Danica Joelle Wu (born August 13, 1992) is a Canadian

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who currently plays for German

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Retrieved March 7, 2020. (German) and played for

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(collegiately) and for the Laval Comets in the W-League and is also a member of the

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Early life

Ohio State University

;As a freshman in 2010 * played 24 matches, started in 21 matches * scored two goals and made 2 assists * Big Ten All-Freshman team * Ohio State University Scholar-Athlete. ;As a sophomore in 2011 * started 22 matches * scored 2 goals, and made 4 assists * second team All-Big Ten * All-Great Lakes Region * Academic All-Big Ten * Ohio State University Scholar-Athlete. ; As a junior in 2012 * played 12 games after missing the start of the season playing for Canada at the U-20 Women's World Cup and the final six games with a broken leg. * first team All-Big Ten * Academic All-Big Ten * Ohio State University Scholar-Athlete.

Youth playing career

Wu captained Alberta provincial team in Canada Summer Games and was selected to the all-star team during those games. She won a bronze medal with Canada's U17 team at the 2008

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Women's Under-17 Championship, and was nominated Canadian U-17 player of the year in 2007 and 2008. She won a silver medal with the U20 team at the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Championship, and was nominated Canadian U-20 player of the year in 2012. Wu played in all three group-stage matches team Canada played in

2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 6th edition of the tournament. The tournament was played in Japan from 19 August to 8 September, with sixteen national football soccer teams and mark the first hosting of a FIFA women's football tourna ...

. Noted by the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Technical Study Group as "playmaker with great vision, good ball recovery and distribution skills, hard-working player in defence and attack".

International

Wu made her debut for the

on June 2, 2013, against the

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, at BMO Field in

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. The match was referred to as a rematch of a 2012 Olympics semi-final match.

Personal

Wu speaks English and Cantonese. Her father was born in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

while her mother was born in

Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

. She grew up participating in skiing, snowboarding, taekwondo, hockey and swimming. Wu attended

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

beginning in 2010, and has graduated.

References

External links

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OhioStateBuckeyes.com – Danica Wu

Laval Cometes – Danica Wu
1992 births Living people Canadian people of Hong Kong descent Canadian sportspeople of Chinese descent Women's association football midfielders Canadian expatriate women's soccer players Canadian women's soccer players Canada women's international soccer players Soccer players from Edmonton MSV Duisburg (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Ohio State Buckeyes women's soccer players Frauen-Bundesliga players Ottawa Fury (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Laval Comets players {{Canada-women-footy-bio-stub