Charmaine Elizabeth Hooper (born January 15, 1968) is a Canadian retired soccer player. A four-time winner of the Canadian Players of the Year award and member of the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame, Hooper played on the Canada women's national soccer team from 1986 to 2006. As a forward, she stood as Canada's record holder for the women's national team for appearances and goals scored when she retired.[4] Hooper competed in three FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments: 1995 in Sweden, 1999, and 2003 in the United States. At club level, Hooper played professionally in Norway, Italy, Japan, and the United States.
While at NCSU, Hooper was a student-athlete on the NC State Wolfpack women's soccer team. She set the record for most points in a season, most goals in a season, most points in a career, and most goals in a career.[6] The team was Atlantic Coast Conference champions in 1988, made it to the NCAA quarterfinals in 1987 and 1990, the semifinals in 1989, and the final in 1988.[6] She made 89 appearances and scored 58 goals for the Wolfpack and graduated with a degree in food science.[5][7] Following her career, she was inducted into the NC State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.[6]
Club career
In 1993, Hooper played for FK Donn of the Norwegian Toppserien.[8] She scored 17 goals in 13 league appearances.[9] After a short period with Lazio of Serie A, Hooper signed a professional contract with Japanese L. League club Prima Ham FC Kunoichi.[5] She was a highly valued player in Japan and returned to North America after four seasons: "There was nothing more to gain in Japan. I had won just about every award there. Plus there was the distance."[10]
She returned to the United States and played for the Rockford Dactyls and the Chicago Cobras of the USL W-League. She was inducted into the inaugural class of the United Soccer League's Hall of Fame in 2002.[2]
Hooper made 128 appearances and scored 71 goals for Canada, at one time both national records. Her international debut came on July 7, 1986 against the United States. She represented Canada at three FIFA Women's World Cups (Sweden 1995, USA 1999 and USA 2003).
In August 2006 Hooper and Christine Latham refused to attend two exhibition games against China and fell into dispute with team coach Even Pellerud. Along with a third disgruntled player, Sharolta Nonen, they publicly called for Pellerud's removal. Alleging he had pressured them to break their club contracts in order to join Vancouver Whitecaps and had tried to fix the outcome of a USL W-League play-off by releasing certain national team players but not others.[12] Pellerud suspended the players and terminated their funding. In June 2007 an arbitrator ruled in favor of the coach. Hooper's replacement as captain Christine Sinclair strongly criticized the players' actions: "They let down their teammates and since then have done nothing to rectify it. I wouldn't want them as teammates."[13]
Hooper was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in June 2012.[14] The same year in October she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary.
She is the sister of Lyndon Hooper, also a former Canadian soccer player, and Ian Hooper, the Director of Business Operations for the Ottawa Champions Baseball Club. She is from Nepean, Ontario. She married Chuck Codd in 2002, a former University soccer coach. They have a daughter.
In 2014, she and her husband were featured on the show Fixer Upper as they selected and renovated their home, which ultimately became a child care center and eventually an Airbnb.[15][16]
Career statistics
Club
These statistics are incomplete and currently represent a portion of Hooper's career.
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
↑ Frech, Scott (May 8, 2000). "Four players, four views"(PDF). Soccer America. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 12, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
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