Brooke Tatum Hendrix (born May 6, 1993) is an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who plays as a defender for

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in the

Women's Super League The Women's Super League (WSL), currently known as the Barclays Women's Super League (BWSL) for sponsorship reasons, is the highest league of women's football in England. Established in 2010, it is run by the Football Association and features t ...

College career

Hendrix played

college soccer College soccer is played by teams composed of soccer players who are enrolled in colleges and universities. It is very prominent in United States, Japan, South Korea, Canada, and as well as in South Africa and the Philippines. The United Kingd ...

Southern Miss The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's, ma ...

from 2011 to 2014.

Club career

In 2016 Hendrix attended trials in the Netherlands with

SC Heerenveen Sportclub Heerenveen (; West Frisian: Sportklub It Hearrenfean) is a Dutch football club from Heerenveen. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top level of football in the Netherlands. History Sportclub Heerenveen was founded on 20 July ...

and

AFC Ajax Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the , the top tier in Dutch football. Historically, Ajax (named after the l ...

, but was not contracted by either team. Instead she played in the summer season with

Atlanta Silverbacks The Atlanta Silverbacks FC were an American professional soccer club based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1998 as Atlanta Ruckus, the club played in many leagues over the years before folding after the 2015 season. The team played its home game ...

and ended 2016 in Scotland with

Glasgow Rangers Rangers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the Govan district of Glasgow which plays in the Scottish Premiership. Although not its official name, it is often referred to as Glasgow Rangers outside Scotland. The fou ...

. Keen to keep playing when the Scottish season ended, she signed for Swiss club FC Staad in January 2017. Hendrix represented

Fylkir Íþróttafélagið Fylkir is a multi-sport club in Árbær, in the eastern part of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. It features departments in football, handball, volleyball, gymnastics and karate. Kit The Fylkir official home kit is combi ...

in the

2017 Úrvalsdeild The 2017 Úrvalsdeild karla, also known as ''Pepsi-deild karla'' for sponsorship reasons, was the 106th season of top-flight Icelandic football. Twelve teams contested the league, including the defending champions FH, who won their eighth leag ...

, then joined

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

ahead of the

2017–18 Serie A The 2017–18 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 116th season of top-tier Italian football, the 86th in a round-robin tournament and the 8th since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. ...

season. With the ''Biancoazzurre'' she was a runner-up in the league and the cup and played in the

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

. She signed for English

FA WSL The Women's Super League (WSL), currently known as the Barclays Women's Super League (BWSL) for sponsorship reasons, is the highest league of women's football in England. Established in 2010, it is run by the Football Association and features t ...

club

West Ham West Ham is an area in East London, located east of Charing Cross in the west of the modern London Borough of Newham. The area, which lies immediately to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea, was originally an ancien ...

in July 2018. Hendrix was acquired by

Racing Louisville Racing Louisville Football Club is a National Women's Soccer League team based in Louisville, Kentucky. It began playing in 2021 at Lynn Family Stadium. The team is owned by Soccer Holdings LLC, which also owns Louisville City FC of the USL Cham ...

in December 2020. In February 2022 Hendrix signed for reigning

A-League Women A-League Women (known as the Liberty A-League for sponsorship reasons), formerly the W-League, is the top-division women's soccer league in Australia. The W-League was established in 2008 by Football Australia (then known as Football Federatio ...

Champions

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory e ...

. Hendrix arrival at the Victory signalled a turnaround in their fortunes. She scored on debut in a 1-0 over the Newcastle Jets and dramatically changed a leaky defence. Prior to the Grand Final, Victory lost just two of eight games since her arrival, conceding 0.9 goals per game as opposed to the average of 2.2 goals per game conceded in the six games prior. Victory were crowned Women's A-League Champions on March 27, 2022 after beating Sydney FC in the Grand Final. On 21 July 2022,

announced the signing of Hendrix from

on a two-year contract.

References

External links

Southern Miss bio
* 1993 births Living people People from Coweta County, Georgia Sportspeople from the Atlanta metropolitan area Soccer players from Georgia (U.S. state) American women's soccer players Women's association football defenders Southern Miss Golden Eagles women's soccer players Atlanta Silverbacks Women players Rangers W.F.C. players Brooke Hendrix A.C.F. Brescia Calcio Femminile players West Ham United F.C. Women players Washington Spirit players Melbourne Victory FC (A-League Women) players Women's Super League players Serie A (women's football) players American expatriate women's soccer players American expatriate sportspeople in Italy American expatriate sportspeople in Scotland American expatriate sportspeople in England American expatriate sportspeople in Iceland American expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Expatriate women's footballers in Scotland Expatriate women's footballers in England Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland Expatriate women's footballers in Switzerland National Women's Soccer League players Racing Louisville FC players {{US-women-footy-bio-stub