Nicole McClure

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Nicole McClure
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Personal information
Full name Nicole Althea McClure [1]
Date of birth (1989-11-16) 16 November 1989 (age 34)
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
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007–2008 Hawaii Rainbow Wahine 16 (0)
2009–2011 South Florida Bulls 40 (0)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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
Representing Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
CONCACAF W Championship
Bronze medal icon.svg 2018 United States
*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]

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Early life

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

McClure attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of South Florida. [2] [5]

Club career

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

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]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Nicole McClure". Hawaii Athletics. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
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  5. 1 2 "Nicole McClure - Women's Soccer". USF Athletics.
  6. "'Proper Guinness, good craic and lots of hills' - Reggae Girlz hero chooses Strabane for World Cup warm-up". BBC Sport. 17 April 2019.
  7. "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL" . Retrieved 22 September 2023.[ dead link ]
  8. "Nicole McClure nova vratarka ŽNK Splita" (in Croatian). 13 September 2017.
  9. Nicole McClure Israel Football Association league player details
  10. "'Keeper Nicole Mcclure happy to give it real shot" . Retrieved 22 September 2023 via PressReader.
  11. "Panama vs. Jamaica - 17 October 2018". Women Soccerway.