Brittany Baxter

Brittany Baxter
Personal information
Full name Brittany Amanda Baxter
Date of birth (1985-09-05) September 5, 1985
Place of birth Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position Midfielder / Forward
Club information
Current team
 Seattle Sounders Women
Number 17
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2006 Nebraska Cornhuskers 71 (41)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2006 Vancouver Whitecaps 17 (4)
2008–2009 Melbourne Victory 9 (2)
2009 Piteå IF 7 (0)
2010 SG Essen-Schönebeck 0 (0)
2014– Seattle Sounders Women 3 (0)
National team‡
2002–2004 Canada U-19 32 (16)
2002– Canada 132 (5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 26, 2015
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of November 26, 2014

Brittany Amanda Baxter (née Timko) (born September 5, 1985)[1] is a Canadian soccer player currently playing for the Seattle Sounders Women of the W-League.

Career

Baxter's first senior club team was Vancouver Whitecaps Women. She also played on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln soccer team from 2003 to 2007, graduating in May 2007. She then signed for Melbourne Victory of Australia's newly formed W-League in October 2008,[2] linking up with her former coach Matt Shepherd.[3] In the first half of the 2009–10 season Baxter played in Sweden's Damallsvenskan league for Piteå IF,[4] and in the second played for SG Essen-Schönebeck.[5] She left Essen-Schönebeck during the summer of 2010.[6] Baxter was signed by the Seattle Sounders Women on May 2, 2014[7]

International career

Baxter has been capped over 100 times[8] by Canada, scoring four times. However, at the U-19 level where she played more often as a forward, Baxter found significant scoring success. She earned the Adidas Golden Shoe as top scorer at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship with seven goals in four games.

Baxter won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games soccer tournament when Canada defeated Brazil 4–3 in penalty kicks. Baxter was also a member of the Canada women's national soccer team that competed in the 2012 Olympics. She won a bronze medal when Canada defeated France 1–0 on August 9, 2012 in the bronze medal match.

References

  1. ↑ "Athlete Detail Page – Brittany Baxter". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Victory Women on track for Westfield W-League debut". Melbourne Victory. October 14, 2008. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Victory in Melbourne » melbourne victory".
  4. ↑ "Sidan kan inte hittas".
  5. ↑ "Wechselübersicht Frauenfußball Winter 2010".
  6. ↑ "Wechselbörse – Saison 2010/11". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.
  7. ↑ "Sounders Sign Brittany Baxter from Canada National Team – Seattle Sounders Women".
  8. ↑ Canada Soccer, Baxter makes 100th appearance for Canada Archived November 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., June 7, 2011.
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