Brittany Amanda Baxter (née Timko) (born September 5, 1985) is a Canadian retired

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player who played professionally for five different clubs and earned 132 caps with the Canadian National Team.

Club career

Baxter's first senior club team was

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. She also played on the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Universit ...

soccer team from 2003 to 2007, graduating in May 2007. She then signed for

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 ...

of Australia's newly formed W-League in October 2008, linking up with her former coach Matt Shepherd. In the first half of the 2009–10 season Baxter played in Sweden's

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

league for

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, and in the second played for

SG Essen-Schönebeck SGS Essen are a German multi-sports club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 2000 from the merger of ''VfB Borbeck'' and ''SC Grün-Weiß Schönebeck''. It is most renowned for its women's football team, which plays ...

. She left Essen-Schönebeck during the summer of 2010. Baxter was signed by the

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in the W-League on May 2, 2014.

International career

Baxter enjoyed international success at the youth level, where she played mostly as a forward. She earned the

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Golden Shoe as top scorer at the

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with seven goals in four games. Baxter won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games soccer tournament when Canada defeated

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4–3 in penalty kicks. Baxter was a member of the two Olympic Teams for Canada, in

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and

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. She won a bronze medal in

, when

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defeated

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1–0 in the bronze medal match. Baxter played in the

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2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

and

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. Baxter retired from professional soccer following the 2014 season. She finished her international career with 132 caps and 5 goals. She was honoured by Canada Soccer in a halftime ceremony during a

vs.

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friendly on November 9, 2017, alongside teammates

Chelsea Stewart Chelsea Blaine Stewart (born April 28, 1990) is a Canadian former soccer player who played as a defender for the Canada women's national soccer team. Personal Stewart was born in Denver, Colorado to a Canadian father and an Italian mother (fr ...

and

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Coaching

Since retiring from professional soccer, Baxter has moved into coaching. She is the head girls’ soccer coach at the Port Moody Soccer Association in

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Honours

* 2022:

Canada Soccer Hall of Fame The Canada Soccer Hall of Fame honours people and institutions for their contributions to Canadian soccer. It was founded in 1997 by the Ontario Soccer Association and was originally located in Vaughan, Ontario. As of 2019, the Canada Soccer Hal ...

Personal life

Baxter and her husband Sean, have two children, a son, Johnny and a daughter Zoe.

References

External links

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Bio at Melbourne Victory

Nebraska player bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baxter, Brittany 1985 births Living people Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Canadian expatriate women's soccer players Canadian women's soccer players Canada women's international soccer players Canadian people of Ukrainian descent Women's association football midfielders Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia Women's association football forwards Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic soccer players of Canada Nebraska Cornhuskers women's soccer players Soccer players from Vancouver Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women) players Melbourne Victory FC (A-League Women) players SGS Essen players Expatriate footballers in Sweden FIFA Century Club 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Olympic medalists in football Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Seattle Sounders Women players Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in football 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Damallsvenskan players Piteå IF (women) players 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games