorong női OB I bajnokság (lit. 'Ice hockey women's National Championship 1 championship', shortened to Női OB I bajnokság or OB I), the elite national championship league in Hungary, with UTE-Marilyn Budapest (UTE's representative women's team) in 2007–08. She played five games in her first season, ranking second on the team for scoring at age 12.

In the following season, she played on both UTE-Marilyn and Marilyn II, the newly created UTE under-18 (U18) women's team, both of which competed in the Női OB I bajnokság. She was the league's leading scorer in the 2008–09 season, notching a combined total of 110 points between the two teams, won the 2009 Hungarian Championship with UTE-Marilyn, and was named the 2009 Hungarian Women's Ice Hockey Player of the Year. In 2009–10, she again topped the league scoring chart and captured the 2010 Hungarian Championship with UTE-Marilyn.

She joined the junior department of the Budapest Stars (Budapesti Sztárok SE) in 2010, however, the club did not yet have a women's team and she played the Női OB I bajnokság season on loan with the representative women's team of MTK Budapest. With MTK, she won the 2011 Hungarian Championship and ranked second in the league for scoring, with 61 points (two points behind teammate Alexandra Rónai), while her 41 goals led all players.

The Budapest Stars made their Női OB I bajnokság debut in 2011 and Huszák led the team to a Hungarian Championship victory in their inaugural season, once again topping the league in scoring. The Stars also participated in the first round of the 2011–12 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup, where Huszák scored 6 of the team’s 9 goals in the tournament, including a hat-trick against the EHV Sabres. During the 2011–12 season, three players from the Budapest Stars women's team – Fanni Gasparics, Jekatyerina Maszlova, and Huszák – also played with the Budapest Stars U18 team in the U18 Bajnokság, the premier Hungarian men's under-18 league. Across thirteen games with the Budapest Stars U18, Huszák scored 4 goals and an assist.

Ahead of the 2012–13 season, she switched both her junior and women’s team clubs, moving to the junior ice hockey department of Vasas SC to join Újpesti-Vasas U18 B, one of Vasas' two teams playing in the U18 Bajnokság. On the Újpesti-Vasas U18 B roster, Huszák was joined by fellow Hungarian women's national team players Fanni Gasparics, Zsófia Jókai Szilágyi, and Franciska Kiss-Simon, the only other women on a team that also featured future Hungarian men's national team players Rajmund Bukor and Martin Sági, and future Serbian men's national team players Uroš Bjelogrlić and Andrej Zwick. In the 2012–13 U18 Bajnokság season, she played eleven games and tallied 6 points (3+3).

On the women’s side, Huszák joined the women's team of KMH Budapest and played five games of the 2012–13 season in the Elite Women's Hockey League (EWHL), scoring 5 goals and an assist. She also played with the women’s team of Vasas HC in the 2013 Női OB I bajnokság playoffs, posting 4 goals in the championship finals as Vasas HC swept Marilyn Budapest to claim the Hungarian Championship title.

Russia
In August 2013, Huszák, Fanni Gasparics, and Franciska Kiss-Simon signed professional contracts in the Russian Women's Hockey League (RWHL) with Fakel Chelyabinsk, where they would play alongside experienced Olympians, including Yekaterina Ananina, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Alexandra Vafina, and Lyubov Vafina. Huszák was a revelation in her rookie season, leading the team and ranking eighth of all skaters in the league for scoring, with 41 goals and 31 assists in forty games. Following the 2013–14 season, the team was acquired by Traktor Chelyabinsk and renamed Belye Medveditsy. The change sparked the departure of many of the team’s top Russian players but Huszák was undaunted and continued to post impressive statistics in her sophomore RWHL season; her 24 goals and 38 points in 32 games ranked tenth in the league and second on the team, behind Gasparics, in the 2014–15 RWHL season.

Major changes impacted women's ice hockey in Russia ahead of the 2015–16 season, as Belye Medveditsy folded and a new league, the Zhenskaya Hockey League, was created through the collaboration of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia and Kontinental Hockey League and replaced the RWHL. Gasparics, Huszák, and Kiss-Simon were forced to sign with new teams and the three players, who had all played together for four or more seasons, went in three different directions. Gasparics signed with Agidel Ufa and, while both Huszák and Kiss-Simon began the season with SKIF Nizhny Novgorod, Huszák played only two games with the club before signing with Arktik-Universitet Ukhta. In her two-game stint with SKIF, she notched a goal and 2 assists.

With Arktik-Universitet, Huszák centred the top line alongside Karina Verkhovtseva and teenage phenom Fanuza Kadirova. Unable to rival the star-studed lineups of several other ZhHL teams, the team struggled throughout the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons, twice finishing in sixth place. Despite the relatively poor performance of the team overall, Arktik-Universitet's top line was an offensive powerhouse and both Huszák and Kadirova ranked among the top-ten scorers in the league during both seasons.

EWHL
Huszák returned to Hungary and rejoined both the Hungarian national team and KMH Budapest in 2017. Her return to the EWHL was an immediate success – she led all KMH players and ranked fourth in the league for points at the end of the season, after amassing 21 goals and 33 points in fourteen games, and was named to the 2017–18 EWHL All-Star Team. KMH Budapest capped the season with an EWHL Super Cup victory and earned bronze medals in the 2018 EWHL Championship, becoming the first Hungarian team to win the Super Cup or medal in the EWHL.

Both Gasparics and Kiss-Simon left their ZhHL teams and signed with KMH Budapest for the 2017–18 season and their arrival heralded the start of a golden age for KMH. With Gasparics and Huszák the team would go on to win With the addition of Gasparics to the first line, Huszák adapted


 * EWHL
 * EWHL Champion: 2018–19, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
 * EWHL All-Star Team: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22
 * Top Point Scorer: 2021–22
 * Top Goal Scorer: 2020–21, 2021–22

International play

 * 2012 WW18 D1
 * Best Forward
 * most goals, assists, and points
 * 2012 and 2013 WW D2A
 * top goal scorer
 * Best Forward
 * injured knee late in training camp for 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship
 * top scorer for Hungary in the 2022 OGQ
 * scored Hungary's only goal against Czechia


 * wrist injury requiring a surgery in February 2023, was thought unable to play at 2023 WW

Personal life
Huszák was born 18 June 1995 in Budapest, Hungary.