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Jacklyn "Jackie" Crum Friesen (born August 4, 1983) is a Canadian ice hockey coach, currently serving as an assistant coach with the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference of the NCAA Division I. A retired forward, her professional career was played in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Playing career
Crum played four years of college ice hockey with the Wisconsin Baders during the 2001–02 season to the 2004–05 season. Across 136 games, she amassed 87 points on 53 goals and 34 assists, and was a four-year letterwinner. She was named to the WCHA All-Academic Team in 2003 and served as an alternate captain in the 2004–05 season.

She was a member of the Canadian women's national ice hockey development team (also called the U22 or under-22 team) during 2001 to 2004 and contributed to Canada's victories at the 2003 Air Canada Cup and 2004 Air Canada Cup.

Her first professional contract was signed in the Leistungsklasse A (LKA), the elite ice hockey league in Switzerland, with DSC Oberthurgau for the 2006–07 season. Crum joined a roster that featured American defenceman and fellow NCAA-product Jill McInnis, Finnish Olympian Petra Vaarakallio, German Olympian Maritta Becker, and under-18 players Laura Benz, Sara Benz, Rahel Michielin, Anja Stiefel, Monika Waidacher, and Nina Waidacher, all of whom would go on to represent Switzerland at the Olympics. DSC Oberthurgau finished third in the regular season before being knocked out of the playoff semifinals by EV Zug.

After one season in Switzerland, Crum relocated to Prague and signed with the women's team of HC Slavia Praha, which was active in both the Elite Women's Hockey League (EWHL) and the Czech Women's 1. Liga, the premier Czech national ice hockey league (renamed Women's Extraliga in 2017). She joined two other Canadians, defenceman Chelsea Heywood and goaltender Sara Hearn, on a skilled team that counted among its ranks several Czech national team players, including Eva Holešová (captain of Slavia) and Lucie Manhartová, Slovak Olympian Petra Jurčová, and future Czech Olympians Pavlína Horálková and Denisa Křížová. In the 2006–07 EWHL season, Crum centred an ever-changing line, which variously featured wingers, on and led the team and ranked sixth in the league in scoring, notching 34 points in 20 games while her 21 goals tied for fourth best in the league. Her commanding play contributed to HC Slavia Praha securing the EWHL Championship title in 2008, becoming the first Czech club to do so. HC Slavia Praha were also the dominant force in the 2007–08 Women's 1. Liga season, during which Crum centred an ever-changing line that variously featured wingers Miroslava Kroutilová, Kamila Nosáľová, Tereza Šťastná *** and concluded the season with their second consecutive Czech Championship victory. Crum tallied 13 goals and 11 assists in the Group A ten-game qualification, with her 24 points ranking second on the team and third of all skaters in the group.

There were some significant teammate changes ahead of the 2008–09 season, as Slovak Olympian Martina Veličková replaced compatriot Jurčová and two Canadian skaters, forward Jenifer Creary and defenceman Arielle Schade, were added while goaltender Hearn departed.

Coaching career
Friesen's first coaching experience was as an undergraduate assistant with the Badgers. During this time, she was a member of the 2006 National Championship team.

After playing professionally in Switzerland and the Czech Republic, Crum was hired by the Badgers to assist interim head coach Tracey DeKeyser during the 2009–10 season while head coach Mark Johnson took a leave of absence in order to coach the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Friesen was hired to a full-time position in 2010 after Johnson's return.

Personal life
Crum graduated with a B.S. in kinesiology and physical education from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006.

She and Tim Crum were married in 2016 and have two children.