Nicole McClure
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| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Nicole Althea McClure[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 November 1989 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Jamaica, New York, United States[2] | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Sion Swifts | |||||||||||||
| Number | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2007 | East Meadow Shooting Stars | |||||||||||||
| 2003–2007 | Cardozo Judges | |||||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Hawaii Rainbow Wahine | 16 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | South Florida Bulls | 40 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2010 | Tampa Bay Hellenic | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2012 | Selfoss | 16 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | FC Neunkirch | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2013 | HK | 15 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2014 | Östersunds | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Klepp | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | F.C. Ramat HaSharon | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | Osijek | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | CSFA Ambilly | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | ŽNK Split | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | Sundsvalls DFF | 20 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2019– | Sion Swifts WFC | 18 | (1) | |||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
| 2009– | Jamaica | 22 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 September 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 October 2018 | ||||||||||||||
Nicole Althea McClure (born 16 November 1989) is an American-born Jamaican footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Northern Irish club Sion Swifts and the Jamaica women's national team.[3][4]
Early life
[edit]McClure was born in Jamaica, Queens, on the state of New York, United States.[5] Her parents hail from Jamaica, in the Caribbean.[6] She grew up playing in the Long Island Junior Soccer League (LIJSL) for the Auburndale Strikers from 1998 to 2003 and the East Meadow Shooting Stars from 2003 to ’07. With the Shooting Stars, she won the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) Girls-Under-15 State Open Cup final in 2005. Nicole also played for Eastern New York's Olympic Development Program (ODP). (AuburndaleSoccerclub.org)[7]
College career
[edit]McClure attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of South Florida.[2][5]
Club career
[edit]During her college career, McClure played for Tampa Bay Hellenic. After that, she left the United States and played exclusively for clubs in Europe and Israel.[8][9]
International career
[edit]McClure made her senior debut for Jamaica in 2009.[10] She was a key player in the first ever Jamaican qualification to a FIFA Women's World Cup (the 2019 edition). Similar to Tim Krul for the Netherlands against Costa Rica in the 2014 FIFA Men's World Cup quarter finals, McClure was brought on by Hue Menzies as a 120th-minute substitute for the penalty shootout against Panama in the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship third place play-off. She saved two of the four penalties she faced as Jamaica won 4–2.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ List of Players - Jamaica" (PDF). FIFA. 27 May 2019. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Nicole McClure". Hawaii Athletics. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ http://www.laget.se/ODFF/News/3396872/4-fragor-till-Nicole-McClure [dead link]
- ^ "Nicole McClure nova vratarka ŽNK Splita - Ženski nogometni klub Split - Blog.hr".
- ^ a b "Nicole McClure - Women's Soccer". USF Athletics.
- ^ "'Proper Guinness, good craic and lots of hills' - Reggae Girlz hero chooses Strabane for World Cup warm-up". BBC Sport. 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL". Retrieved 22 September 2023.[dead link]
- ^ "Nicole McClure nova vratarka ŽNK Splita" (in Croatian). 13 September 2017.
- ^ Nicole McClure – Israel Football Association league player details
- ^ "'Keeper Nicole Mcclure happy to give it real shot". Retrieved 22 September 2023 – via PressReader.
- ^ "Panama vs. Jamaica - 17 October 2018". Women Soccerway.
External links
[edit]- Nicole McClure at Soccerway
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- Jamaican women's footballers
- Women's association football goalkeepers
- FC Neunkirch players
- Klepp IL players
- ŽNK Split players
- ŽNK Osijek players
- Sion Swifts Ladies F.C. players
- Ligat Nashim players
- Women's Premiership (Northern Ireland) players
- Jamaica women's international footballers
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Jamaican expatriate women's footballers
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Iceland
- Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Expatriate women's footballers in Switzerland
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Norway
- Expatriate women's footballers in Norway
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Israel
- Expatriate women's footballers in Israel
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
- Expatriate women's footballers in Croatia
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in France
- Expatriate women's footballers in France
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Northern Ireland
- Expatriate women's association footballers in Northern Ireland
- People from Jamaica, Queens
- Soccer players from Queens, New York
- American women's soccer players
- Hawaii Rainbow Wahine soccer players
- South Florida Bulls women's soccer players
- African-American soccer players
- American sportspeople of Jamaican descent
- American expatriate women's soccer players
- American expatriate sportspeople in Iceland
- American expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- American expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- American expatriate sportspeople in Norway
- American expatriate sportspeople in Israel
- American expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
- American expatriate sportspeople in France
- American expatriate sportspeople in Northern Ireland
- 21st-century African-American sportswomen
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- 20th-century African-American sportswomen
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- Sundsvalls DFF players
- Elitettan players
- Tampa Bay Hellenic players