Bryanna Ashley McCarthy (born October 13, 1991) is a Canadian professional

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 and member of the

Canada women's national soccer team The Canada women's national soccer team (french: Équipe du Canada féminine de soccer) represents Canada in international soccer competitions. They are overseen by the Canadian Soccer Association, the governing body for soccer in Canada. The ...

. She last played for German club

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in the 2. Bundesliga.

Early life

Born in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

, Ontario, McCarthy's mother was born in

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines () is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea wh ...

while her father was born in

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

. She grew up in

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playing basketball, volleyball, track, soccer and golf with her and her fathers' personal coach Karim Corringham.

West Virginia University

McCarthy attended

West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College ...

Playing career

Club career

On January 11, 2013, as part of the

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, McCarthy joined the

Western New York Flash The Western New York Flash (WNY Flash) was an American soccer club based in Elma, New York that competed in the United Women's Soccer league. They have won league championships in four different leagues: the USL W-League in 2010, Women's Profess ...

. Despite this, McCarthy only played 15 minutes for the Flash and her allocation was not picked up for the following year. In 2014, McCarthy signed with the Ottawa Fury in the W-League. She signed for German

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

club

SC Sand SC Sand is a German sport club from Willstätt, Baden-Württemberg. The club was founded on 11 August 1946 and competes in football, aerobics, judo and qigong. The club is most known for its women's football section which plays in the Bundesliga ...

in 2015, and then later for 2. Bundesliga club

International career

In 2006, McCarthy was 14 years old when she made her debut in the Canadian youth program. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 CONCACAF Women's Under-17 Championship and represented Canada at the

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in New Zealand the same year. In June 2010, she made her debut for Canada's senior team at just 18 years old. She finished fourth with Canada at the 2010 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship in Guatemala. In 2011, she finished first with Canada at the

2011 Cyprus Cup The 2011 Cyprus Women's Cup was the fourth edition of the Cyprus Women's Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Cyprus. Format The twelve invited teams were split into three groups that played a round-robin tournament. ...

. In 2012, she finished second with Canada at the 2012 Cyprus Cup.

References

External links

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Western New York Flash player profile
1991 births Living people Canadian people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent Canadian people of Jamaican descent Black Canadian women's soccer players Soccer players from Toronto Canadian women's soccer players Canada women's international soccer players USL W-League (1995–2015) players National Women's Soccer League players Western New York Flash players West Virginia Mountaineers women's soccer players Canadian expatriate women's soccer players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Women's association football defenders Ottawa Fury (women) players Toronto Lady Lynx players SC Sand players BV Cloppenburg (women) players Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany {{Canada-women-footy-bio-stub