Brett Elizabeth Maron (born June 2, 1986) is an American

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goalkeeper.

Collegiate career

Maron played college soccer for

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where she earned honors as SoccerBuzz First Team All-Northeast Region and NSCAA Third Team All-Northeast Region in 2006 and twice as Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Defensive Player of the Year and MAAC Goalkeeper of the Year in 2005 and 2006. She backstopped the

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to the 2005 MAAC Tournament championship and a berth in the 2005 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. During her four-year career, Maron posted 34 wins, which is third all-time in program history. She finished second in school history with 24 shutouts, falling short by 0.5 shutouts, having played in the NCAA rules era of not splitting shutouts between keepers. Maron played 6,911 minutes in her career, with a goals-against average of 1.11. She recorded 376 saves, a dozen short of the school record in that category as well.

Professional career

Maron began her professional soccer career with SoccerPlus Connecticut of the Women's Premier Soccer League in 2007. She then played for Afturelding FC of the Icelandic Women's Premier League (

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) in 2008 where she was named to the mid-season Top Eleven and named the Best Foreign Player and Best Goalkeeper by the league. She then moved to Kristianstads DFF of the Swedish Women's Premier League (

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) in 2009. Maron signed with the Atlanta Beat of Women's Professional Soccer on February 9, 2010. In 2011, she played for

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. As Anna Felicitas Sarholz was injured and couldn't play for the second half of the season in the

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Bundesliga,

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signed Maron in January 2012 for the rest of the season. She and Potsdam however ended her contract mutually when the Women's Professional Soccer folded and goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher returned to Potsdam. Maron instead signed for

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in Iceland's Úrvalsdeild. Following the end of the season she returned to Kristiantads DFF three years later.

Education

Maron received her bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Sociology from

in 2008. During her senior year, inspired by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus and the

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, Maron and eight other Fairfield students started "Sustainable Equity for Women", a

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maron, Brett 1986 births Living people Atlanta Beat (WPS) players MagicJack (WPS) players Fairfield Stags women's soccer players American expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland Valur (men's football) players People from Billerica, Massachusetts Kristianstads DFF players Damallsvenskan players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden American expatriate sportspeople in Sweden American women's soccer players Women's association football goalkeepers Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts Women's Professional Soccer players