[3] Playing on a line with 2020 Patty Kazmaier Award winner Élizabeth Giguère, she put up a career best 30 points in 28 games with the Clarkson Golden Knights.

[5] She would go on to sign her first professional contract with the Whale ahead of the 2020–21 NWHL season, opting not to pursue overseas opportunities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[6] She scored her first career NWHL goal in the Whale's opening game of the 2020–21 season, a 2-1 victory over the Buffalo Beauts.

She joined a roster filled with up-and-coming hockey stars, including Sophie Shirley, Kristin O'Neill, Daryl Watts, Amy Potomak, Jaime Bourbonnais, and Saroya Tinker, in addition to her future Connecticut Whale teammate, Victoria Howran.

[9] Friesen's father, Rob Friesen, played professional ice hockey in North American minor leagues, including with the Wichita Thunder of the Central Hockey League, and overseas in the Netherlands, Germany, and in the United Kingdom with the Guildford Flames.